This guide is intended for users who are using the free plan and want to know how to obtain an email with the format “name@subdomain” (e.g.: [email protected]). It will consist of two sections: on the one hand, how to receive emails and, on the other hand, how to send them. The ultimate goal will be to have a personalized email as an alias for our email client, so that we can receive and send emails from Gmail, but they appear as “@subdomain.rf.gd” instead of “@gmail.com”.
Go to the security settings of the Google account you are using. You have to activate two-step verification. If you already have it, you can continue with the next step.
Go to Gmail → Settings → Accounts and Import. Then, select “Add another email address you own” under Aliases.
Set your forwarded email (your alias) and your sender’s name. Untick “Treat as an alias”.
SMTP is “smtp.gmail.com”, port is right already. Username is your gmail address (incl. “@gmail.com”) Password is the password you generated on step 2. Leave TLS enabled as is.
You will receive an email from Gmail asking you to confirm ownership with a code. Fill in the code in the popup modal, and you are all set!
Now you can just select your alias in the list when you compose a new message.
That’s not how ImprovMX works. It’s for mail forwarding, not sending. When you email [email protected] it then forwards it to a different email address.
Yes, it is possible to send emails. You just need to link the email address you use to receive messages in Gmail, and then you can use it as an alias to send messages. Simply follow this guide: "Send Mail As" with an email alias on Gmail — ImprovMX. I have followed it exactly, and it has worked perfectly for me. I would like to create a guide myself, but I’m not sure how to create it in the appropriate category since I am new to this forum.
Thank you @EstudiosVanjou for writing a more detailed guide for ImprovMX, also for the email sending part! Your guide is quite a bit more detailed than the original one, so I’ve replaced the previous guide with the one you wrote.
That error suggests that the account on which you’re trying to set it up just doesn’t have any eligible domains.
If you think that’s not correct, please create a new topic in Hosting Support and explain the issue there. Please clearly state on which domain and account you want setup which type of DNS record.
