Immediately after buying a domain, do you register for G Suite for a custom@domain email? What’s your alternative?
See title, thanks! Trying to prioritize my Immediate task list after buying the domain
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See title, thanks! Trying to prioritize my Immediate task list after buying the domain
Zoho is free and freaking good. Also it doesnt do the nonsense of mining every email you send and receive.
Love Zoho, been using it for years for my projects :D
Same, it's free and does the job.
+1. Free and not Google which is a bonus
I've done gsuite and zoho, but now sticking to https://improvmx.com/
Service is outstanding, and free tier is ideal for projects that will likely go nowhere anyway :)
It is ridiculous that we are paying premium for a mail service due to the mx feature they ship with.
I think improvmx (I don't know any other) are solving that abuse. You pay (or even free tier) for the mx facility, which routes emails in and out to a 3rd party mail server (really the two shouldn't tie together)
Thank you for the tip, the service looks really good!
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Consider supporting them with a paid subscription if you intended to spend the $15, they charge less than that for higher uptime and performance.
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Yandex is free fully functional email provider up to 1000 mailboxes per domain for free. It's very solid and major gmail, g suite, search, maps, etc. alternative in Russia: https://connect.yandex.com/pdd
Nice try KGB!
In all seriousness, I’m not sure if could trust Yandex with my data.
I am using Yandex too, if you have so sensitive data is better pay couple bucks an trust CIA ;)
I have one main gsuite account where i host all side projects.
So every time i get a new domain i create an alias email under that suite.
I do this too, you can create aliases for addresses:
[email protected]
can have an alias
[email protected]
mail sent to alias will get sent to main
you can also set up a domain alias
which will allow mail sent to
[email protected]
and
[email protected]
to end up in your [email protected] inbox.
You can effectively pay for one gsuite address and forward multiple emails from multiple domains.
Yeah, it's easy to setup, cost efficient and scalable. You could create a new user under the suite just for that side project (own inbox, permissions etc...)
Buying domains can have different meanings in my case... So to make this short: I have a MAIN account that handles different context.
Business, Branding, Idea, personal. Between my MAIN accounts, I will always follow a structure to activate emails, Users, etc. But if it's a name i grabbed for an "idea", then I may not setup anything. I guess my lame point is that there is never a NEED to create MX records or verify dns and create users for each name. BUT, for myself, I must have the (Zoho, Google...) Accounts bought and paid for, and make sure I understand HOW to handle each scenario without help.
Side point just to point out how each individual may have different needs... If my wife's friend wants to take his auto-shop online but doesn't want to "waste money" , I will get suckered into building a quick landing page . So I buy a low-cost TLD, use a template from another project and swap out photos and text. But when I launch it, I use "Netlify" because it removes a couple pain points like submitting forms or adding https, and allows me to forward any contact info to a simple gmail.
This is long, but it's a good question. When I first started figuring out all this, forums weren't so readily available.
For any "work" I tend to not need to buy the name as it's handled by the company beforehand, plus I'm usually hired to enhance a project that is already in production.
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I'm glad you caught that 🤪 I woke up super early today and decided to start contributing to this site. I went "deeeep" on like 5 topics lol.
Nope, I registered with gsuite 5 years ago, after buying a domain I add it as an alias to the same account for free.
Setup email through my web hosting and use Thunderbird. I also use domain forwarding through my hosting if I want to validate various accounts, just have them setup as "[email protected]" and forward to my "[email protected]"
I use my custom domain with Gmail, same as G suite but without paying, works super smooth, I have everything in one place, and now with google one, I can have 100gb with drive and everything from g suite but free and better because you can have multiple domains.
Fastmail is A+
I use Fastmail for my personal domain. Haven’t gone through the process of setting up a business domain. I like it! A little behind gmail, but they don’t compromise on privacy and I like that.
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Yes, I still use G Suite and highly recommend it! :)
We switched to Fastmail recently because I think it's important to support smaller companies wherever there's a viable product to the big ones (plus, you know, the whole Google privacy thing).
I've seen others mentioning Zoho. It definitely has a bigger suite of apps (Fastmail is only mail, calendar and file storage), but for us that's perfect because we don't need more.
