Is the best way to just purchase one of the business email packages from a domain hosting web site?
Or is it just the domain hosting that I need and I can then set up an email with it?
What Is The Easiest Way to Set up a Business Email?
dabs on 18/03/2021 - 14:19
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Thank you. Do you need an existing domain to use this?
You do for your own hosted e-mail. You do not with Gmail (although have the option to as well).
IMWO as sufferer of a business thats gone from Exchange/Outlook to Chrome/Google as a business email solution is horrible.
Do you need more than 1 email address?
I use namecheap and just forward *@mydomain.com to a gmail account. Namecheap does this for free with domain registration.
Only a handful of emails. 2-3?
Is forwarding the domain to a gmail account possible if I need more than 1 business email?
It looks like namecheap lets you do 100.
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx…
You can forward it to any email address. Set your Gmail from address to the domain and your done.
Getting the email account is the easy part. The harder part is what you want the email client to look like and what functionality is needed in the client. The email client will then either be free (web interface or something like Thunderbird) or cost (MS Office Outlook app).
Overall the best clients are usually the ones that are apps you run on a PC/MAC/Linux and communicate with the email server.
I would ideally want to send and receive emails on Outlook using the business email.
Then you need to ensure that the service you buy/setup has IMAP and/or POP3 depending on your requirements.
have a read of the following for which one may be applicable for your requirements:
https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/blog/whats-difference-ima…
Go for a basic M365 plan, $6.90 per user per month. Pretty easy to set up with some googling etc. Users can just log in in the Outlook app from the app store to Microsoft Online.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/business#coreu…
You can set your own domain up easily, they provide instructions that you can use with your DNS provider (often the domain registrar e.g. Namecheap, VentraIP etc.). WAY less messy than getting namecheap to forward emails, or messing around with POP/IMAP mail clients to your custom provider etc.
Also includes web & mobile versions of office apps. You can't go wrong to be honest. And it's secure (look into setting up things like Multi-factor Authentication for your users to reduce the risk they get compromised, which can be costly for your business).
To give you an idea of how easy it is, off the top of my head you just:
- sign up
- configure basic settings
- follow prompts to add your domain
- add some DNS records on your domain registrar, e.g. an MX record, SPF record, probably DKIM/DMARC depending on what MS suggests. That will cover email.
- add users mailboxes/accounts
Done and dusted :)
Thank you. I already have Office 365 so I will look in to setting up and getting the domain!
Easiest is Gmail Business: https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_au/pricing.html
You can get a package from hosting provider site. Some hosting packages allow you to set a custom one up, others don't so it depends.