on June 20th, 2022
Hosted Email vs Forwarding Email
With the recent changes to the way GoDaddy handles email I wanted to take a moment to explain the differences between the two email options you have with me so you can better identify what plan is best for you.
Hosted email
Hosted email is an actual email inbox hosted on one of the servers I run. You get a professional domain branded email address of your choice.
Like my Matthew@embeemedialab.com email.
Hosted Email Addresses:
Allows you to send an email from your custom address.
Can be accessed via a webpage you log into or from an email client such as Apple Mail, iPhone, Outlook, or from another provider like Google.
Has 10GB capacity to store email and attachments.
Costs $5 monthly but billed annually.
You need to purchase one inbox per address (example support@embeemedialab.com and marketing@embeemedialab.com)
I’ve chosen a new email hosting provider and you can check out this link here for plan info and to sign up and add this to your service.
Email Forwarding
Email forwarding with domain is a service I offer that give you an email address to use for your website and marketing materials that is simply forwarded to an email address you already have.
Like Matthew.boyles@outlook.com
Any replies you send from this email address with show as being sent from your gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc address and will not be from your custom domain email. However you can create as many of these as you want and there is never a cost since you are not using server space at all.
Email Forwarding:
Only receive email from the address
Cannot send as this email.
Is accessed only through your current email inbox.
Free for as long as you own the domain address
Can have as many as you want
No storage space.
Best of Both Worlds
Many times if I’m asked what’s the best way to handle email I will advise to purchase one hosted email address and use the free forwards to separate incoming emails into segments. With this set up you can set up the forwards as aliases and be able to “send as”. You also have a central place to manage your email and be able to keep it separate from your personal email.
If you need more info or want to set up an email forwarding address or hosted email address just let me know.
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