: Email forwarding to Gmail accounts instead of maintaining a mail server? I want to set up 4-5 email addresses on my newly purchased domain (from namecheap.com), for team size of just 2-3 people.

@Murray432

For me drawbacks of this approach is becoming more and more dependable on Google overall. We are already Google products ourselves. Google sell our data to data brokers, pass to NSA, use it to push pestilent ads, etc. We give away our privacy a little each day. And in this case it is not about your personal box for spam but a business email account.

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@Berumen354

You can try Google Apps But now is not "free", and you have to pay if you want to use "email services" from Google GMail. it says in Google Apps Pricing you have to pay /user/month or /user/month if you want to pay "more". You can try it for free for 30 days if you want.

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@Eichhorn148

One disadvantage is that sending email from Gmail would not appear to come from your domain name. It would come from the Gmail address.

There is a partial workaround. You could set the "reply to" email address in the Gmail account. But the instructions say that it will only change where replies go, not where the mail appears to come from:


Responses to messages you send with an alternate reply-to address are delivered to that address. Keep in mind that your Gmail address still appears in the From: field.


This could become an issue as you try to build a brand. It is more professional and better for the brand for your emails sent from your company email address.

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