EMail Config: EMail Configuration (including web mail)

Branded GMail with Google

Regardless of registrar, you can have email accounts on your own domain name through googlemail. (Prices vary over time, check their web site for current information.) Google offers web-mail, POP and IMAP. Synchronization with iPhone and other mobile devices is included. Links: sign-up   POP   IMAP   DNS/MX records   catch-all email   URLs   Unsub group

To get into the Google Apps Setup wizard AFTER you have created your free google apps account and closed your browser, use a URL such as this, with your domain name: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/href.com/Dashboard

Google IMAP Settings for an IPhone with IOS 5

SETTINGS > MAIL < ACCOUNTS
Add a new account or edit an existing one...

Make sure the type of account is IMAP

Name: anything you want but should be your name
Address: yourname@yourdomain.com  example  info@href.com
Description: anything you want

Incoming Mail Server
Host name: imap.googlemail.com
User Name: yourname@href.com
Password: your password, case sensitive

SMTP
smtp.gmail.com
Host name: smtp.gmail.com
User Name: yourname@href.com
Password: your password
Use SSL: ON
Authentication: your password
Server Port: 587

Web Mail at 007Names

If you have registered your domain with 007Names, you may use their free DNS and web mail services. To use their web mail, login at webmail.007names.com.

Ultra Secure Web Mail

This is the most secure web mail service that we know of: hushmail.com.

EMail at FreeParking in NZ

If you are in New Zealand, consider using freeparking.co.nz as your domain registrar and add-on their email service. You will have a free DNS control panel, and control over your mailbox accounts.

FreeParking has excellent customer service. If you host multiple domains with them, you can organize things such that yourname@ will go to the SAME mailbox for all your domains. This can simplify things for tiny organizations. When you talk to Sales there, tell them you were referred by HREF Tools in California. (We do NOT get a sales commission.)

EMail at Crazy Domains

If you have registered your domain with crazydomains.com.au, you can use their full-featured email service for $1.50 per month, for up to 50 accounts, with a 10-year commitment.