10 - Set Up Your Blog's Email Account

To set up an email account for your new domain name, log in to your GoDaddy account with your user number and password.

Click on “My Account.”

Click on “Hosting & Email” and then click on “Email Accounts” on the drop-down list.

Click on “Manage Free Accounts.”

Click on “Setup Free Domain Email Account (25 MB/1 Box).” This is for non GoDaddy-hosted domain names (we’re hosting your domain on Typepad or some other blog server).

Enter your Email Account:
You can say (yourname)@(yourdomain).com or info@yourdomain.com. For example, I chose Barbara@bloggingwithbarbara.com.

Enter a password (twice) that you’ll remember and that’s between 5 and 32 number and/or letter characters. Don’t forget to record your email password in your GoDaddy file folder.

Enable Spam Filtering?
Your choice. If you set spam filtering too high, you might miss customer emails. You can come back and set that up later, after you see how big the spam issue is. The default setting is “No.”

Incoming Mailbox Size:
The default size is already set.

Is this a catch-all account?
Check “No.”

Accept Non-Western Messages?
Depends on how many non Latin-based languages you and your customers know and what country you live in.

Forward Carbon Copy?
Leave blank.

Outgoing Mail – SMTP Relaying:
Leave as is for now.

Set An Autoresponder for This Account?
Check “No.” Only do this for vacation “away” messages. If you set it for every email you receive, you’ll tick people off who get your automated messages every time they try to reach you.

Click “Save Settings.”

Now you’re back on your “Manage Free Email Accounts” page.

You have two different ways of handling your email – either with a web-based email box or through email forwarding.

View Mail in Your Web-Based Email Box:

Click on “Launch Web-Based Email” to open up your mailbox. Bookmark the page so you can access it easily to check your mail every day.

You can set your spam settings, make file folders to store saved mail, add contacts into you address book. Just remember this is web-based email and only holds 25 MB. You can upgrade to a paid email account plan if this isn’t enough storage…

OR

Forward (Redirect) Your Email:

You can re-direct (forward) your blog’s email to your main email account (or any other email account).

Click on “Manage Email Forwarding” and then on “Setup Account.”

Click on “Use a domain name hosted or registered at GoDaddy.” Enter the email address you want to forward (for example: Barbara@bloggingwithbarbara.com).

In the “Redirect Mail” box, enter the email address where you normally receive your email (or some other email address where you’d like your blog’s email forwarded).

Click “Save Settings” and you’re done.