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This is why you should use your own email domain so you can just shuffle it around providers as needed.
by Vanit 10y ago
This is why you should use your own email domain so you can just shuffle it around providers as needed.
- eberkund 10y agoFor most providers, using your own domain is a paid feature.
- rhinoceraptor 10y agoI pay $5 a month for Google Apps, which is completely worth it for me since finding good, unclaimed short email addresses on Gmail is not possible.
- Rumudiez 10y agoIf all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.
- grawlinson 10y agoWhere does it say that Google Domains has free GMail integration? All I'm seeing is G Suite integration for $5/month extra.
- chockablock 10y agoThey call the feature 'email forwarding': https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3251241?hl=en https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3251241?hl=en
- Rumudiez 10y agoYou have to use the Email Forwarding section in Google Domains, then set it up from within GMail. GMail Settings > Accounts and Import > Send Mail As > Add another email address you own. I remember it taking a few tries to get all the Domains info right, but I can send and receive email from any of my Google-managed domains from within GMail. You can try Googling for updated instructions if these don't still work: http://theanywhereoffice.com/digital-lifestyle/how-to-send-mail-from-your-own-domain-using-gmail-and-iphone.htm http://theanywhereoffice.com/digital-lifestyle/how-to-send-m...
- fowl2 10y agoDoes it still include your real email address in the headers?
- angry-hacker 10y agoYes it does.
- rhinoceraptor 10y agoI'm using an obscure country TLD, there's only one provider for the TLD.
- hollander 10y agoIf you can manage DNS yourself, you can set MX to Google or another provider.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoWell yes, but you can't just expect Google to accept mail for any old domain. You have to be a Google customer first.
- Vanit 10y agoIts very popular to use Zoho as a workaround for this. (1) Point your MX records at your Zoho mail (2) Forward all mail from Zoho to your personal gmail account (3) Setup a sender alias in your gmail account for your domain
- revicon 10y agoCan you still do SPF and DKIM?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoNo and that's the problem. Gmail sees your IPs instead of the originating IPs, with a negative impact on spam classification quality, and in all likelihood a negative impact on your IP reputation due to the appearance of relaying spam.
- Vanit 10y agoCurious if you've encountered this problem or if its hypothetical (not to take away from your comment, it makes sense). I've had Zoho->Gmail setup for a while and I've had no issues with false positives/negatives.
- pasbesoin 10y agoI'd be afraid of Google's control over my domain name registration. Even if they don't do anything malicious, their "wall of silence" with respect to support leaves me very apprehensive. (Some people say it's different for paid-product support, but I don't know whether this includes $12/year domain name registration -- or will so in future.)
- hollander 10y agoYou can keep registration at your preferred provider, and set DNS for MX to Google, and there you go.
- SXX 10y agoCan you please explain how exactly this going to work without Google Apps? Am I missing something?
- Vanit 10y agoYeah, you're missing the bit where you use a 3rd party to send/receive the email as a proxy for your personal gmail account, i.e. using Zoho. (1) Point your MX records at your Zoho mail (2) Forward all mail from Zoho to your personal gmail account (3) Setup a sender alias in your gmail account for your domain
- SXX 10y agoThis is way I using gmail now, but that is kind a opposite to statement in message I replied to: "set DNS for MX to Google". Currently I have to redirect to Google and Google only send from those boxes using 3rd party SMTP server. So main advantage of having trusted sender is not there.
- pasbesoin 10y agoExactly. I believe the/an ancestor was referring to getting registration through Google and taking advantage of a "free" Gmail account against that custom domain. As far as I know, if you register elsewhere and set up DNS so, you can still get one Gmail account against the domain name for "free" -- in contrast to when Google was rolling out Google Apps to the public and offered first 50, then 25, then 10 "free" Gmail accounts to a unpaid Google Apps account so configured.
- geoelectric 10y agoIf your domain provider provides forwarding email service, then with Google you can set it up as a relatively invisible alias to a regular GMail account at no charge.
- saurik 10y agoSo?
- dboreham 10y agoAmazing. To get what you want you have to spend money!
- zulln 10y agoI have used Zoho for a while now without spending a cent. Would not mind paying a few bucks for the service though, email is a such essential tool for everyone these days anyways.
- zulln 10y agoI have used Zoho for a while now without spending a cent. Would not mind paying a few bucks for the service though, email is a such essential tool for everyone these days anyways.
- newscracker 10y agoMail forwarding is also a paid feature on Yahoo. Those on the free tier cannot do it. P.S.: On the other hand, Gmail allows free IMAP/POP and free email forwarding.