An address like [email protected] looks more professional than a free one, and it's yours: if you change providers tomorrow, the address stays the same. With a Fodenflow hosting plan you can set it up in a couple of minutes.
What you need
- An active hosting plan.
- A domain pointing to your hosting (if you haven't connected it yet, see how to connect your domain).
1. Create the mailbox
- Go to Hosting and click Manage hosting.
- Open the Email tab.
- Under Create an email address, type the Address (the part before the @, for example hello), choose the Domain and a Password of 8 to 64 characters with letters and numbers.
- Click Create email. The mailbox shows up in the Mailboxes list.
You can create as many as you like: they share your plan's space with your website files. From the same list you can change the password, pause a mailbox or delete it.
2. Set it up on your phone or computer
It works with any email app: your phone's, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or the Gmail app. These are the settings (replace yourdomain.com with your domain):
Incoming (IMAP): mail.yourdomain.com port 993 SSL
Incoming (POP3): mail.yourdomain.com port 995 SSL
Outgoing (SMTP): mail.yourdomain.com port 465 SSL
Username: your full address ([email protected])
Password: the mailbox passwordChoose IMAP if you read email on more than one device: everything stays in sync. For the outgoing server, keep authentication on with the same username and password.
On someone else's computer? Use Webmail in the browser, from your hosting's Overview (under Advanced tools).
3. Keep your emails out of spam
- In your hosting's SSL tab, click Enable DKIM on every domain you send email from: it signs your messages so other servers know they're really yours.
- Use a different password for each mailbox. If someone gets it and sends spam, the mailbox pauses itself (the limit is under 100 emails per hour) and we let you know.
- For newsletters or bulk mailings, use an email marketing service: hosting email is meant for everyday use.