How to create a business email from the GoDaddy domain

Introduction business email

In website marketing as well as digital marketing there is an important factor of your email address. When you use a simple email address for example xyz@gmail.com, in that case, there is not create impression on your customers.

So that your growth of business does not take place. In the same way, email addresses make an important role in professional websites. So business email is essential and it will be the priority for your business account. So here we discuss how to create a custom business email from GoDaddy.

Open your GoDaddy account:

Step 1

If you use the GoDaddy service for your website domain then, login into your GoDaddy account. 

Then go to my products section from your profile and select it.

Step 2

You can see the option Domains & additional products. Click on the additional product tab.

You will see the Email forwarding option and next to it you will see the redeem tab. So simply click on it.

By creating the email forwarding, we will able to forward all mails which are coming to your business email to your Gmail inbox.

Now click create forward then you see the window with forwarded email. In the “forward this email address” box you can add the business email which you want to create.

Here we give some ideas of business addresses,

contact@domain.com

support@domain.com

In that domain portion, you can add the domain which you have purchased from the GoDaddy account.

Step 3

In the box “To this email address,” you can add your Gmail address where you want to receive your business emails.

Let’s click create and email forward has been created.

Step 4

Check your DNS settings:

In order to ensure that emails are being forwarded we need to make sure that our DNS is set up correctly.

To check the DNS setting, go to your GoDaddy dashboard and click on tools and select the option “server settings”.

From this settings tab, you will see in red text that, “No MX records were found.” Or “error found”. So this means the forward we just created will not work. To fix this problem we are going to follow the next steps:

Step 1

To fix your DNS records, you need to first go to your DNS settings page. If you got your hosting from GoDaddy then you change the DNS there. And if you purchase your hosting from another hosting provider like Bluehost or Hostinger then simply log in to your Bluehost or Hostinger account and change your DNS settings.

Steps for changing DNS settings

Go to your hosting provider and click on domain DNS settings. Let’s scroll down and click add. For this process when you log in to your Bluehost hosting provider you can see the MX Records there. Simply click on it. In that field of columns, you can see the Host, Points to priority, and TTL tabs.

In that Host box type “@”

In that points to box you have to go back to your previous window page and copy the text i.e. “smtp.secureserver.net” and paste it into this “points to” box.

In that priority box enter “0 (zero)”

In that TTL box set the minimum time allotment. In GoDaddy, it is 1 hour and in Bluehost, it is 4 hours. After that click on the “Save” tab.

For the final step do the same process again,

Go to the domain DNS settings and click the MX Records tab. For adding MX Record type “@” in the host section.

To type text in the points to the section again go back to your previous window and copy the second text and paste the text in the “Points to” column.

Set the priority to “10”

Set TTL at minimum requirement i.e. 1 hour or 4 hours as we mentioned earlier. And click save.

Now we are added the MX Records. So let’s go back and previously we had this error message i.e. “No MX records were found”. Click for a refresh you can see the MX Records are correct. This means that email for forwarding will work well.

So now let’s test if our emails are being forwarded properly. Let’s go to a random Gmail account and click compose. And try sending an email to your setup email address i.e., contact@domain.com.

Then you can see the email is properly received in your business email. But when you are trying to send an email from your business email the procedure does not take place. So to fix this problem you have to follow the next steps.

Here you have to need an SMTP server to send emails from your domain, so we are going to get a free server from a website called “SMTP2GO”.

Account setup on SMTP2GO

To create the account let’s open a new tab and search SMTP2GO. As you can see the first result on google simply click on that result which is shown “SMTP2GO: Reliable & Scalable Email Delivery Service.” And click try for free.

To start your free account you have to type your business email there which you have created in previous steps.

So type for example contact@domain.com and click on continue. Then you can see the window complete your free account. Write your full name and create the password. And click Sign up.

Then you will see the window “check your inbox!”

Check your Gmail inbox and simply click activation. To complete all processes you want to complete the 3 steps which you can see in the window.

You have to complete the verification process:

For that, you have to add CNAMES to your domain hosting provider. So let’s go to your DNS dashboard and simply click on DNS settings.

After that, you have to add the CNAME records to it. So let’s go back to your SMTP2GO dashboard and copy the CNAMES records and add them to your DNS settings and save settings. As you complete this process click enable SSL and click verify tab. Sometimes it will take time so wait for 20 to 30 minutes and verify it.

After completing this whole process let’s go to your Gmail inbox which you have selected for your business email account.

Final Steps

Add this account to Gmail

Let’s go into your Gmail inbox and click on setting from the right side of the window. Click on “ See all settings.”

From this window, you have to select the “Account and import” option. From that option you want to click “add another email address” and you will get this new window.

Now first we are going to enter the “from name” which you want in your email. This is the name that will appear when someone receives an email from you.

So, type your business name here.

In the Email address box, you need to enter the business email which you created earlier. i.e., contact@domain.com, and then click next.

Now you need to enter the username & password from SMTP2GO. So let’s go SMTP2GO dashboard and copy the SMTP2GO server which you find in the SMTP2GO dashboard.

Select the settings and click on SMTP users

From that window, you will get the SMTP server simply copy and paste it there.

For the username and password click on username then you will get the username and password. Just copy them and paste them into this tab.

Don’t forget to set the port to “25” and click add account. So now Gmail will send a confirmation code to your business email.

So, let’s go to Gmail and go to your inbox.

You can see, you have to get Gmail confirmation.

Simply open it and copy the confirmation code. Go back to your previous window and paste it. And click verify tab. Now we are done.

Now if you go to settings and click accounts and import you can see that your business email is now added. Now if you want to see this address as default from the address just click make default.

Now all the emails will be sent from your business email so by completing this whole process step by step you can create the business email for your website.

So hope you understand the whole process. If you like this article you can reply to your comments in the comment section. We will appreciate it. Thank you.