Set up business email on your own domain
Create mailboxes like hello@yourcompany.com, add forwarders, connect Outlook or your phone, and set SPF, DKIM and DMARC so mail reaches the inbox.
An address on your own domain looks more trustworthy than a free webmail account, and it stays yours if you change providers. With ByteNests web hosting, email is part of the hosting account.
Before you start
You need a domain and a hosting account with that domain on it. If you are starting from nothing, the Website wizard can register the domain, create hosting and make the first mailbox in one go. See Launch a website in one go.
Step 1: create mailboxes
Open the hosting account’s Email tab and choose Create mailbox.
Pick the domain and enter the address, for example hello or sarah.
Add a display name, a password and a storage quota.
Optionally email the login details to the person who will use it.
Your plan sets how many mailboxes you can create. You can change a mailbox’s quota later, forward a copy of its mail, or disable it when someone leaves.
Step 2: forwarders for shared addresses
Addresses such as sales@ or support@ often do not need a mailbox of their own. A forwarder sends their mail to one or more existing mailboxes, so the whole team sees it.
Step 3: connect your apps
Read mail in the browser with Open webmail. For Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or your phone’s mail app, Mail app settings shows the incoming (IMAP) and outgoing (SMTP) servers, ports and security. The username is always the full email address.
Step 4: get into the inbox, not spam
Receiving servers check three DNS records before trusting your mail:
SPF: Which servers may send mail for your domain.
DKIM: A signature showing the message was not changed on the way.
DMARC: What receivers should do with mail that fails the first two, and where to send reports.
Open the Deliverability panel on the Email tab. It checks all three and shows the exact value to set for any that are missing. For domains registered with ByteNests, add them in the DNS editor; otherwise add them at your domain provider as TXT records.
Step 5: test it
Send a message from your new address to a personal Gmail or Outlook account and check that it arrives in the inbox. Reply to it to check incoming mail too. If it lands in spam, recheck the Deliverability panel; DNS changes can take up to the record’s TTL to be seen everywhere.