mailshogun

Screenshots

In many casees after a Wordress website has been built, there is also a need to add emails that will be branded with the website domain. It’s a personalized email address using your domain name. For example name@mywordpressdomain.com. A business email address makes a great professional impression. Here are some options you may want to start with: name@mywordpressdomain.com sales@mywordpressdomain.com contact@mywordpressdomain.com There are several solutons that makes this happen but eash one of them has it some disadvantages. Domain registrant such as GoDaddy and other offer mail forwarding service. Which means you can define that info@mywordpressdomain.com wil be forwarded to infomywordpressdomain@gmail.com. The limitation of these solutions, is that this is only one side direction. If you want to send back and email it won’t have yourdomain suffix. It will be an email that comes from Gmail which in some cases might makes you look less serious and corporate. Other solutions are buy addresses from third party email providers. The most popular service is Gsuite by Google. If you want to have name@mywordpressdomain.com with Gsuite, you will have to open new “company” in Gsuite and then define every address. Every address has it’s own storage. Limitations are – high price (around $5 per mailbox per month), and all the defintions of the addresses is done from eternal dashboard. Another disadvanage is that every address is a real mailbox. If employee1@mywordpressdomain.com should move to employee2@mywordpressdomain.com all past mails of 1 are staying forever in the storage of 1. It is very complicated to move these emails to another box. Mailshogon overcomes all these disadvanges with these unique features: – It is mailfowarding system but you can also send back emails from your gmail and your customer will rececive the email not from gmail but from your unique domain. It is a full solution in both sides. – Because it doesn’t reall has inbox of each address it is very flexible- you can open, delete, modify addresses very easy. Everything will arrive anyhow towards your Gmail. – It is a perfect many-to-one solutoin. Perhaps you have info, webmaster, contact, sales emails. You can forward all of them to one Gmail address. – All mail defintions is done from the WordPress standard admin dashboard – like any other plugin. – And it is very cheap. One address is free and others are $10 per year. Which is 1/6 the price of Gsuite. Important Since, mailshogun plugin is communicating with external mail servers in order to provide its service. It means, that the plugin is not independent. make sure that your firewall or IP mapping has access to https://api.mailshogun.com. Just to explain you how it works – If you define one address from info@my-domain.com that will be forwarded to info-my-domain@gmail.com, this information is stored in mailshogun servers and configure the servers accordingly. The actual forwarding is done there. This is exacly how it works if you define Gsuite or other external email. In addition to the communication with mailshogun servers, there is also connection to Paypal. This is optional, only if you choose to use the premium version that will allow forwarding of more addresss. The free version has 1 address.