--- title: "How to Set Up Business Email on Your Domain | GlobalHostia" url: "https://globalhostia.com/guides/business-email-setup" description: "Set up email on your own domain: choose a mail service, create mailboxes, add MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and connect phones and desktop apps step by step." source: "GlobalHostia; prices are synced from the billing system and exclude any taxes shown at checkout" --- Guide # How to set up business email on your domain Create mailboxes, add MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, and connect phones and desktop apps to email on your own domain. 7 minute read · Prices on this page are live from our billing system ## On this page 1. [Hosting mailboxes or a workspace suite?](#options) 2. [Set it up step by step](#steps) 3. [If mail is not arriving](#trouble) 4. [Questions](#ln-faq-h) Rather ask a person? [WhatsApp our team](https://wa.me/971507341578?text=Hello%20GlobalHostia%2C%20I%20have%20a%20question%20about%20%22How%20to%20set%20up%20business%20email%20on%20your%20domain%22.) ## Hosting mailboxes or a workspace suite? Hosting mailboxes compared with a workspace suite | What to compare | Mailboxes with hosting | Workspace suite | | --- | --- | --- | | Email on your domain | Yes | Yes | | Webmail and phone apps | Yes | Yes | | Shared calendars, documents, video meetings | No | Yes | | Pricing | Included with hosting plans | Per user, per month or year | | Best for | Teams that mainly need email | Teams that collaborate all day | ## Set it up step by step 1. ### Choose where your email lives Use the mailboxes included with your hosting, or a dedicated service such as Google Workspace when you also want shared calendars and documents. Both are on our [business email page](https://globalhostia.com/google-workspace). 2. ### Create the mailboxes In the control panel (or the email service’s admin console) create each address, such as info@, sales@ and your own name, with a strong password. 3. ### Point the MX records MX records tell the world where to deliver mail for your domain. Set them to the values your mail service gives you and remove old MX records. ` @ MX 10 mail.yourdomain.com. ` 4. ### Add SPF An SPF TXT record lists the servers allowed to send mail as your domain. Keep a single SPF record and include every service that sends for you. ` @ TXT "v=spf1 include: ~all" ` 5. ### Turn on DKIM Enable DKIM signing in your control panel or mail service, then publish the TXT record it shows. Receiving servers use it to check your mail was not altered. 6. ### Publish a DMARC policy Start with a monitoring policy, read the reports for a few weeks, then tighten it. ` _dmarc TXT "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@yourdomain.com" ` 7. ### Connect phones and computers Add the account in your mail app with IMAP for incoming and SMTP for outgoing mail, using the server names and ports from your welcome email, with SSL/TLS turned on. 8. ### Send a test Send to and from an outside address, check that it does not land in spam, and look at the message headers for `spf=pass`, `dkim=pass` and `dmarc=pass`. ## If mail is not arriving - **Check the MX records** with a DNS checker; old records can still be cached for a few hours. - **Make sure there is only one SPF record.** Two SPF records make both fail. - **Look in spam** on the receiving side and read the headers to see which check failed. ## More hosting guides - [How to move a website to Globalhostia](https://globalhostia.com/guides/move-website-to-hostia) - [How to point a domain or change nameservers](https://globalhostia.com/guides/change-nameservers) - [How to install WordPress](https://globalhostia.com/guides/install-wordpress) - [How to install an SSL certificate](https://globalhostia.com/guides/install-ssl) [All hosting guides](https://globalhostia.com/guides) **Price-lock**your renewal price never goes up **30-day money-back on shared hosting** - [**Free website migration**](https://globalhostia.com/free-migration) **24/7 engineers by ticket & WhatsApp** ## How to set up business email on your domain: questions ### Yes. Email depends only on the MX (and SPF, DKIM, DMARC) records, so your website can stay wherever it is. ### ### ### ## Not sure which plan you need? Answer four questions and get a recommendation from our live plans, or let our engineers move your site for free. [Open the plan finder](https://globalhostia.com/plan-finder)[Free website migration](https://globalhostia.com/free-migration)