My .com domain was migrated from Google to Squarespace late 2023, and was recently transferred from Squarespace to porkbun a few days ago (the transfer process was just completely today). But porkbun charges additional fee for customized email hosting. However, porkbun offers free email forwarding, therefore, I have [email protected] with porkbun. Is there a way to connect [email protected] to some website and make it work as a mailbox?

Is there any decent domain registrar offering free email hosting and decent/inexpensive renewable fee?

I mean customized email with my own domain. Hopefully, the email can be added to outlook desktop app, so that I can use outlook to manage its messages.

Thanks.

Im a recent college graduate and wanting to start my own freelance branding/business in my trade. I was wondering about free email domain hosting, until start taking in more jobs and can afford to pay for one. I feel like it would give a more professional look to my cards and other marketing, does anybody know if anyone offers this sort of thing?

Hello guys. My mother is starting a business and we already have a domain but I am searching for a free hosting which there are a few ones but I noticed that none of them have the ability to host an email. The only I can do is park a domain but when I go to email section the only thing I can do is like redirect an existing email to other. No other way to create an email from the existing domain. Should I buy a hosting instead? Otherwise I have the possibility to buy only an email hosting from the domain provider. Thank you.

Just curious what people might be using for email hosting for their custom domains. This won't be my main personal email account. Mostly I want to use it for sending outbound notifications from my server so that they actually come from my custom domain rather then sending them out via my personal Gmail account.

Maybe setup a couple inbound addresses for generic stuff as well, but I could handle those via Cloudflare's Email routing beta as well.

Edit: Thanks All, ended up setting up Zoho. One thing that's disappointing with it is that the sender email needs to match the users account. So I needed to create a generic user email account for all my no-reply emails, and in theory those addresses could also receive emails. But not a deal breaker by any means.

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!!!

I bought a domain from web.com. I hosted it and pointed it's nameservers to infinityfree.com. And I made a custom email with zoho.com.

But now I need more emails. I can make more emails with cloudflare but for that I need to change domain's nameservers to cloudflare but i can't do that because I'm hosting it on infinityfree.com.

Can anyone guide me how I can achieve that or any others methods for free emails?

I also have a hosting plan with another hosting provider. There I'm hosting another domain. that plan also has emails. but I can't host another domain there. It allows only one. is there any way I can use those emails for the domain I hosted on infinityfree.com?

Sorry if it's confusing, I know it's messed up but I can't pay for hosting right now. I need totally free. Thanx :)

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.

I've just bought a domain and am looking for cheap email hosting for a short time (~1yr) until I decide on a longer term solution. Ideally I'll use my preferred email client (not a web portal). But most importantly I need to be able to reliably send email from my domain, not being flagged as spam all the time.

I was going to setup a Linux server in my home, but don't have a static IP and so no RDNS and am concerned with my emails being flagged as spam.

I saw noip hosted mail is $10 for a year, but there is not much information on what it can and can't do. Has anyone used it before? If so can I use it with my own domain without transfering my domain registrar to them?

I'm open to other options, just needs to be cheap for the time being and reliable at sending mail.

Thanks

Hi! I was looking for a way to cut costs and among other things I replaced a paid email hosting service for my custom domains with free services such as Cloudflare. I thought I'd share in case someone might be interested. Do you use a hosting service for your custom domains email? Which one?

Here's the post:

https://vitobotta.com/2022/07/26/how-to-host-email-for-custom-domains-for-free-or-almost-free/

I just registered a domain and though I am not doing anything with it right now, I would like to connect a free e-mail service to it that is preferably compatible with MS Outlook. Are there any good ones out there? Recommendations great appreciated!

Previously I've used Zoho, but they've now introduced a paid for the feature I'm after that used to be free.

I'm looking for a service that will allow me:

• Pop Access

• Email forwarding

• Catch-all for inbound

• SMTP for sending

• Domain/email verification via DNS records.

Volume is going to be low <500 emails a month.

I do have two domains but I'm happy managing them from separate accounts if the provider doesn't support multi-domains.

Looking for 2-3 emails per domain at the moment.

Gmail offers free smtp but it doesn't allow any verification so some providers receiving see that its coming from my gmail address not my custom domain.

Improv.mx offers a free catch-all service which I use for some other domains that don't require outbound.

Does anyone know of any providers that offer what Zoho used to?

Edit as solved:

As suggested by u/tjuk MailGun solved all my problems perfectly.

Hi there

I was wondering what people think is the best way to get domain hosting and a private domain email address together?

Initially Go Daddy is cheap at £21.87 (GBP) for the first year for both products but then it jumps to £90.87 a year thereafter.

Eventually, my website will be with WordPress anyway. Can they provide a private domain email address?

l am still in the business development stages so l don't want to commit too much too early (a common problem l believe). Are there any better ways around this?

Thanks everyone

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?

Hi, Everyone!

I am looking for a domain hosting platform to host my website, but not sure whom to choose. I don't have too much knowledge about it and I am looking for help from the experts.

I need custom emails or business emails from my domain. So, I just want to know, if I purchase a hosting plan then they will allow me to create custom emails with my domain? If yes then how many? if not then how do I get custom emails of my business?

Kindly help!

Quite some years ago, Google offered free customized email with domain name for free, later on Google started charging fee.

Late 2023, Google Domains was sold to Squarespace, I am in the process of moving domain from squarespace to porkbun.

Maybe I should post this question before deciding domain transfer. I am not sure if it is possible to get free or cheap customized email with my domain name?

What's your favourite free email host? I've heard about Zoho but the free tier lacks in IMAP and POP3 support. What are some better alternatives and why?

This week I saw a post here showing how you can host your email with icloud for really cheap and it got me thinking about this.

What are some self-hosted solutions for email with your own domain and what are the costs associated with them?

Also open to non-self-hosted options like the icloud one.

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.

TL;DR: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gu8FFyNY1Y9X69kHmJvkI0fLv8GaK-5B6HnQZZzo1Nw/edit?usp=sharing

Like many migrating away from Google Workspace, my main concern has been finding a new email provider for my 5 users across 3 domains. The GSuite email host alternatives with prices? thread on r/gsuite was a good starting point, but I found myself needing more information than was provided there.

I decided to record my findings in a spreadsheet covering everything I could find answers for, complete with links to the source of the information as far as possible.

It's still a work in progress, and I welcome corrections, updates, and requests. I hope you find it helpful :)