Using my email via SMTP outside my domain registrar?
I have had my email (myname@myname.com) for a long time. But until now I didn't really use it, and just had it auto-forwarded to my startup email address for the occasional incoming email.
But now I need to start sending from it, and therefore need SMTP access. So far I've just paid my domain registrar (123-reg) for a mailbox, and have been accessing it via a client (Airmail) that way. But 123-reg are charging me about $100 a year for the privilege.
Also, a lot of my outgoing emails so far have been going to spam, although I assume this will improve over time.
Is there a better/cheaper way of doing this?
Check this out: https://www.mail-tester.com/
You are probably missing:
For what it's worth google is the best at email, and google workspace is 6/user/month (gusite), that's 30% cheaper and you get everything else with it.
If you aren't sending that many emails and you don't care about the UI/UX as well as having these emails looking properly. You can use AWS SES.
And that's ~free, but with headaches.
Thanks!
I'd tried out the Mail Tester tool, and my email seems to pass most of the tests. I'm not sure what else to do about the spam issue.
Didn't think about using Gmail for the email. Which is stupid, really - i run my entire business through Google, so use it all day, every day for that. I'd long ago forgotten about the pricing structure.
Just gotta get my head around the TXT and CNAME records with my domain registrar (I'm not particularly techie), and I'll look at switching.
Thanks again! This is really useful.
https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html?src=sticky
Forever free plan works with custom domains, been using for many years for side projects
worth noting, it says IMAP/POP/ActiveSync not included at the free level… is it just webmail access-only?
I have been using it IMAP with Mozilla Thunderbird for quite some time. They have a guide on how to set it up here: https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/imap-access.html
Ah, didn't know Zoho could do this. Will check it out.
If you use Gmail/Gsuite for any of your other email addresses, you can use this free solution:
https://improvmx.com/
This looks good, thanks. But would it only work if my new email domain (personal) was the same as my existing domain (startup)?
Assuming your existing/startup domain is on Google/Gsuite, then yes, it's a way of:
and
I use this technique for one of my low-traffic side gig domains and find it convenient and the right price… free.
Looks like the forwarding is free, but the sending (via SMTP) costs $10. Or am i missing something?
"Upgrade to Premium for $9/m
Send emails via SMTP. Faster email delivery. Priority support. 99.99% uptime guarantee."
That only applies if your main account is not gmail.
See the last point on the home page, which leads to this guide:
https://improvmx.com/guides/send-emails-using-gmail/
Gmail already has a feature to authenticate other 'from' addresses, which I have used personally for a few years now.
Thanks @andjules. I missed that important point. Will dig deeper into it, thank you!
I use Microsoft365 for my emails I also use them for sending emails from my website via SMTP its not the cheapewt option at £3.80 a month but works well, comes with 1TB OneDrive storage as well and calendar if you need it.
I'm a big fan of their setup.
For sending transactional emails services like sendinblue are good
I might be wrong because I did this up long time ago, but I remember that when I've set my Domain's email as the sender in SiB newsletters (requires a paid SMTP option) I also needed to purchase a separate package w/ my domain registrar to allow me to send ~1K emails per month. I too was looking for ways to save some money
Yeah, I've sent a LOT of emails through SiB in the past! :-)
I'll check out MS365 for the personal one, though. Thanks!