How to create an email address with your own domain
Did you know that instead of having a @mailfence.com e-mail address, you can have e-mail address(es) with your own e-mail domain name hosted on the Mailfence secure and private platform?
How to create an e-mail address with your own domain name?
1. Own a domain name. We do not commercialize domain names: if you do not have one, you can for example acquire one with the following European companies: https://www.ovh.com, https://www.1and1.com or https://www.gandi.net.
2. Own a paying subscription on Mailfence.com.
Implications
– Your existing @mailfence.com e-mail address can be configured as an alias if you request so. Otherwise it will be deleted and might be attributed to an other user one day. Be sure to inform your contacts of the change of address.
– All e-mails sent to any address of your domain name will be directed to our servers (though you still can forward some of them automatically afterwards).
– If you already have an e-mail server for your domain name, be sure to follow the procedure correctly to avoid the loss of messages during the transition.
Procedure
1. Send us an e-mail, specifying your login name, your personal e-mail domain name, and the main e-mail address (within that personal domain name).
If several e-mail addresses have to be created for one and the same user, you will be able to set them up as aliases of the main address in the Settings of the account.
Please send us the list of email addresses with their corresponding account login name(s). For your info, we can also setup an email ‘catch-all address’.
2. Only after we informed you that everything has been set up on our side, modify (or ask the company you registered your domain name with) the “MX records” (MX = Mail Exchanger) of your domain name as follows:
yourname.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = smtp1.mailfence.com.
yourname.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = smtp2.mailfence.com.
Notes:
– the two entries are important to guarantee a good load balancing and fail over.
– make sure you enter the same preference value (e.g. 10) in both of the MX records.
– the “.” at the end of the line is crucial. Without them the MX records will be faulty (smtp1.mailfence.com.yourname.com).
3. When existing DNS records get modified, changes may not be completely propagated before some time (from a few hours to a few days, depending on the TTL value for preceding records). In the meantime, some e-mails will still be directed to the old server, please be sure you know how to access them after the change.
Once you finish the above mentioned procedure, and can successfully send and receive emails using custom domain from your mailfence account, check this blogpost for SPF, DKIM and DMARC to protect your emails from spoofing.
Got some questions? Feel free to contact support@mailfence.com.
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– Mailfence Team
It would be great if users could configure this in the settings without having to contact your admin team. Is this functionality in your roadmap?
Yes you are right, and this is on our roadmap.
Kind regards,
Mailfence Team
Is it possible to add multiple domains?
Dear Kufu,
Yes you can add several domains to one address.
Patrick
Do you support the following setup on Entry plan?
– 3 own domain names
– 2 different accounts
– account #1 uses these aliases: alias1@domain1, alias2@domain1, alias1@domain2, alias1@domain3
– account #2 uses these aliases: alias2@domain2, alias2@domain3
So basically:
– using multiple domains on separate accounts
If it’s possible, does it require two Entry subscriptions or one can handle the whole setup? (I saw in the pricing that Entry supports 10 users)
Thanks
Dear,
Yes, what you ask for is supported. Although, you would need two Entry accounts.
PS : the number of users is the number of people that can join one of your groups.
Arnaud
Thanks for the quick reply, I’m glad that it’s supported.
One more thing: I saw that someone wrote that catch all email is in development. Is there a plan when will you release it?
Dear,
It is scheduled for one of our next releases. I will keep you posted.
Regards,
Patrick