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I came from using a shared hosting account for some of my small clients, but I've now moved on to using Vultr and Digital Ocean to host my websites. With shared hosting I was able to create multiple email account for each small business I managed via the cPanel. I could host over 20+ websites and have 5+ domain emails per site. Example: • [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • etc...
Other than buying emails from Godaddy or creating domain emails via gmail's gSuite. Are there any options for creating personal domain emails via Vultr or Digital Oceans VPS. For free?
I haven't done this but I think you might be able to use a service like Mailgun, which has a nice free tier, and this package to get the job done. https://laravel-news.com/laravel-inbound-email
Let me know how it goes. I might use this setup for a new side project I'm working on.
I actually just finished setting up my Mailgun account for sending emails out. Had no idea I could use it to receive emails too. Will definitely try it out. Thanks for the tip!
Though what I'm looking for is a way to create a few free emails I can use for people on my team that I can IMAP to Outlook and my phone. Basically just like a regular "professional" domain email account.
I suppose I could create multiple email forwarders on GoDaddy and send to my gmail account... then Send emails from my gmail account using an email alias tied to my domain.
Was just hoping there was an easier solution than a hacky workaround.
Something similar to when Gmail used to let you create 5 free domain emails back in the day. Are there any other services like that today?
I run an instance of MIAB on a Linode vps. Its not free at $5 per month but allows as many mailboxes and domains as I like.
be careful though... it can be stressful to run a mail server
We simply tell new clients we don't host emails, 90% of the time they already have office365 anyway.
Of course we came to the decision the hard way, loosing money trying to fix email issues.
In the rare case that we take on a client that is unwilling to pay for email accounts from Microsoft or Gsuite, we use zoho.com. Zoho is basically a free Gsuite. It's amazing for a free service.
But in the long term, the best solution is to get better clients that take their business serious enough to pay for email!
@SNAPEY - This looks pretty useful. So Mail in a box is free, but needs to run on it's own server / droplet which makes it $5 a month. Is that correct?
@STEVECOVE - Thanks do much for the info. I'm going to go check out zoho.com right now.
Yes, its built to install to its own droplet.
@daugaard47 I do also use zoho.com
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