Email Services
Set up and manage professional email accounts on your domain with EGPHP hosting.
17 articles in this category
Creating Email Accounts
Create and manage email accounts for your domain.
Email Client Setup (Outlook, Gmail)
Configure your email in Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, and more.
Email Forwarding
Forward emails to another address automatically.
SPF, DKIM & DMARC
Improve email deliverability with authentication records.
Aliases and forwarders
An alias delivers into a mailbox you already have. A forwarder sends the message on to somebody else - and that is where SPF breaks.
Autoresponders without the loop
An out-of-office reply that answers everything will eventually answer another autoresponder, forever. Three rules prevent it.
Catch-all addresses are usually a mistake
Accepting mail for every possible address at your domain sounds safe. It guarantees spam and hides the typo you needed to know about.
The site sends no mail at all
Contact forms and password resets go nowhere. Find out whether the mail left the server before blaming the receiver.
IMAP or POP3 - and why one of them loses mail
One keeps your mail on the server, the other moves it to a device. Choosing wrong is how a phone ends up holding the only copy.
Reading a bounce message
The bounce says exactly why in a code most people scroll past. What the first digit means and what to do about the common ones.
Your mail lands in spam
Three records decide whether a receiver trusts your mail. Set all three, in order, and check them from outside.
A mailbox that is full
Senders get a bounce and you get nothing. What is actually taking the space - it is rarely the inbox - and how to get back under.
Setting up a mailbox on a phone
Four settings and one choice. Get the choice wrong and mail disappears from every other device you own.
Recovering deleted mail
Deleted mail is often still on the server for a while. What to check, in the order that costs least, and when to stop and restore.
Sending mail from an application
PHP mail() hands your message to a local binary and tells you nothing. Authenticated SMTP is the same amount of code and actually arrives.
Transactional mail and newsletters
Send both from the same domain and one complaint about a newsletter can stop your password resets arriving. Separate them.
Warming a new sending domain
A new domain sending ten thousand messages on its first day looks exactly like a spammer. Build the volume over weeks.