.TR Email and URL Forwarding

Email forwarding is the redirecting of all messages received by a certain email address to another email address. There are two types this process.

1. The forwarding of copies of all messages received by an email address. For example, a copy of the emails received by your info@domainname.com.tr address will also be forwarded to your info@domainname.com. at your request. In this way, you can display the emails in both email accounts.
2. Another one is the redirecting of all messages to another email account without displaying them in the first email account. For example, an email sent to your info@domainname.com.tr address will immediately be redirected to your info2@abc.com.tr address at your request. In this way, received messages will only be displayed in your second account.

1. Log in to your METUnic account with your email and password.
2. Click the “Email Forwarding” button on the right side of your domain name under “My Domain Names” section.

“Forwarded Emails” page will be displayed as in the image above. Please, read the information below before beginning configuration.

1 is the username of the email. “info” is the username for info@domainname.com.tr.
2 is the hostname of the email. “@domainname.com.tr” is the hostname for info@domainname.com.tr.
3 is the email address to receive forwarded emails.

For example in order to forward the emails of test@newdomainname.com.tr to info@domainname.com.tr, please follow the steps:
Enter the user name of first email into box number 1. (e.g. test)
Enter the hostname of first email into box number 2. (e.g. @newdomainname.com.tr)
Enter the second email that is to receive emails into box number 3. (e.g. info@domainname.com.tr)
Click “Save” button.
The information given above are set as an example and you should enter your own email information into the related boxes.

When you fill in the boxes, all fields should be displayed in green.
If the fields are displayed with a red frame, email format is not valid.
When you click on the “Save” button, if the process is successful, “Forwarding configuration is successfully saved” will be displayed on the screen.



When forwarding configuration is completed, forwarding record will be displayed in the bottom of the page as it is in the image.
You can click on the “Edit” button to correct your faulty records.
You can click on the downwards arrow and then “Delete” button to delete your faulty records.

Email validation is done for user name, email hostname and email to be forwarded (Boxes number 1, 2 and 3). Valid format is belows:

• You can use alphanumeric characters. (e.g. 0-9, a-z)
• Phrases may start and end with numbers.
• Phrases may include . (dot) but they may not start and end with . (dot).
• Two or more dots may not be used successively in the phrases.
• Characters such as ! , #, $ , % , &, ‘ , * , +, -, / , =, ?, ^ , _ , ` `, . , { , |, } and ~ may be used in the phrases.
• Characters such as @ , \, ” , and [] may not be used in the phrases.
• An email address can be forwarded to more than one email address.
• If you try to record an already existing forwarding configuration, system gives error.

METUnic provides you with free email forwarding service.

METUnic does not store your emails but only gives you service to forward your emails.

Yes. You can get our business email service for your domain name on the Business Email page. Our hosting service is also coming soon.

Email forwarding service will not continue when the service period ends.

Forwarding may be recently configured, please be sure that the required time for update has passed. There may be some troubles about email server, please be sure that the email servers are working properly. The messages may be received by spam folder, please check the junk folder.

If there are no MX records for the forwarded domain name, it will be activated after the registration and distribution of DNS records.

Such redirects are already have a MX record for that domain name, and if redirection is done, another one will be added; consequently, this should not be done because of the confusion. Such redirects should be made through the organization where you receive email hosting.

With the forwarding process, you can use your email that begins with any username you create with the forwarding process and ends with your domain name without purchasing email hosting for your .tr domain name. However, you can only check your email info@domain.com without working with email hosting from your forwarding email and you cannot forward any messages from this email.

URL forwarding is the redirection of a domain name or a page in a domain name to another domain name or a page in another domain name. For example, you can redirect the domain name domain.com to test1.com. In this way, when you want to log in to the domain name domain.com, the site belonging to test1.com will open.

You can reach the detailed explanation in our blog guide “URL Yönlendirme Nasıl Yapılır?” (in Turkish) (opens in a new tab).

URL checks are performed for the subdomain part, the service selection part and the domain name to be forwarded. The simplest requirements are as follows:

• Each tag must be between 1-63 characters. subdomain=63 + domain name=63 characters. If there is no subdomain, only the domain can be registered as 63 characters.
• Alphanumeric characters can be used (Example: 0-9A-Z)
• Phrases can begin and end with a number.
• – (hyphen) can be used, cannot start with -, cannot end with -.
• Characters other than – (period) and – (hyphen) cannot be used.
• A URL can only be redirected once.
• You cannot redirect abc.com -> test1.com while redirecting abc.com -> test2.com. It gives the warning “This URL has been redirected before” and does not make any record.

In order to redirect the URL www.yourdomain.com, you need to create a new record in addition to the URL redirect record you have already created. In order to create the relevant record, after pressing the URL Redirection button next to your domain name, you can create your URL record in the same way after typing “www” in the Subdomain Name blank in the From THIS URL section.

301 forwarding is a permanent URL redirection. For example, a 301 redirect works if you are moving from one URL to another, merging two sites, or making changes to the URL that are not intended to be undone. It is recommended for SEO.

302 forwarding stands for temporary redirection. The forwarding you have made is considered a temporary change and is not registered.

Redirection in this way cannot be done yet, but it is planned to provide support in this area when hosting service is started. If you want to be informed about innovations/developments on this and other issues, you can follow our blog (opens in a new tab) page. In addition, you can be informed about announcements if you contact us.

Even if your URL redirect is defined, you may not be able to confirm that the service is working due to previous queries you have made through the browser you are using, because it will take a certain period of time for your browser to update its data.

During this period, you can clear your browser history and cookies, make a query through an incognito tab or on a different device to confirm the transaction.

When the service period ends, the forwarding service set up between your domain names will no longer continue.

METUnic provides “URL Forwarding” service free of charge.

If there is no A record, the forwarding can be used after the DNS record is added and this record is updated. Old and high TTL records registered in the domain name may cause the update time to be longer.