Unique Email Address that Works with Your Existing Email
After my last article I had several people ask me about using the professional email address they created with an existing email account. This is easier to do than you think.
The whole point of this is so you can have an email address that represents your business, without the need for checking multiple email accounts.
The first thing you need to do is setup your existing Gmail account to add on the new email address you created.
Setting up Gmail with a New Email Address
- To do this first login to your Gmail account.
- Once you are logged in go to “Settings” in the upper right hand corner.
- Under settings click “Accounts”
- Here you will have two options “Send mail as:” and “Get mail from other accounts:” I prefer the send mail as option because I always setup my self hosted email addresses as “forwarding” email addresses only.
- (This means all the email that goes to the email address I created actually gets forwarded to my Gmail account so I only need to check one email address.)
- Select the “Send mail as” option and add your new email address. A new window will open that will give you the option to add how your “From” name will appear, and the address the email will be sent from. For example anything I send from MML@gmail.com would show up as DreamhostBlogger@makemoneylife.com
- Once you have added the new email address you have created you will be emailed a confirmation code that you need to input into the window.
- If your self hosted email address forwards to your Gmail account simply go to your inbox and you should have an email with the confirmation code waiting for you.
- Open the email and copy the confirmation code and paste it into the code window.
You have now verified that you own the email account you are trying to add to your Gmail account.
From here you can set the new email account as the “default” send from address on your Gmail account and anything you mail to people from your Gmail account will show that it came from your professional looking self hosted email address.
Otherwise you can leave it as a secondary account on your Gmail and you will have the option for a drop down selection of which email address you would like to send mail from whenever you compose a new message.
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