Mailboxes, clients, forwarding and deliverability.
Creating mailboxes on your domain, connecting them to Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail or a phone, and — the part most guides skip — making sure what you send actually arrives. Deliverability is mostly DNS: SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that prove your mail is really yours. Those are covered here too.
What host-provided email and Microsoft 365 each do well, so you can pick based on what your team actually needs.
How many emails can I send per hour?Why sending limits exist on shared hosting mailboxes, and what to do if legitimate mail is being held back by one.
How to change an email account passwordHow to reset the password on an email account, and why every connected device needs the new one entered afterwards.
How to create a catch-all email addressHow to make your domain accept mail sent to any address at all, and why most domains are better off without one.
How to create an email forwarderHow to make one email address automatically forward its messages to another, without creating a separate mailbox for it.
How to cut down the spam reaching your inboxThe filtering settings and DNS records that between them reduce most of the spam a mailbox receives.
How to fix "authentication failed" in a mail clientWhat causes a mail client to reject a mailbox's login, checked from the most to the least likely cause.
How to fix email that will not sendThe most common reasons an email client refuses to send, checked in the order most likely to find the fault.
How to fix email you are not receivingA step-by-step way to find out why messages sent to your address are not arriving, from DNS to mailbox storage.
How to keep email working during a migrationThe sequence that stops email being lost or delayed while a domain and its mailboxes move to a new host.
How to make a website contact form deliver reliablyWhy contact form emails go missing more often than direct email, and the setup that reliably fixes it.
How to migrate mailboxes to a new hostThe order that keeps mail flowing while mailboxes move to a new host: create accounts, copy messages, then switch MX records.
How to recover deleted emailsWhere a deleted email actually goes before it is unrecoverable, and what to try before assuming it is lost.
How to send and receive your domain email in GmailHow to read and send domain email through Gmail's interface by linking your mailbox as another account, without moving hosting.
How to set up DKIM signingHow to enable DKIM signing for your domain and publish the selector record that lets receiving servers verify it.
How to set up email on your domainCreate a mailbox on your domain in your control panel, then connect it to a mail app using the settings your control panel provides.
How to set up your email in Apple MailHow to connect a domain mailbox to Apple Mail on macOS, including the settings that most often get typed wrong.
How to set up your email in OutlookThe exact settings and steps for adding a domain mailbox to Outlook on desktop, with IMAP recommended over POP3.
How to set up your email on AndroidStep-by-step instructions for adding a domain mailbox to an Android phone through the Gmail app.
How to set up your email on an iPhoneHow to add a domain mailbox to the iPhone Mail app so it sends and receives without missing messages.
How to set up a DMARC recordHow to write and publish a DMARC record, and why every domain should start at policy none before tightening it.
How to set up a shared mailbox for a teamTwo ways to give a team a single email address to work from, and which one suits a small team versus a larger one.
How to set up an out-of-office autoresponderHow to turn on an automatic reply for a mailbox, and the settings that stop it firing more than once per sender.
How to set up an SPF recordHow to build, publish and check an SPF record so receiving servers recognise your legitimate mail senders.
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