I have a small business and I am not that technically sound hence looking for an email address like [email protected] without owning a domain. Is there a way?

By free i dont mean something like zohomail but something that dosent require you own website you can just get a free domain like [email protected]?

I have a small business. I’m not interested in creating a website. Facebook is all I need. Was just wondering if there was a free service that allows you to creat a custom domain. Thanks for any help.

For example, [email protected].

Is this possible? I don't have a website or anything like that, but I want to make an email with a custom domain.

Where would I look to get this done?

TIA

I have a domain but I would wanna avoid paying 15 euros per month to google just to make an email. What do you recommend me?

Hello!

I am struggling to find what I need, and I am thinking that actually the service I am looking for does not exist for free.

I am setting up a business and am looking for a free email and calendar hosting service that allow me to also use my custom domain.

Above that, it would be nice to have the ability to use third-party apps like Gmail, Outlook or Mail (iOS), but mainly Gmail because that's where my personal email is.

I think this is a lot to ask for free and couldn't find a service yet that has all these things together. So far I came accross:

Hostinger: free, up to 100 accounts, but it seems to not have the calendar functionality. If anyone knows how to "solve" this, I would appreciate.

Zoho: free, up to 5 accounts, has email and calendar, but I can't connect it to third-party apps (correct me if I'm wrong).

Thanks! Would love to hear your inputs.

Hey all,

I used to use Zoho mail to have an email inbox for my domain. But it seems like their privacy-invasive practices involve reading my emails and so forth. Same with Gmail ofc.

I need a mailbox that...

• is free

• provides an email for my domain

• can have multiple inboxes, like [email protected] or [email protected]

• is privacy focused, not harvesting my data like Zoho or Gmail

Any ideas? Does such a thing exist?

If you have a domain name for your business like site-name.com, you can use a custom email ID for sending and receiving emails for free. There's 2 parts to it:

1. Forward emails sent to a custom email like [email protected] to a personal email ID like [email protected]

2. Send emails from your personal email ID but the recipient sees the email as coming from [email protected].

Create custom forwarding address

Most domain registrars allow free email forwarding i.e. if you bought a domain from say GoDaddy or NameCheap, you can get emails to [email protected] forwarded to your personal email address. I use GMail for my personal email because I get all the features of GSuite for free (Email, Drive, Calendar etc.). I use namesilo for my domain because it's the cheapest domain registrar and has tons of templates (the UI is a bit ugly but it works much better!).

So I've added instructions on using namesilo and GMail. The actual UI and specific values of MX records may change according to the domain registrar you use but the steps remain the same which are:

1. Add the right MX records in the DNS management section of your domain provider

2. Configure the custom email ID and forwarding address you want to use

Detailed steps:

• Update DNS records Go to the Domain Console for Domain Manager in namesilo and click on the 'Update' link next to DNS records

https://i.imgur.com/IM0jBYn.png

• Add MX records

Find the Email Forwarding template and click "Apply Template"

https://i.imgur.com/KSTy0wv.png

• Add email forwarding

Finally, go to email forwarding and follow instructions on this page reproduced below

You can configure email forwarding for your domain by going to the Domain Manager page and then clicking the envelope icon under the "Options" column.

https://i.imgur.com/aHOmY8s.png

To create a new email forward, simply scroll down to the "Add/Change an Email Forward" box. In the "Email" field enter in the email forward you would like to create. Let's say you want to use [email protected], then enter your-name in the empty text box.

https://i.imgur.com/Pzx7d2F.png

It may take some time for the changes to propagate. It should not be more than 24 hours usually. You can send an email to your custom email ID an hour after setting up email forwarding to test.

IMPORTANT: Only after you have email forwarding working, you can configure GMail to send emails with your custom email ID.

"Send email as" in GMail

Setting up an alias in GMail allows you to use gmail to send emails as [email protected]. i.e. Your recipients will see this email ID and not the GMail ID. It is a simple workaround to get a free custom email ID!

1. Setup Gmail's Two-Factor Authentication

2. Create an app password. When prompted for Select the app and device you want to generate the app password for:

   • Select Mail under the drop-down for Select app

   • Select Other under the drop-down for Select device

   • When prompted for text input, enter a descriptive name like "site-name" and click "Generate" https://i.imgur.com/ZWNX2u8.png

3. Copy the password that is automatically generated and save it somewhere for now

4. Go to Gmail and under Settings > Accounts and Import > Send mail as, click Add another email address

5. When prompted for Name, enter the name that you want your email to be seen as "From" (e.g. Firstname Lastname)

6. When prompted for Email address, enter the email address with the custom domain you used above (e.g. [email protected])

7. Click Next Step to proceed https://i.imgur.com/enDCkzC.png

8. When prompted for SMTP Server, enter smtp.gmail.com and leave the port as 587

9. When prompted for Username, enter the portion of your Gmail address without the @gmail.com part (e.g. username if my email is [email protected])

10. When prompted for Password, paste from your clipboard the password you generated in step 3 above

11. Leave the radio button checked to Secured connection using TLS

12. Click Add Account to proceed https://i.imgur.com/9ZrKIGd.png

13. At this point, you will be asked for a verification code. Keep this window open.

14. Open Gmail in a new window and wait for your verification email to arrive (you will receive a verification code that confirms you are the owner of the email address you are attempting to "Send Mail As")

15. Once it arrives, copy and paste the verification code at the prompt you received in step 13

16. Once you've done that, go back to the email and click the link to "confirm the request". You need to do this step and the previous step for the email to be correctly configured. https://i.imgur.com/O0Kot3q.png

Done!

