Setting up email after buying domain

[Jose Jimenez]

I need some advice please. I'm on the verge of buying a domain and need to sort out some email addresses. Do I need to set up hosting (?) for the email and set up the A record accordingly to point to that service? I don't want to set this up with the domain registrar. Thereafter its case of setting up via a mail program like Outlook.

 

[arnydnxluk]

That's correct, you need to either purchase email hosting (e.g. Google G-Suite) or a standard shared web hosting plan which includes mailboxes.

Then to configure your domain for email, you can do one of two things:

a) Configure the relevant DNS records with your domain registrar. For email this will involve, at minimum, setting MX records (rather than an A record).

b) Set your domain's nameservers to those supplied by your hosting provider.

 

[Web Hosting UK]

If you choose a hosting provider which has cPanel you can do it easily within their control panel. Very simple process

 

[Jose Jimenez]

Ah yes, it is MX rather than A. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Joe Smith780]

You can use third person service such as Google emails premium service, or you can use a service that your host offers. For example Godaddy has a free redirection for emails service.

 

[Bruce.D]

You need a email service provider such as G suite or Microsoft Office 365. Then setup MX records at the DNS. Not necessarily to setup A records. Then setup your Email client.

 

[Russ Michaels]

All hosting comes with email, but it is basic no frills with limits. So it depends how critical email is to your business.
If you cannot afford for your email to stop working, or for emails to go missing, and want to keep all your email stored in the cloud rather than on your computer, where it would all be lost if you had a disk failure. Then I recommend you go with Google GSuite or Office365, both of which offer far more redundancy, reliability and features than standard hosted email.
Personally I prefer GSuite, and have been using this for many years for all my clients

 

[Andrew_P]

1. Buy domain
2. Buy Gsuite (it's cheap) which will host your mailboxes (it's gmail with your domain)

That's it.