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452 practical guides to business email on your own domain: DNS records, deliverability, the email API and honest comparisons with Google Workspace, Zoho and others.
The highest-impact reads for teams setting up email on their own domain.
Guides
How to get professional email like you@yourcompany.com for free — what you need, DNS setup, mailbox limits, and the best options for small teams.
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Guides
Gmail and Yahoo for client work hurt trust, deliverability, and security. Here is what goes wrong — and what to use instead.
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Guides
Trust, branding, deliverability, team access, and security — the concrete upside of you@yourcompany.com over a personal inbox.
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Guides
Create you@yourcompany.com in under an hour — domain, provider, DNS records, first mailbox, and test send. No technical background required.
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Comparisons
Google has no free business tier in 2026. Here are realistic alternatives for teams that need you@company.com without $105/month in Workspace fees.
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Comparisons
Mailgun alternative for small business: compare pricing, inbox needs and DNS setup, and see why small teams want email hosting and an API in one place.
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106 articles
Setup, strategy, and getting started with business email.
Once an email reaches another mail server it cannot be taken back. What Outlook recall and Gmail undo send really do, and the habits that make wrong sends rare.
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Writing business email in English: a five-part structure, twenty safe phrases, words to avoid, mistakes readers notice, and two rewritten examples.
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How to set up a group address like sales@yourdomain.com that reaches several people at once, when to use one, and how to create it in OquMail.
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42 articles
MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and provider-specific walkthroughs.
Tell whether a domain uses Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho, a web host or a forwarding service from its MX records, plus the SPF and DKIM clues.
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Nameservers answer DNS questions for your domain. Learn what nameservers are, how to find yours, and how to tell which panel controls your email records.
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A CNAME record makes one hostname an alias of another. Learn when email setup uses a CNAME record and why you can never put one on the root domain.
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58 articles
Inbox placement, bounces, reputation, and authentication.
550 5.4.1 Access denied means the recipient's Microsoft 365 tenant does not know the address. What senders can do, and the MX fix if the domain is yours.
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What the Outlook.com S3150 and S3140 bounce means, why it names your provider's network, who can request delisting, and what to check on your domain.
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Gmail rejects mail with 550 5.7.26 when neither SPF nor DKIM passes for your domain. What each line of the bounce means, the usual causes, and the fix.
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54 articles
How OquMail compares to Google, Zoho, Mailgun, SendGrid, and more.
Brevo vs Mailchimp for small business email marketing: free plans, contact vs volume pricing, transactional email, automation and CRM, plus a free option.
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Fastmail vs Zoho Mail for a small team: IMAP and JMAP, free plan, storage, custom domains, DNS setup and real cost at 5 and 15 users, with a free third option.
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GoDaddy Microsoft 365 bundle vs buying Microsoft 365 direct: plan differences, admin restrictions, mailbox size, migration pain and cost at 5 and 15 users.
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50 articles
Transactional sending, no-reply mail, and SaaS integrations.
Cloud hosts block outbound port 25, so mail from a VPS or container never leaves. Use SMTP on 587 or the HTTPS API: msmtp for cron, curl for containers.
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Email your team from GitLab CI: a notify job in the .post stage, a masked variable for the key, safe commit-message escaping, success and failure variants.
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Build abandoned cart emails in your own code: when to send, how many, what consent you need, the content that recovers carts, and the send API request.
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142 articles
Startups, industries, migrations, and growing past the free plan.
Copy-ready appointment emails for clinics, salons and trades: confirmation, reminder, reschedule, missed appointment, cancellation, follow-up.
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Email for a partnership or family firm: who owns the domain, owner and admin roles, a mailbox each, shared addresses as groups, and if someone leaves.
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How to send cold business email from a new domain without landing in spam: authentication, a slow start, one-to-one messages, the law.
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Collections
Two sorted collections: ready-to-send templates for the emails every business writes, and setup guides for your line of work.
Most small businesses send the same ten emails again and again: a quote, a reminder, a thank-you, a chase for an unpaid invoice. These pages give you the words.
Browse the collectionA plumber and a therapist do not need the same email setup. One wants estimates@ with two people reading it; the other wants one private address and a separate one for billing. These guides go trade by trade.
Browse the collection49 countries
Which domain ending to pick, which local registrars take local payment, and the mistakes that are common in your market. The mailboxes are free everywhere.