In my post, I show you how to get an email address with your domain name. Most hosting companies offer free email addresses with hosting plans, check how many free email addresses you get. If you plan to have several email addresses for your business, this is important.
When I started blogging, I used a generic Gmail email address. Having an email address with your domain name when you contact clients looks more professional.
Let’s get started.
- Creating a domain email address on Bluehost
- Creating a domain email address on Bluehost video tutorial
- Forward domain email to Gmail on Bluehost
- Creating a domain email address on Hostgator
- Forward domain email to Gmail on Hostgator
- How to create a domain name email address on Hostgator video tutorial
- Conclusion
Creating a domain email address on Bluehost
Let’s start with Bluehost. First, log into your Cpanel dashboard. Your login page for Bluehost will look like this.
On your dashboard, select ‘Advanced’ from the menu on the left.
On your Cpanel dashboard, search for the ‘Email’ section. You can scroll or use the search feature.
Email set up
In ‘Email’ select ‘Email Accounts’.
On the next page, select ‘Create’.
Next, start creating your domain email address. In the first box, assign the username. In the second box, assign a password for that email account.
Like this.
Once you have assigned your username and password, select ‘Create’.
After you create your email address, you receive confirmation and the address is added to the list.
How to check email
To check your email, there is a link to the right of the address. Click on ‘Check Email’.
When you check email for the first time, you need to select a default webmail application.
You have three options with different layouts. This is ‘Horde’.
You can send and receive emails using this email address. Every time you want to check this email address inbox you need to log in to your Bluehost Cpanel account and select ‘Email accounts’.
If you have a generic email address that you check regularly, you can set up a redirect from this email address to your generic address.
Forward domain email to Gmail on Bluehost
To set up a redirect, return to your main Cpanel dashboard and find the email section again. This time, select ‘Forwarders’.
On the next page, select your domain from the drop-down menu. Then click on ‘Add Forwarder’.
In the ‘Address to Forward’ box, type the username of the email you want to forward.
For example, to forward ‘[email protected]’, type ‘information’ in the box.
In the destination section, enter the full email address you want your emails to go. Once complete, click on the ‘Add Forwarder’ link.
After you click ‘Add Forwarder’ you get a confirmation popup.
All emails sent to ‘[email protected]’ are forwarded to my Gmail email account.
Creating a domain email address on Bluehost video tutorial
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Creating a domain email address on Hostgator
First, log into Hostgator.
On your Cpanel, search for the ‘Email’ section. You can use the search feature or scroll down the page.
Select ‘Email Accounts’.
Create a new email address account
Enter you username and a password two times. To create your new email account select ‘Create Account’.
Once you have created your new email address, it appears in the list at the bottom of the page.
How to access your email address account
To check for new emails., return to the main Cpanel dashboard and find the email section again. Select ‘Webmail’.
Once you click on ‘Webmail’, you come to this page. To check for new messages, click on ‘Access Webmail’.
You can send and receive emails from here.
Forward domain email to Gmail on Hostgator
On the dashboard search for ‘Email’, and select ‘Email forwarders’.
On the next page, select ‘Add Forwarder’.
Select the username of the account, choose the website domain from the drop-down menu, enter your destination email address, and finally select ‘Add forwarder’.
How to create a domain name email address on Hostgator video tutorial
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Conclusion
Now you can create an email address on Bluehost and Hostgator. Setting up domain email addresses will be similar on most popular hosting companies.
You can use your domain email address to contact your email subscribers. I would also recommend setting up a push notification service for your website. To find out how to do this, check out my ‘How do I add push notifications to my WordPress site?‘ post.
I also have a YouTube channel of blogging tutorials.
Before you set up your email, would you kindly leave a comment? Did my post help you? Would you like me to go into more detail? I look forward to reading your comments.
This was extremely helpful, thanks! It does look as though Bluehost has updated their steps somewhat since you wrote this, but I was able to figure it out from what you provided. 🙂
Thank you for your comment. I don’t use Bluehost anymore, but I still have access to their Cpanel. I will go through my post and update the parts that are outdated. Again, thank you for your feedback. Domain emails can be a pain to check because you have to log in to your Cpanel if you have a Gmail account you can adjust the settings to check your domain email. I have a post on how to do that if you are interested.