Google Domains & Setting up customised email
Summary
Google services are extremely powerful and can be customised to great extend than you could ever imagine. In this article, we will look into setting up SMTP & Email forwarding from your own domain and gmail at zero cost (Well cost of the domain)
Pre-Reqs
- A domain and Ability to amend DNS MX records (Example uses google domains and addresses are availble for around $10 per year)
- Gmail address
Steps
Domain Steps - Setting up Email Forwarding
- Setup Email Forwarding
- Navigate to: https://domains.google.com/registrar/<your_domain>/dns
- Select Email -> Email Forwarding -> Add email alias
- Add -> Verify
- You should get an email to your "@gmail.com" address
- Verify it by clicking on the link
- Verify if the MX records have come up in your DNS URL
- Select DNS and Verify MX record has been added
- Please wait some time (an hour or so) and send an email to your new address "admin@diaryfolio.com" and see if you receive it
Gmail Steps - Setting up Email Reply/Sending
Now as we configured Email forwarding, you can give out your domain email address to others. But still when you reply back, it comes from your "@gmail.com" address. These steps will ensure you can reply back from same email address (i.e. admin@diaryfolio.com")
- Setup App password/key
- Navigate to your gmail/google Account settings: https://myaccount.google.com/security
- Take app passwords: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
- put in 'mail' & 'other' as per below screenshot & generate password & copy it
- Email Account Settings
- Goto your Email Settings: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/accounts
- Send Mail as -> Add another Email Address
- Fill up a Name & Email address of your custom domain
- Goto your Email Settings: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/accounts
- Send Mail as -> Add another Email Address
- Fill up a Name & Email address of your custom domain
- Click Next Step -> SMTP details & Username (your personal email) & Password generated by "App Password" -> Add Account
- Click Next Step -> SMTP details & Username (your personal email) & Password generated by "App Password" -> Add Account
- You will get an email to your domain email address now (eg admin@diaryfolio.com)
- By this time, it should have configured to reach your personal inbox by Email forwarding
- Click on the verification Link (or paste the code into the popup verification code window)
All set to go now. You can try sending email to to your domain email address and while replying back from your gmail, You can Select the "from" address now.
- You will get an email to your domain email address now (eg admin@diaryfolio.com)
- By this time, it should have configured to reach your personal inbox by Email forwarding
- Click on the verification Link (or paste the code into the popup verification code window)