Free Branded Email at Your Own Domain
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Email that matches your site
When you publish your site to your own domain, you get email to match — you@yourbusiness.com instead of a gmail or yahoo address, forwarding straight to the inbox you already use. Looking like a real business shouldn't cost extra. It doesn't.
What you get
- An address at your own domain (you@yourbusiness.com, info@, hello@ — your call).
- Mail to your domain forwards to your existing inbox. Replying from your own address is a quick one-time Gmail setup (we show you how).
- It's included with Published — there's no separate email add-on to buy.
"Set up for you" — what that means
You don't touch DNS records. When your domain goes live as part of the Published step, we wire up the records that make email forwarding work behind the scenes. Just turn forwarding on in your dashboard and pick where it goes.
When it's available
Free branded email comes with the Published step (your own domain). While your site is still free on its siteharbor.app address, there's no custom domain yet, so there's no branded email yet either — it switches on when you publish.
Want real mailboxes? Upgrade to send and receive
The only email we set up free is forwarding — it's receive-only. Mail to you@yourdomain lands in the inbox you already use, but you can't send out from your domain with it. To actually send and receive from you@yourbusiness.com, you need a real mailbox at your domain, which is a paid plan from an email provider:
- Proton — Mail Plus for one inbox, or Business for a team. The paid plan we use ourselves.
- Zoho Mail — a paid alternative if you'd rather use them.
Proton and Zoho are independent companies, not part of your SiteGlowUp plan. If you sign up for Proton through this link, we may receive Proton account credit at no extra cost to you.
A switch, not an add-on. A domain routes its mail to one place (its MX record), so turning on Zoho or Proton mailboxes replaces our free forwarding — you can't run both at the same time. It's a one-time DNS change, and each provider has a setup wizard that walks you through it.
Related help
- Buying Your Web Address — the Published step
- Setting Up Email on Your Domain
- What's free, what's $12, what's $299