A professional email is a must if you want your business to look legit. Let’s face it, what looks more professional – yourbusiness@gmail.com or yourbusiness@yourwebsite.com?
If you have your website hosted through HostGator, you can setup a professional email in just a few minutes.
Here’s how:
Log in to your HostGator dashboard and click on email accounts.
On the top right hand side there should be a button that says create, click on that.
Make sure under the domain tab you select the domain that you want the email for.
Under username enter what you want the email to be, for example info, sales, support or just your name.
Next you will enter a password under the password section and then click on the create button.
Your new email address will now be created!
You will be redirected to your email accounts section, find the email you just created and click on manage.
On the next screen go to allocated storage space, here you can change it from 500mb to unlimited, scroll down and click on update settings. Now your email has unlimited storage space!
You’ll now be back on your email accounts page, find your email again and click on check email.
On this page you can choose to open your email, set up on a device and more.
There are a couple choices for a webmail client, I use the Roundcube but you can also use horde. It doesn’t make a difference which one you use, it’s just my preference.
Click on open and you will now be in your new professional email where you can send and receive emails!
I would send a test email to make sure everything is working properly. Once the test email goes through you’re good to go!
That’s all there is to it! If you have any questions on how to setup your professional email in HostGator, leave a comment below or send me a message and I will be glad to help you out.
