Zoho Mail

DoubleEntry

Hi Folks

I currently have a domain registered with GoDaddy and am using Google Workspace for my emails. It's a very small business (sole trader) and wont be getting any bigger, but Google insist on having an admin plus one user. 

Price is going up again to £14/month from July so I'm looking at alternatives. I've read about a cloud admin??, but that still leaves a £6/monthprice difference compared to Zoho who are showing £1/month with 10gB.

Anyone using this Zoho service, and can I simply set up a new email using same name etc. with them and cancel the google one.

I'm not sure of the order I should do things and I don't necessarily need to migrate existing stuff.

TIA

Peter999_2

Hi DoubleEntry,

I've been using the free Zoho Mail option for about 5 years now.     In answer to your question, yes, you can just point your domain to Zoho and you will receive emails to them.   

Like you, I was using Google when they suddenly decided to start charging and Zoho was the only one I could find that offered domain email for free.    It's been great for the last 5 years, there is an android client and windows client - though you don't get POP or activsync with the free service - however, I never use them.

Just setup your own host records for SPF, DMARC, DKIM and then create MX records pointing to mx.zoho.eu, mx2.zoho.eu, mx3.zoho.eu.

I literally set it all up in about an hour all those years ago and never touched a thing since.   It's great.

I didn't migrate anything, just backed up the emails from google and kept them in an archive.
As I only get 5GB free from Zoho mail, I just back up emails every year and put them in an archive so I have all my business email archive for the last 10 years.

Edited to add -    When you export the emails from Zoho, it exports them in EML format and I got a converter years ago that you just feed it in and it converts it to a .PST.    I then have Outlook installed on my PC/Laptop with a folder for each year (e.g, 2013,2014,2015).  Outlook indexes them all so is easy to search if I know the email is from a previous year.

Peter999_2

Just been looking further into it.     If you do want to migrate the emails from Google Workspace you can.

In the admin console you can go into Data Migration to import existing email and you can specify Google Workspace.   It's all detailed here - Migration to Zoho Mail from other email servers | Zoho Mail

deskhelp

To reduce cost you can even use hosting provide that also offer email hosting if your godaddy account does not supports it.