In today's digital age, having a professional email address that matches your domain is crucial for building credibility and trust with your audience. However, you might be wondering how to get a custom email without the hassle and cost of hosting services. The good news is that you can set up a professional email address with your own domain for free, and you don't need hosting to do it. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to create your custom email address and start using it right away.
Let's Start🏁
So to start, we will have to use this particular service from
IMPROVMX , because their service is very straight to the point without any much hussle...
To do this we must have the following as a requirement
Requirements 🚩
- a Custom Domain name such as a .com .net .org .co etc
- a Gmail account click here to get one if you don't have one yet create My Email Account
- a website or blog (optional)
if you have the above ....then let's start....
After that you will find a display like the image below, fill in your domain name in the left column and fill in your email address from Gmail in the right column and click the button
Next you will receive an email from Improvmx, just click on the link provided then you will enter a display like the image below, and please there you can create an alias for your email.
DNS Configuration / Settings💥
Now let's configure our DNS using your domain hosting provider.... in this tutorial we are using Cloudflare so do so to follow and replicate the same step in your hosting account......
Type |
Host |
Value |
Priority |
MX | @ | mx1.improvmx.com | 10 |
Type |
Host |
Value |
Priority |
MX | @ | mx2.improvmx.com | 20 |
Type |
Host |
Value |
TXT | @ | v=spf1 include:spf.improvmx.com ~all |
Copy the above and use it in your dns settings
Now finally, click on a test button near any of the aliases to check if it works, if it does then you should get this email from improvemx
To be able to send a message directly using your Gmail ,then follow the steps here to do so.....
Sending emails using Gmail SMTP
Conclusion:🔥
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