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Proper mailboxes on your own domain.

Real inboxes at your own address — you@yourbusiness.com — that work in Apple Mail, Outlook, Gmail on your phone, or the webmail here. Not forwarding to a personal address. And the settings that decide whether your mail arrives instead of landing in spam are written for you.

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  1. 01

    Create a mailbox

    An address on a domain you already manage here, with as much storage as you want to give it.

  2. 02

    The settings get written

    The DNS entries that route your mail and prove it is genuinely from you are added automatically.

  3. 03

    Use whatever app you like

    It works with Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, your phone, or the webmail included here.

Inboxes, not forwarding

Forwarding to a personal address is fine until you need to reply as the business address, keep a copy of what you sent, or hand the account over to somebody else. These are real mailboxes with real storage that work in whatever mail app the person already uses.

The mailboxes on one domain, with how much space each one has and has used.
The mailboxes on one domain, with how much space each one has and has used.

The settings that decide whether mail arrives

Mail systems check three things before trusting a message: which servers are allowed to send as you, a signature proving the message was not tampered with, and what to do if either check fails. Getting them wrong is why a form notification ends up in spam. Because your DNS and your mail live in the same place here, they are written correctly when you create the mailbox.

Send your WordPress email through it

Point a site's mail settings at a mailbox on its own domain, and password resets, order confirmations and contact form notifications stop being sent anonymously by the web server. That anonymous sending is the actual reason they go missing.

One bill, one place to look

Hosting in one account, DNS in a second and email in a third means three renewal dates and an argument about whose fault it is when mail stops. This is the same account, the same people and the same invoice.

Common questions

Are these real mailboxes or just forwarding?

Real mailboxes with their own storage that you can reach from any mail app. You can send as the address, and what you send is kept on the server rather than only on the device you typed it on.

Will this stop my WordPress emails going to spam?

It deals with the usual cause. Most missing WordPress mail is sent straight from the web server, from an address with no reputation and nothing proving it is really you. Sending it through a proper mailbox on your own domain, with the right settings in place, is the fix.

Can I use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 instead?

Yes. Point your domain's mail settings at them in the DNS editor and nothing else changes. The mailboxes here exist because a second supplier is not worth the trouble for a small team, not because you have to use them.

What happens to my mail if I leave?

It is already on your devices, and any mail app can export it. There is no unusual format to extract it from.

Keep reading

Domains & emailDomains & DNSDNS is the address book of the internet. It tells browsers which server your domain lives on, and tells mail systems where to deliver your email. Run it here and the entries for the sites you host are written and kept up to date for you, including the ones that decide whether your email arrives at all.ReadWordPressWordPress sitesPick a server, pick a domain, and WPShift installs WordPress, sets up a database, gets the security certificate and puts the site online. You can also copy a site you already run here, or move one across from your current host.ReadWorking togetherTeam accessInstead of one account whose password is written down somewhere, each person gets their own, and you decide what each of them can do. Group your work so a client can see their own sites and nobody else's. When somebody leaves, you remove them without changing anything for anyone else.ReadInfrastructureCloud serversYou open an account with a cloud company like Hetzner or DigitalOcean, and give WPShift permission to use it. We build the server, install everything WordPress needs, and look after it from then on. The server sits in your account, on your bill, and stays there if you ever stop using us.Read

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