business email
business email

How to set up your WordPress website email and link it with Gmail

INTRODUCTION

A small business or a large organization requires a professional business email for marketing campaigns as well as for regular use. A professional email always adds standard rather than ordinary email account. You can do it for free without spending any bucks!

[email protected] sounds more professional than [email protected] right?

In this article I will be discussing 2 topics

1.How to set up business email account

(GoDaddy is my hosting provider and I have build my website using WordPress)

2.How to link it with Gmail so that you can access every mails in your professional account in Gmail .You can also send reply via Gmail back in your business id!

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1.Login to your control panel

Example www.arathygopalakrishnan/cpanel. Enter your login details and click enter.

website email
website email

 

2.Go to email wizard.

email wizard.
email wizard.

3.Fill in your details and create account.

4.Next step is to choose your mail client. I personally prefer windows live

website email
website email

5.Next step is to choose the email account to start send your messages. Choose web mail.

6.Then choose a default web mail application. Select horde.

website email
website email

7.Now you created you email account. and this is how your inbox look like. You can now simply login to your email account by typing www.domainname.com/webmail .

website email
website email

8.Now go to your web mail account and select forwarders. Enter your Gmail email address where you need to forward the mails. An email sent to business account will be copied to your Gmail account as well so that you can access everything in one (Gmail).

9.Now login to you Gmail account to connect your business account.

10.Go to settings and choose Accounts and import. There you could find another option “send mail as” . here you enter your new business email address (example [email protected]). Now an email will be sent to your business account(web mail) for confirmation. Login to your web mail and click the link for verification.

website email
website email

11.Now whenever you wish to send an email from your Gmail account. You will get different options related to the number of business email accounts you created. Example:

website email
website email

12.If you send an email choosing [email protected] as from address. The person receiving your mail will see it as sending from your business account and when they reply to [email protected] . A copy of that mail will be send to your Gmail account as well. So by this way you can access all mails in one account and send mails using your professional email address!

CONCLUSION

A business email is created . Now you can send and reply mails with business email via Gmail account . Hope this helped you. If you have any doubt , please comment below.

 

 

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About the author

Arathy Gopalakrishnan

Hai, I am Arathy Gopalakrishnan. The founder of this blog .I am from India and now settled in Dubai. I Worked as Assistant Professor in MG University, Kerala ,India for almost 2 years and now working in IT industry. This blog is created to share with you all my knowledge in IT and Management areas. Read me at http://arathygopalakrishnan.com/about/

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