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mesqueeb's avatar

email: Set up on domain host or server host?

I have a domain with GoDaddy and a server with digital ocean. I wonder if I should set up my email address that goes with my domain on the server side or on the domain host?

Any advice?

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mesqueeb's avatar

I saw here that it's not good to setup email on my own server. Should I use a service like mailgun or sparkpost right from the beginning without setting up anything on the server?

KNietzsche's avatar
  1. It's not good if you plan to send tons of mails...so it depends on your application...frequency, number of users, number of emails, goals...On my shared hosting, I know I'm "limited" to send 500 mails / hour...
  2. You don't need to configurate all at the begining, and it's so easy to switch from a provider to another...that I would not be afraid about that.

But some more experienced people could correct me if I'm wrong.

There are some nice videos from Jeff about mailchimp and mandrill explaining how to configurate

mesqueeb's avatar

It seems mailgun isn't appropriate to setup IMAP access etc...

What are my options? Gsuite costs me money... : (

shaswat's avatar

Check Zoho Mail for free business emails . Mailgun / Mandrill is for sending transactional emails.

mesqueeb's avatar

@shaswat Thanks! But I don't really have good experience with Zoho services... >.> Thanks anyway!

Any other IMAP included free options?

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