Source for the instructions

It may seem like a lot of steps but it won't take much time. I was able to do this in under an hour.

I have a domain for my website, but the domain host does not have reliable domain-based email. Are there any good free options? I've seen some people talk about mail.com but I haven't seen enough information to make the leap. Any thoughts appreciated.

Hey everyone!

I know this is probably not all that relevant to self-hosting, but I'm not too sure where else to ask this.

So basically, I recently bought myself a custom email domain for my website, but I want to be able to have a custom email with it.

I initially set up Cloudflare email forwarding, but the issue I have with that is I cannot reply to emails I receive through it. I tried to set up a custom email server, but ultimately it was beyond my skill level.

ProtonMail is my main email provider, but I only have the free plan. Although I am thinking about upgrading, I am wondering if there are any email services out there that have custom domain support for free. I know there are a lot of cheap services out there, like MXroute, but I have decided that if I am going to pay for something, I am just going to get a ProtonMail Plus plan. However, I do want to look into all the free options.

If there are ones that support IMAP/SMTP, then that is a plus, but if a free service doesn't offer that, then it doesn't bother me.

I have heard a fair amount of talk about Zoho Mail, but it doesn't seem to have a free plan as far as I have looked. Skiff would have been an amazing option, but it doesn't exist anymore.

Are there any free services out there that match what I am looking for?

So I have researched about self hosting your own email server such as Mailcow but it seems pretty divided on whether or not you should do it due emails potentially not getting delivered due to spam filters and such. So I'm kinda not interested in self hosting so I'm wondering what is the next best option to get my own email ideally for free but maybe settle for really cheap?

Edit: I have my own domain already.

Edit2: Thank you all! I have my domain with Cloudflare so I have tried their email routing but would like to be able to send from it too. I'll check out some other suggestions.

Edit3: Wow this got a lot of replies. Again thanks all for the recommendations. I haven't had a chance to actually check any out yet (busy weekend) but I will get to it.

Edit4: So I've had a little time to look at some of the options and it looks like maybe Zoho, onepoundemail or PurelyMail. They are both fairly cheap and around the same price. Anyone know how they compare?

Edit5: I ended up paying for Zoho for $12/year. So far it's doing everything I wanted and more. Very happy with it! Thank you all!!!

Hey folks,

I’m looking to ditch my GMail in favor of something more privacy oriented, like ProtonMail.

I’m wondering if I should do it right and buy custom domain address and use it with the email provider?

I would be happy to listen for pros and cons.

Thanks!

Anyone know how can i make custom mail domain and is it free f.e i dont want [email protected] i want [email protected]

I am currently using Microsoft 365 with a custom domain for email service. I would like to move away from M365 because of cost (i.e., I get it at no cost today but will have to start paying for it later next year). I am looking for email service recommendations where I can have a custom domain (e.g., [email protected]). It doesn't have to be free but something a lot more affordable (for personal/family use) is desired. I am aware of Google Workspace but am looking for other options as well. Thanks!

I have a website with SquareSpace and I’m signed up for the Basic plan at almost $200/year. Domain name was purchased with SquareSpace. In order to have Mailerlite integration, I have to upgrade my website to the Core plan, which will bring it up to about $270/year. Okay, fine, I’ve accepted that.

Now it seems to be HEAVILY recommended that I get a custom email address (ex. [email protected]) for deliverability purposes. With Google Workspace, which is what SquareSpace recommends, that is ANOTHER $86/year minimum. For pretty much nothing. Mailerlite is my EMS and SquareSpace is providing hosting and website building services, but $86/year for simply my own name that I already paid for as an email address is something I don’t want to pay for. That’s something that should have already been included in one of the other services I’m paying for.

My point isn’t to come here and vent, though. Rather, I would like to know if there are any other services in which I could create a custom email address using my SquareSpace domain and use with Mailerlite for either cheap or completely free. Again, not to sound cheap, but that $86/year isn’t even for any actual services; Mailerlite is my EMS. I would just like to have an email address that isn’t a gmail account.

For context, I have a month-old website. It’s an author website, though I still haven’t published any books yet. Waiting on my book cover commission.

Tl;dr I would like any recommendations for a provider of cheap custom email addresses in which I could use my existing SquareSpace domain as the email domain.