How to add a business email for your domain - kdaisho/Blog GitHub Wiki

This is an instruction on creating a business email address with Cloudflare, and configure your personal Gmail account to use it.

reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJ10QqVBWs&t=944s

  • domain registerer: Cloudflare
  1. Go to Cloudflare
  2. Select a domain (e.g., I chose daishodesign.com)
  3. Go to Email -> Email Routing from the navigation
  4. Click Routes tab
  5. Enter your email address (e.g., I entered admin so it'll be [email protected])
  6. Click Save

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Gmail

You'll receive a verification email. Click the link on the email to verify.

Cloudflare (Email DNS Records)

You'll be encouraged to configure MX and TXT records so do it. Click Add records automatically. Wait for about 5 min.

At this point, you can receive emails to your business email account. ([email protected]) Test it.

If it's all good, you want to be able to send emails from your business account. We'll set this up.

Gmail

Create App password

You can use your personal Gmail account credential to create a new account, but not recommended. Let's use App password for this.

  1. Go to Manage your Google account
  2. Click Security menu
  3. Enable 2-Step Verification; you'll need this to use App passwords
  4. Go back to Security menu. You'll see App passwords option under 2-Step Verification
  5. Give your app account a name (e.g., I gave gmail smtp for [email protected]). Click Generate.
  6. Copy the given password, save it somewhere safe.

Email settings

  1. Select Accounts and Import
  2. Find Send mail as option then click Add another email address
  3. Enter your name and your business email address. Click Next Step.
  4. Enter smpt.gmail.com into SMTP Server field. Keep the port 587
  5. Enter your Gmail address (e.g., [email protected] for my case)
  6. Enter the app password to Password field
  7. Keep Secured connection using TLS (recommended) selected
  8. Click Add Account. You'll receive a verification email. Copy it.
  9. Enter the verification code, then click Verify.

That's it.