Setting up Google Mail for your domain email (you@yourdomainname.com)
So, if you read our post about New Thoughts on Your Email, and you want to send your domain email to Google, here’s step-by-step instructions on how to do it. They’ll be a video coming along soon.
If you don’t know how to access your domain email, check out this video first.
TO START FROM SCRATCH:
1. go to Google
2. menu at upper left: click on Mail
3. create an account now — this is your Google account, NOT your Gmail account
4. fill in email you’ll be forwarding, password
5. check verification at email, click on link
6. in browser (back at Google), click on My Profile
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT, START HERE:
7. click on Gmail
8. sign in with username & password you just created
9. Now you’re at the Welcome to Gmail screen. Create your Gmail account.
10. Next screen: Intro to Gmail. Click on “I’m ready, show me my account.”
11. Now you’re in Gmail. On upper right of screen, click on Settings.
12. Click on 2nd tab over, which is Accounts.
13. Click on Add another mail account.
14. User name is you@yourdomainname.com,
enter your password.
POP Server: mail.yourdomainname.com
VERY IMPORTANT! DON’T CHECK Leave a copy of retrieved message on server!
DO CHECK to have your incoming messages labeled you@yourdomainname.com.
Leave all else blank.
Click Add Account.
15. Click “Yes, I want to be able to send mail as you@yourdomainname.com.” Click Next Step.
16. Click Next Step again.
17. Click “Send verification.”
18. Check email on site for verification, click on link from Gmail.
19. Back to Settings>Accounts: When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses
– click on Reply from the same address message was sent to.
20. Test it out! Send an email from site to you@yourdomainname.com and check to see if it shows up on Gmail account. If it shows up in the Spam box, open it and then click “Not Spam.”
If that works, compose from Gmail account to you@yourdomainname.com (you should see it in the drop-down menu in the From field) and make sure that comes through with the correct return address.
21. You’re done! Now your site will be blissfully free of email storage.
March 6th, 2009at 12:39 am
Do you still need to pay for a mail server and this just downloads your mail?
How can i make google my mail server?
thanks,
scotty
March 9th, 2009at 7:09 pm
Hi Scotty,
If you have a site (which it looks like you do), you probably already have mail service included with the cost of your site. The mail server usually just stores your mail in a folder in your site’s architecture. So, by routing the mail through Google, you pay the same but aren’t have more room for your videos, blogs etc.
Hope that helps!
October 26th, 2009at 6:45 pm
What do you mean by having a “website?” Also, repeating Scotty’s question, if you don’t have a site, is there a charge??
And where will my mail be sent? To my email address through a gmail account? Or to an account that I log onto through Google?
Thanks.
Suzanne
December 9th, 2009at 8:33 am
You can have email with a site for free with the usual popular services like Yahoo or Gmail. You can buy a domain name, such as www.modowebdesign.com, through a service like GoDaddy, for about $10/year.
If you have a website, someone has to HOST it for you. HOSTING means that there is a server (i.e. a large computer) somewhere that stores the data for your website, just like your computer has your Word or other documents. A host can be anyone who offers this service such as Likoma.com, GoDaddy. HOSTING usually costs $5-$10/month. It’s like rent. But first you need to buy your domain name, which is like the address to the condo. In reality you don’t buy addresses to places you live, but in virtual reality you do.
If you have a website the mail for that website (i.e. help@modowebdesign.com) is kept on the server. If you don’t want to check it on the server, you can set up the mail to be funneled into another account, such as yahoo.com, Outlook, etc.