Our hosting services include email, but if you wish to host your email with an 3rd party provider, this guide will walk you through setting this up. To ensure this works as expected your domain name first needs to be using our nameservers,
ns1.purely.website
ns3.purely.website
ns2.purely.website
How to setup external email records
- Login to your hosting account via https://cp.purely.website.
- Click on the website you wish to setup external email records for.
- Using the top menu click Domains, then click again on your domain name.
- Click Mail routing settings, then tick Remote Mail.
- You will now be shown the message, Email MX records needed. Remote mail requires MX records to be added for your chosen email provider. Add your MX records using the DNS records tool below.
- Click the Add Record button, using the drop down under the heading Type, select MX and enter the Hostname, Priority, Target domain and TTL as provided by your email supplier.
- Click Create. Repeat this as many times as needed.
How to setup external email records for gmail
- Login to your hosting account via https://cp.purely.website.
- Click on the website you wish to setup external email records for.
- Using the top menu click Domains, then click again on your domain name.
- Click Mail routing settings, then tick Remote Mail.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page, under the heading Auto configuration, click the red Gmail button.
- This will auto populate your domain names DNS with the required Gmail MX records, click Add Record to apply these. (Note this will replace any existing MX records).
- That’s it, your domain name is now ready to use Gmail as a remote email provider.