Protonmail. You have to pay a fee, about $50 USD a year. I am confident with their services. Both their online webapp, and their mobile app are pretty good. I am definitely happy for the quality of service they offer.
I loooove and use Zoho Mail. And it's free.
Get GSuite Basic for $5 a month and use tool like Woodpecker for great inboxing.
Zoho is way better
I don't have any experience with Zoho (all I know is their logo bugs the heck outta me). I explained this to a client yesterday who received an offer from his ISP for "professional email service": Go with Google. Yes, it's $6 per month, per user, but it's the most solid. If you plan on doing any SMTP stuff with your site down the road, you're gonna want that powered by Google. Save yourself the future headache!
If the domain is of any importance to you, make sure to disable transfers (domains are locked by default within the first 60 days of a purchase/transfer, aka "Registrar lock" or "Client Transfer Prohibited"), and set up a 2FA on your account first (preferably hardware- or software-based, instead of SMS).
Also, if you plan to host something business-critical on that domain, I'd recommend changing the default name servers (NS records) provided by your registrar (unless you buy your domain from a provider who cares about the DNS).
With regard to email, don't forget to set the SPF and DKIM records (bonus points for DMARC).
If you're looking for a quick solution without having a full email solution, I just use email forwarding so I can share an email address with people or use in public places. You may end up never using the domain you buy in the long run or switch the name. Don't waste more time/money than you need to.
Unless this is your first "professional" looking email address doing an email solution could be a decent idea. I have one Gsuite email address for one main domain & then the rest are email forwards for other domains.
My main priority is to have an “admin@domain” email address I can use to register all my other services off of, such as zapier, etc.
Priority 2 - I will eventually need a hello or support @ domain to handle incoming support emails/forms.
My only hang up is that g suite is, I think, $6/account. So that’s immediately a $12/mo expense to have the 2 email addresses. The nice thing is that it’s all contained in one ecosystem and very easy to manage. I also registered the domain on google domains so it’s all under one roof, so to speak. Your thoughts? Do it all under one “admin” email address for now until support needs to move to another?
Don't waste any money for GSuite emails for a bunch of emails like that. You can just use the email forwarding feature right inside Google Domains. Go to your domain, go to the Email section & you'll find a section for Email forwarding. You can do any alias @ example.com & have it forward to whatever email you want to receive emails. No need to pay for GSuite inboxes for now. People email my support emails all the time & they go to my other email address.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this will only work for receiving emails to @domain.com.
But for sending mails out of this domain email address then you also need an SMTP server. Where do you get this? The DNS provider doesn't provide it.
Google Domains is only available to select countries.
Thanks this is really helpful, I will def take a look in a bit. What’s the purpose of G Suite then if the free forwarding works so great for small # of addresses? 🤔
+1 for Zoho. I like that they let you get up and running immediately for free and when you do need to pay the pricing scales better ($1 per user vs. $6 for up to 10 users).
Zoho also has some cool features (some that I've not used). They have the ability to chat with co-workers about an email so you can collaborate on a reply without forwarding it around within the company. They also have the ability to apply an account signature so when you setup the email on your phone the signature is already setup or when you hire a new employee you can set, and lock, the employees signature.
Full disclosure, no affiliation with Zoho and I gain nothing by writing this.
+1 for Zoho. Their free tier is great.
Plug: their client on the Mac doesn’t support multiple simultaneous accounts. I made one that does: https://fadel.io/mailbox-for-zoho
I've used zoho free level in the past when I'm to cheap to pay for google
If you're not technical you can just setup a contact link on https://contact.do
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Through google domains, what email is "free to set up" with the domain? Maybe I missed that part. I did sign up for gsuite already, but it's free for the first month.
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Could you explain the forwarding to me in more detail? Don’t you still need to create an email address?
So if your site was unstoppable, you wouldn’t have a “hello@unstoppabledotcom”, you’d be using [email protected]?
My main priority is to have an “admin@domain” email address I can use to register all my other services off of, such as zapier, etc.
Priority 2 - I will eventually need a hello or support @ domain to handle incoming support emails/forms
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but then you send from "[email protected]" and not from "[email protected]", right? Isn't it that users expect to receive email from [email protected]?
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So why do you need mailgun for? you already have the custom mail address, so you don't need any forwarding.
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