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Email on my own domain (godaddy based)
initiatefailure
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Ok so I figured out my problem after a call to customer support. It was actually a lot simpler than I thought. There's 1 email included with each domain and that stays free all year. The options that cost more where for additional email addresses. Also he told me how to login to the email without going through their site and my account on it.
I just picked up a domain for my personal portfolio site and it let's me set up a personal email based on that domain. So instead of john@gmail.com I can have john@johnsmith.com with my personalized name@domain.
First thing is, I assume this was free (this is through godaddy). I saw during the checkout there was an option to add email but it was for 5 addresses and it cost ~$2/month. This option i found was in "my account" -> "my products" -> "free products" and the one option was "email account list" saying I had 1 credit next to it. clicking that link takes me to a page that says
Free email addresses for "domain".com
Email - Personal (1GB Total/1Box) (recurring)
It's the recurring part that makes me wonder if a month from now they'll start charging me for it. I'm going through the site but I can't figure out if that'll happen that way or not.
The second option is how do I set this up to be usable? Is there a program that lets me access it like outlook? Or do I have to use their webmail service?
First thing is, I assume this was free (this is through godaddy). I saw during the checkout there was an option to add email but it was for 5 addresses and it cost ~$2/month. This option i found was in "my account" -> "my products" -> "free products" and the one option was "email account list" saying I had 1 credit next to it. clicking that link takes me to a page that says
Free email addresses for "domain".com
Email - Personal (1GB Total/1Box) (recurring)
It's the recurring part that makes me wonder if a month from now they'll start charging me for it. I'm going through the site but I can't figure out if that'll happen that way or not.
The second option is how do I set this up to be usable? Is there a program that lets me access it like outlook? Or do I have to use their webmail service?
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It's free for the first...10 or so email accounts (which is actual, real email inboxes; you can set up an unlimited number of aliases for a single account or use throwaway [whatever]@yourdomain.com addresses that would be routed to a single inbox)
here's a guide, and during config it'll even tell you what to do specifically since GoDaddy is your registrar
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-quickly-easily-get-set-up-on-google-apps/
I think it's 50 these days with the free variant, actually. I don't think I have anything unusual going on with mine.
It is a very nice service, though.
Ahaha, found it
I just switched a few weeks ago. I got tired of having me@mydomain forward stuff to my Gmail account and then have Gmail fake send headers from me@mydomain, and wanted to set it up properly.
Not sure if I'll even bother moving anything to iCloud since everything hums along so nicely already. I've set up GApps on at least two domains and it's always been a breeze.
edit: also, that article I linked to is about four years old; a lot of the complaints in the comments have been resolved/clarified as Google has rolled out those features and functions to both Google account and Google Apps for Domain accounts.
I stand corrected! And probably should have remembered that.