How can I create custom email address for free?

Create custom email; Today we will look at how to create custom email addresses using the webspace kit hosting platform. Webspace kit offers free business email with their hosting plans.

So, after reading this article, instead of using a standard gmail address like this one, you will be able to use an email address on your own domain name, which means that if you have a site like cakeviews.com, you will be able to send or receive emails using addresses like contact kquest.com which looks much more professional.

Next, we'll look at how you can create multiple business emails on the same domain, similar to this. Having a business email will help you build trust with your customers and promote your business, so let's get started.

Getting a domain email hosting

If you already have a domain and hosting with Web Space Kit, skip to step 2 of this tutorial. Now, enter the name you want for your website, as I have already chosen one for mine, and click search. Our domain name will be available once you choose your name.

Let us now look at how you can obtain this domain name and hosting. So, to get this domain name and hosting, simply click add to cut and then click continue. It will now ask you to select a plan based on the number of websites you require; you can do so here.

Next, you can specify how long you want the hosting to last. You can select any length here, and as you go longer, you'll notice that we're getting a discount. I'll select 12 months and click continue.

Here you can see that we are getting our domain, cakeviews.com, for free, as well as our hosting, both of which will be valid for one year. Let's fill in the blanks.

Now Select your preferred payment method here. Enter your information and click the "Order Now" button. So now we successfully place the order now if we click here you can see that we have successfully got our domain and hosting okay once you have got your domain and hosting.

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Create custom email address

Next, let's move on to step two, which is to create a custom email address. To do so, click here now scroll down and click on email accounts.

Now, to create a business email account, click create email account, and then enter the business email address you want to use (I'm going to use alexcarefuls.com). Next, create a password for your business email.

Once you've saved the password, enable this to get unlimited space and click create, and the business email account has been successfully created.

Make an email forwarding

Let us now proceed to the final step, which is to create an email forward. Creating an email forward will route all emails sent to your business email to an inbox where you can read them all.

To create the email forward, simply click here, which will take you to this page. Scroll down to Forwarders, and then click Add Forwarder. Enter the gmail address to which you want to forward business emails.

I'm going to enter my gmail id and then click add forwarder, so now we've successfully created the email forward and all emails sent to this business email will be forwarded to our gmail inbox, okay?

Let's try to send an email to our business email, so to send the email, go to a random gmail account and click compose now let's send a test email to our business email, and now we can see that we've received the email in our gmail inbox.

So, let's open it, and you can see that it was sent to our business email, which we received in our gmail inbox, so you will now be able to receive business emails in your gmail inbox.

When we try to reply to this email, we see that it still goes to our gmail id rather than our business email. We want our email to be sent from our business email.

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How to add a business email to gmail?

Next, let's look at how to add a business email to Gmail. To do so, go to your inbox, click here, and then click see all settings. Now, click accounts and import because we want to send emails from our business email.

Let's click add another email address, and you'll be taken to a new window where you can type any name you want as your from name. I'm going to enter my name here, and this name will appear when someone receives an email from you.

Now, in this field, enter the business email that you have created, for example, alex kvues.com, and then click the next step. To add your business email to gmail, you must first obtain these details from your hosting account.

Let's go to this tab, then click here to return. Scroll down and click configure mail client, which will take you to this page, where you can see that we have all of the information we need.

So let's copy and paste these details here. First, copy and paste the username, then change the port to 465, and finally enter the password you saved earlier in notepad.

So let's copy that and paste it here after you've entered all of these details. Gmail will send a confirmation code to your business email, so let's go to our inbox and open the confirmation email to get the code.

Now copy this code and paste it here, then click verify. Your business email will be added to your gmail as soon as you click verify, and you can see in your inbox that we have successfully added a business email to gmail.

Now that you've clicked compose and here, you can see that our business email address has been added. You can now start sending emails from your business email, so let's try sending an email. I'll select the business email and send a test email to a random gmail address.

Now, if we click send, go to that inbox, and refresh, we can see that we have received an email, so let's open it. If you click here, you can see that the email was sent from alex at cakeviews.com, which is a business email, okay?

Now that we can send and receive emails from our business email, we have successfully created a business email that you can use. To make this email address your default from address, go to your gmail inbox and click make default.

So now your business email address will be your default from address, and you can check it by clicking compose, and you can see that our business email is now selected by default. But what if you want to create multiple business emails on the same domain?

Assume you want to create another business email address, such as support xyz.com or contact xyz.com. So let's see how you can create multiple business emails on your domain next. To create another business email, we'll take two steps.

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How you can create multiple business emails?

The first step is to create a business email account, so go to webspace git click here now scroll down and click email accounts now click create email account to get started.

Now enter the desired business email address; for example, support cakeviews.com. Next, enter a password. I'm going to copy this and save it to my notepad. Once you've saved the password, enable it to get unlimited mbe and simply click create.

So now that we've successfully created a business email account, let's copy and paste these details here. First, copy and paste this username here. then change the port to 465, and then enter the previously saved password

Once you've entered all of these details, click the Add Account button. Gmail will send a confirmation code to your business email, so go to your inbox, open this confirmation email, copy this code, paste it here, and then click verify. As soon as you click verify, your business email will be added to Gmail.

Now, if you go to your inbox, you will see that we have successfully added a business email address to gmail. Let's see how it works, so let's click compose and you will see that our business email address has been added.

So let's try sending an email now. If we click send and then go to that inbox and refresh, we can see that we have received an email. Let's open it and see that it was sent from a new business email address, support kviews.com. 

Now that you know how to create multiple business email addresses, you can send and receive emails from them. So, that's how you can create a business email address on your own domain.