Setting up own domain email with gmail

AdamBerg

I have purchased a domain and made a email address but I dislike checking email through the hosting control panel.

I like how gmail works so want to set up the email I made with gmail but with googling info I am left confused.

Does anyone here know how to do this? I basically want to check my info@mydomain.com through gmail.

S0litaire

How long have you had your google account?

If you used "Google Apps"before the end of 2012 (https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en) then you can use it (now called Google Apps for Business) for free

Follow this link :
https://support.google.com/a/answer/172171?hl=en


If It's more recent (or you didn't use Google Apps) then the next best you can do is set up IMAP on your domain's email system and set google to pull the email into it's inbox. Then you can set up an "Alias" so you can "send from" your domain address using google Gmail.

AdamBerg

Ive been using a normal googlemail account but now taken the step to purchase a domain with hosting separately.

I've forwarded my domain to link to the hosting peoples servers.

In my hosting account I made a email info@ and was trying to forward emails to my googlemail email address but can't see how to do it. I've forgotten everything I ever learnt! So I then decided instead of forwarding the .co.uk mail to my googlemail, I will create the email with gmail.

My googlemail is fairly new but when I went to the link it actually let me set it up? So I made info@mydomain.co.uk but it tells me to upload a file, which I did, then change MX records (which from the video showed I needed to do this on the domain peoples control panel) and then I really don't know what I am doing from there. It should be done but then what I've done is the opposite of what you said (that it shouldnt work).

esuhl

I don't know anything about Googlemail specifically, but set up my domain to forward emails to my GMX account (it's a free service like Googlemail). Then I set up the "sender" field in the email client to the me@mydomain.co.uk email address.

That way, people send messages to, and receive them from, my domain email. But "behind the scenes" I'm just using GMX (which, like Googlemail, is free, so I don't have to pay for email hosting).

If the web interface for Googlemail doesn't let you change the default "sender" field, you might like to try a standalone email client like Thunderbird:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

AndyPix

AdamBerg wrote: »

I have purchased a domain and made a email address but I dislike checking email through the hosting control panel.

I like how gmail works so want to set up the email I made with gmail but with googling info I am left confused.

Does anyone here know how to do this? I basically want to check my [EMAIL="info@mydomain.com"]info@mydomain.com[/EMAIL] through gmail.

You most likely don't HAVE to use the hosting control panel to get to your emails ..
I bet there is a webmail portal - Which hosting are u using ..?

AdamBerg

Thanks for your replies. I use cpanel. Just realised it is a new design so I've changed it to retro as I recognise it better.

AndyPix

Login to your webmail portal by going to :-

http://yourdomain.co.uk/webmail

AdamBerg

Thank you! I've gone and done all those steps now. Works great, thanks.