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What Is Email Forwarding?

Email Forwarding is where we create Email Forwards using your domain name, and we set them up to forward to an external email account like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or other.

With Email Forwarding we aren’t creating actual Email Accounts, and we aren’t hosting any email on our servers. With Email Forwarding we essentially map an email alias to forward to another pre-existing email account.

By not hosting email on our servers we are able to offer better website performance and security, and we are also able to allocate all storage space to web hosting rather than using precious server space and processing power for serving up email.

Email Forwarding doesn’t take up much server processing at all, and therefore helps us to provide better website performance.

By not offering true Email Accounts we are able to focus on our core business, which is:

BUILDING + HOSTING + MAINTAINING + SUPPORTING + PROMOTING.

There are plenty of good email services available like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, so we don’t need to offer our own version of email other than Email Forwarding.

Getting Started with Email Forwarding

Once we set up a new domain for you (or point your existing domain to our server) then we can set up Email Forwarding for you. We simply set up an Email Forward for each of your email addresses that you want to use.

All we need from you is the email addresses you want set up, along with the corresponding Gmail account to forward each email address to as shown in the example below.

There is no quota limit (except the quota Gmail imposes for your Gmail inbox, which is very generous), and no limit to how many emails and forwards you can set up (we set up 3 Email Forwards for free…additional Email Forwards are available for a small Addon charge for [sold in packs of 5]).

Example of Email Forwarding

you@yourdomain.com => your-gmail@gmail.com

info@yourdomain.com => your-gmail@gmail.com

sales@yourdomain.com => your-gmail@gmail.com

another-person@yourdomain.com => another-persons@gmail.com

yet-another-person@yourdomain.com => yet-another-persons@gmail.com

Just let us know what email addresses you want forwarded, and to which email address they should forward to (like the examples above).

Create a Free Gmail Account

Create a free Gmail account for easy email management (send and receive email using your domain name, multiple inboxes, labels, filtering).

In the words of Google themselves…

“7+ GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. is email that’s intuitive, efficient, and useful.”

Setting Up Gmail To Send and Receive Email Based On Your Domain Name

Send And Receive Email Based On Your Domain Name Using Gmail

This page describes how to set up Gmail to send and receive from email addresses based on your domain name, and then how to setup Gmail to easily separate your business related emails from your personal emails.

This is the simplest way to get your email that is based on your website’s domain into Gmail, and to be able to send and receive email using your website’s domain name using Gmail.

Send Email Based On Your Domain Name

Most likely you will also want to be able to Send (not just Receive) from each email address based on your domain name. You will be able to Send email from your new email accounts from within Gmail once you walk through the email Verification Process that Gmail requires as outlined below.

Send and receive from multiple email addresses with Gmail

CONFIGURING GMAIL TO SEND/RECEIVE FROM YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS BASED ON YOUR DOMAIN NAME

(setting up Gmail for Sending from email accounts that are based on your domain like yourname@yourdomain.com)

Each person within your organization who is getting an email to use with your domain and wants to use Gmail to send and receive with that email account will need to login to their Gmail account and walk through the ‘Send Verification‘ process.

Send Verification

1. Each individual needs to login to their Gmail account.
2. Go to Gmail > Settings > Accounts and Import > Send mail from another address.
3. Walk through the default settings, then click Send Verification.

Example

If you are setting up you@yourdomain.com to be used with Gmail you would enter you@yourdomain.com as the email to be used in the ‘Send mail from another address‘ section.

Once Email Forwarding is in place, then upon hitting ‘Send Verification‘ Gmail will send a verification email from Gmail to you@yourdomain.com, which in turn should Forward to your Gmail inbox to confirm you are the rightful owner of that email address.

Verify Each Email Account

Gmail will send verification emails for each new email address that is to be verified based on the ‘Send Verification’ process. The verification emails should automatically go to your Gmail email address (based on the Email Forward we set up prior to this step).

1. Check your Gmail inbox for the verification emails sent from Gmail.
2. Click on the link within the verification email to verify you own that email account.

Here is a Tutorial Video on How To Set Up Email Accounts for Use with Gmail.

Once verified, each individual should be able to send as well as receive emails from within Gmail for any email accounts based on their domain name that were set up with Email Forwarding.

Segment Your Gmail Inbox Using Filters and Labels

Organizing your Gmail inbox using Multiple Inboxes, Labels and Filters

The next thing you probably want to do is separate your work email from other email within Gmail by setting up Multiple Inboxes, Filters and Labels within Gmail > Setup to color code stuff within Gmail, and you are on your way (we can do this as an Addon Service, and we can also provide monthly Gmail Tech Support as an Addon if you need it).

Need Google Apps Configured?

If you would rather have us configure Google Apps to be your email server for your domain (rather than Email Forwarding) then just let us know and we’ll configure email for your domain to point to Google Apps.

In this case you would need to manage all of your own email accounts yourself within Google Apps.

Here’s the technical detail of how we configure Google Apps for use with your domain:

Why You Maybe Should Not Use Outlook

Main benefits to using Gmail over Outlook:

If you really need to use Outlook then we have to set up an Email Hosting account instead (not Email Forwarding), which can be done but has it’s limitations compared to Gmail, so Gmail is the preferred method.

And there is additional cost involved for Email Hosting.

If after reading this article you still prefer Outlook then please let us know so we can set up your email accounts the way you want it.

Gmail Summary:

1. We set up a new domain for you (or point your existing domain to our server).
2. You send us the email addresses you want set up with Email Forwarding, along with the corresponding Gmail account to forward each email address to.
3. We set up Email Forwarding for your email addresses.
4. You login to Gmail and go to Gmail > Settings > Accounts and Import > Send mail from another address.
5. Walk through the default settings, then click Send Verification.
6. Gmail will send verification emails for each new email address that you sent a verification for.
7. Check your Gmail inbox for the verification emails sent from Gmail.
8. Click on the link within the verification email to verify you own that email account.
9. Set up Multiple Inboxes, Filters and Labels within Gmail > Setup to manage how your emails are displayed within Gmail.

That’s pretty much how we use email…we forward all emails associated to one of our website domains (like web contact form submissions) to a select Gmail inbox, then segment it with Labels and Filters for easy management. We can then send and receive from any email address we set up, and easily respond to the emails that are directly related to our business (keeping personal emails separate). It works great!