I seem to recall that Dreamhost only supplies email to domains that you have hosting (through them).

They do not supply email to domains that are simply registered.

It is possible to set up your DO droplet to be an email server/forwarder, but it can be a pain. I have one working and it has been chugging away just fine for several months now.

Whats the best way to set that up?

it can be a lot of dinkering, so go into it when you have some time. Here is one tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassassin

I think I used this tutorial:
https://www.exratione.com/2014/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-1404-postfix-dovecot-mysql/

which I like because it lets you put your users/email in a database.

Hey @sierracircle , that was right on the money. Had to adjust it so that it would forward, but that was surprisingly easy. While editing the /etc/postfix/virtual file, you put the email you want it to (instead of just the username on the server), and it works perfect. Thanks again!

Now onto the spamassassin. I dont think I’ll need dovecot since I won’t be emailing back on the server, only via an email app