Monday, May 19, 2014

Custom Email Domain Alternative For Outlook.com And Google Apps

Google and Microsoft are the most popular email service providers in the market now and both the companies allowed the integration of custom domain emails to be used with their email service. Google was the first company to offer the service through their Gmail service using Google apps. Microsoft followed the trend set by Google shortly by initially offering the service through their hotmail.com email service and then through the Outlook emails service. Even though the service was initially made available free for the customers by both the companies, they stopped the free service later.

Google has stopped providing free custom mail support through their Google Apps and Microsoft followed the trend and stopped providing free custom email support through their Outlook.com from last June. From now on, the users will have to pay for getting support from Google and Microsoft for operating their custom email through Google Apps or through Microsoft Outlook email setup. Google now charges the users about $5 a month for single users and the lowest tier plan from Microsoft for single users is $4 per user. Here we intend to describe an alternative email setup service that you can use as a substitute for Outlook email setup program or Google Apps.

If you run a small-scale business, the best option you have is the Zoho Mail service. The service is available free for up to five users in a single domain so it is best suited for small-scale businesses however, large businesses have to look for another option. Here we discuss how you can setup your custom email id with Zoho mail.

Instructions
  • The first step you need to do is to enter the domain name of the email that you wish to configure and then enter the email address and password of the first email address in the page that appears on the screen. 
  • Verify the email address and domain ownership. Domain verification can be done either by using DNS verification or by uploading a file to your server. 
  • The next step is to make sure that you have changed the MX records of the domain. This can be done by opening the Control Panel of the domain from the hosting company’s website. 
If you follow the simple instructions given above, you will be able to setup your custom domain named email in the Zoho Mail application.

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