Email addresses @mydomain.com
 

I'm trying to help someone set up a couple email addresses with person'[email protected]. Previously I just used Google Apps, which would let you set up 10 for free, but it looks like about a month ago they started charging $50/year per user just like the Business one. Is there still some easy way to set it up for free on a decent platform, or should I tell them to suck it up and pay our Google overlords the money?

You can still do a work around (I haven't tried this)

Free Google Apps is Still Available ! Here are the Steps to Signup

Zoho offers 3 users for free.

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Also I guess Microsoft offers Windows Live Mail for free up to a point for domains.

https://domains.live.com/?wa=wsignin1.0

Yeah, Microsoft Live was the one I'm checking on... I don't see why I can't set it up over there and forward any emails sent to those addresses on to their personal gmail accounts (or a different one they set up) if they hate the Hotmail interface that much. I guess I was just surprised google apps started charging and didn't think it through.

I thought google apps were only charging new users.

I just buy a domain name and forward the emails to my gmail account. You can configure gmail so that the correct address appears as the "reply to" address.

But if the person doesn't have a Google Apps account you still need somewhere to host the domain... even with forwarding.

With email forwarding I usually just set everything up on the domain name company's online dashboard.

The only time I ever hosted the domain for email was when I was setting up about a dozen addresses, and it was easier to do it that way.