hi guys and welcome back to another ibra corp video
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today i'm just going to go through hopefully it's going to be a quick video on how to use your own
domain and have a custom email address using gmail without having to pay for anything like
formerly known as g suite or a paid mail provider i will stress that this isn't the best approach
it's not the industry standard approach and you may find that emails used in this
fashion could end up in in a lot of junk email folders if you're trying to send out
but um look in my case i i just haven't jumped over to another service yet it is in the pipeline
and i will make a video about that in future when we switch over but for the past probably year
i've been using this method so i can use a gmail account and on the other end have professional
looking email addresses that people can contact and then have them in my inbox in gmail
so you know the motto let's just get stuck into it so i'm here in my google account for ibra core
and our email address with ibracorp is ibracorp.io gmail.com
okay now that doesn't look like anything too fancy that's just a normal gmail account
although the real magic happens here in your domain so if you are using google domains this
is where you would be making the changes if you're using any other domain provider
you'll have to find the email section and i assume that it'll probably be very similar
basically under the email section you you'll see an option here for get a custom email address
so this is where they try to sell you google workspace which formerly used to be known as
g suite and this allows you to have a custom email address however you have to pay for it so if you
wanted to do it on the if you are a business and you want to do this on a real professional level i
do recommend the google workspace however you know if you're just doing a home lab and you want to
have that professional sort of appearance and have that professional relationship with your customers
then just scroll down a little bit and you'll see here email forwarding so all this does is it
allows you to pick an address with your domain as the ending and you just get it to forward to your
gmail account okay this is this is phase one the next phase after this which i'll show you
is how we configure it in gmail so that you can also send from this address so so that we can
send from this address for example or this one or any of these other ones that we've set up so just
for the purpose of this video i'm actually going to create a new one and we'll go add email alias
under the alias email we can put we can put youtube and as you can see the ending is already
there because it's going by our domain so then the existing recipient email will be our gmail account
like so and then we click add
now that's pretty much it for this screen if you've watched my previous video on setting
up cloudflare which i recommend you do i walk through adding a couple of dns entries
into our dns and those are the mx records so i'll go back to them real quick so we're back
in cloudflare here just to show you what the mx records look like so without these mx records here
you won't be able to get your gmail account to work sending emails via the domain so you need
to make sure that you've got these in here so if i just click on this one for example
you see the breakdown of what makes up this entry so we've got the domain name the mail server
automatic time to live and the priorities so the priorities are all important as well this
this is given directly from google if you were to go to their documentation this is how they
have written it so i'm just saving you time by reading it here so as you can see same thing
applies and you can pretty much just copy these guys if you're using gmail as your mail
provider using any other mail provider smtp server your settings will be different but
you need to make sure that these mx entries are here on your dns
even if they're a different mail provider okay an html provider will have their own instructions
anyway and what to put in there so i would recommend just you know if you're with mailchimp
mail gun whatever follow those instructions okay but in our case we're using gmail so we've already
made sure that this is in our dns and then we can continue with where we left off so we've
created our youtuber ibracorp.io and it forwards to our gmail account all right so let's say you
want to now send out from your gmail as youtube at ibracorp well pretty simple we'll go to settings
go to see all settings
accounts and import and as you can see i've got a few a few in here already we're going
to add a new one so it's going to open up this pop-up we've given it a name ibra corp
youtube and for the email address it'll be the one that we've set up on our domain
we'll click on treat as an alias if i'm sending from this address i want replies to
come back to this address as well but if you didn't you can specify a different reply to
okay so you can put like no reply for example or something like that
so click next step it's in here it's going to put in what it thinks your smtp server is in our
case because we're using gmail we will say smtp gmail.com the username is going to be your gmail
email address okay because that is technically a username with gmail
now for the password so to be able to use this you actually need to use what they call app passwords
okay you can't just use your account password for gmail and this provides you an extra layer of
security because at any point you can just remove the app passwords so if you don't know how to do
that you need to get to your google account so as you can see this is our google account here
then you can go to security and under security you'll see app passwords let's just hit that
it's going to ask you to sign in we'll just do that
and as you can see i've got some existing ones here it does not let you
see an existing app password once you've created it okay um it can only it only lets you remove it
and that's part of the security implementation of of the whole process
is that you create it once and wherever it is it's there only once and then for new ones you
would create new ones and you can remove them as well so as you can see here app passwords
let you sign into your google account from apps on devices that don't support two-step verification
you'll only need to enter at once so you don't need to remember it click select app mail
and we'll say other and we'll just call this
youtube email address for example we'll click generate
and now it's going to give us this password so for those watching don't worry i'll end
up deleting this after the video but for our purpose here we want this password so
you can just highlight it and click copy i recommend leaving this open for now
head back to that little pop-up we had and where it asks for password we'll just put password in
there make sure your port is 587 if you're using smtp for gmail because it is the tls port so it
is a secure port so make sure secured connection using tls is checked and then click add account
so the next screen you'll see is it's going to send you a code to verify
so if we go back to our email address and we head over to our updates you'll see how
that has given us a code so just make sure you copy that code paste the code in click verify
and that should be it so now if we go to a new email compose a new email you can see we've got
youtube here as an option to send from and that basically lets you send it anywhere and appear
from that address and as you can tell it just looks a lot more professional so the only sort of
downside that i've found using this process is like i said some emails will end up in the
receivers spam and that really depends on a lot of things i think you have to make sure your emails
are compliant with relevant regulations such as having an unsubscribe option you know things
like that so you know it may not be the best long-term solution and i'm happy to admit that
but if you want something to get you going and want to look professional without costing you
anything and avoid using just a gmail.com account you know this is a great option for you and you
know you can always ask people if it's going to be something static to just make sure that they keep
the address whitelisted so i hope that's helped if you need any more assistance please comment
down below i know it's just a brief one but it's one that i get asked quite a bit and it's a really
easy one to do so i hope it's helped you out and i'll look forward to seeing you in the next
video
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