Free Email Hosting for Linode & Akamai 2024

Learn how to setup free email hosting and forwarding for Linode & Akamai using our step by step guide.

Written by

Forward Email Team

Published

7/2/24

Time to read

Less than 5 minutes

Step 1

Go to Linode & Akamai → log in → DNS settings
→ scroll down to Step 2

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Add these records to yourdomain.com: and click Verify

Name	Type	Priority	Value
None	MX	`10`	`mx1.forwardemail.net`
None	MX	`10`	`mx2.forwardemail.net`
None	TXT	None	`forward-email=user@gmail.com`

Need a TTL value? Make it as close to 3600 (60 minutes) as possible.

Need to configure more aliases on the free plan?
See Options A to G in our FAQ