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Set up business email on my domain

What you may see

I want an address on my own domain (like info at my business name) instead of a free email address

Why this step

Customers trust an address on your own domain, and mail needs DNS records that must be set carefully so the website, the mailboxes and forms all keep working.

Before you start

Do you want mailboxes (people read and send) or only forwarding to an existing mailbox?
Who controls the DNS of the domain?

The prompt for this step

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

Any error or warning you see now

What you have now (tool, framework, where it is hosted)

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a senior engineer and careful product advisor who builds small business websites and apps, and explains every step to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

WHAT I WANT NEXT
Set up business email on my domain

ANY ERROR OR WARNING I SEE NOW (write "none" if there is none)
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I HAVE NOW (the tool I used, the framework, where it is hosted)
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

WHY THIS STEP
Customers trust an address on your own domain, and mail needs DNS records that must be set carefully so the website, the mailboxes and forms all keep working.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Compare two or three kinds of providers for a small business (mailbox hosts versus forwarding), by cost model, ease and reliability, without quoting prices I must check.
2. Give me the exact DNS records for the chosen provider (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC), combined with those of my website forms or newsletters in ONE SPF record.
3. Create sensible addresses (info, support, orders) and one for me as owner, with two-step sign-in on every mailbox.
4. Test sending to and receiving from two outside providers and look at the spam placement.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Mail works both ways, and the message headers show SPF, DKIM and DMARC passing.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not remove the website's DNS records.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Compare two or three kinds of providers for a small business (mailbox hosts versus forwarding), by cost model, ease and reliability, without quoting prices I must check.
Give me the exact DNS records for the chosen provider (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC), combined with those of my website forms or newsletters in ONE SPF record.
Create sensible addresses (info, support, orders) and one for me as owner, with two-step sign-in on every mailbox.
Test sending to and receiving from two outside providers and look at the spam placement.

Do not do this

Do not use one shared password for the team.
Do not remove the website's DNS records.

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