Are you aware that you can create free email with own domain name from your hosting cPanel?
If not, you are missing an opportunity to increase your brandability.
When it comes to increasing the visibility and credibility of a brand name, I always prefer using branded Email address that ended up with my domain name. For example, admin@roadtoblogging.com looks more professional than roadtoblogging@gmail.com.
The great thing is, it’s free. So why not use the custom email domain which is free with your hosting package?
In this post, I will show you how to create an email account with domain name and how to forward mail from your professional email to personal email account. This way, you can easily send and receive mail from your personal email address, but your customer will see domain name email address.
How to Create Email with Own Domain Name
1. At first login to your Hosting cPanel. Most of the time cPanel link is http://yourdomain.com/cpanel. However, you can also get your cPanel link and password from your email which has been sent by your Host Provider when signed up.
2. Once you’ve logged in, scroll down and click on ‘Email Accounts‘ under Mail section. (Below is the screenshot of Bluehost cPanel)
3. On the next page, you need to enter the username of your email and select the domain name. Put a password and click on ‘Create Account‘.
4. Then you will get a notification like this ‘Account Created’ and you will find your created email account on the same page.
5. Now go back to cPanel and click on ‘Forwarders‘ in Mail section.
Forwarders allow you to send a copy of all mail from one email address to another so that you do not need to check both accounts. Note that the forwarded mail will still be delivered to the original address as well.
Then click on ‘Add Forwarder‘.
6. Fill the details and click on ‘Add Forwarder’.
Now all emails send to admin@roadtoblogging.com will be sent to my personal email address.
Hope this post helps you to create your professional email account with your domain name. If you face any problems regarding this, feel free to ask me via comment. If you find this post useful, help me by sharing this post on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
12 Comments
Hey Istiak,
I see this article is kinda old. What about google domains? I own my domain, however it looks google pushes you to pay for an additional monthly gsuite subscription in order to do this. Any help would be appreciated.
i am 54 years old living in Ethiopia , i own small business
Great! How can I help you?
how many Free Email Account can I create With Own Domain Name?
Nice guide Istiak :)
By the way, it is also possible to access your custom emails from your Gmail account using POP (without using forwarders). You can also reply to those emails from Gmail itself.
Hi Istiak
Here you clearly define for free email account making and its working …..
Thanks for helping us
Have nice day
Glad you liked it.
This is quite a useful info. Even I had been thinking of changing to my own domain email id, Will def. try this and let you know if i have any doubts.
Hello Istiak
I was looking for this information from past 5 days.But as i subscried to your updates via mail than i get to know about this article.I want to know that how can i check my mails on my professioanl mail id ? and is there any process through which i can connect my gmail mail id to professioanl mail id. So that mail which come to my gmail can also come to my professional email id.
To know how to check your email read this article.
And to forward email of your gmail account to your professional email, read this article.
Hi Istiak,
thanks for this useful tutorial. I got my own blog email some time ago and it really helps with credibility. If somebody asks you or you apply for any service an email adress coming from your own blog rather than free gmail account looks just more serious.
I spend a lot of time building my blog, so if somebody checks it out because of my email adress I’m sure they will find it valueable.
Cheers,
Phil
Hey Phil,
Totally agree with you. It is very important to have professional email account to increase credibility. Thanks for the comment.