I bought domain names on AWS Route53.
I launched the websites on S2.
Now, I cannot setup new email addresses.
SES/EC2 are ready-to-go solutions.
I want to:
Create new email addresses ASAP (business trip in 10 days)
Simple daily-email, no newsletters, no mass emails
Ready-to-go solution, no installing/configuring of complex technical systems like Linux, Ubuntu, SquirrelMail, Google Apps systems...
I was referred by a MX record based system used by Outlook; unfortunately this service is no longer available.
Questions:
Is there any easy and simple solution using Route 53/SES/EC2 ?
Or, any 3rd party service that I can use ? (ideally, something free – I do not want to pay 50$/year per user)
There is a pretty straight-forward free service that I'm using called Zoho:
https://www.zoho.com/mail/
I'm new to it as well, so I can't speak to its reliability, but setup is pretty easy. It will have you verify your account by creating a record set in your 'Hosted Zone' page in Route 53.
for creating webmail there's a WorkMail option on aws services. you can create an email account there.
first click on add organization button . then go to quick setup. fill the requirements. after it's done click on the organization name that you already created and create a user.
enter a username and password that you want. after creating user , you can find the webmail url on "organization setting tab".
the WorkMail can integrates nicely with SES.
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Hej there,
I am currently try to find a solution for showing an avatar to the e-mails sent by own organization. Our e-mails are not bound to Google Workspace, because we don't want to pay for features that we're not using.
So far I added a BIMI DNS entry to our domain (currently without DKMI). I tried to figure out how other people / organizations solve the problem, but could find neither a BIMI TXT DNS entry on their domain nor an entry on Gravatar. Possibly they have an Google Workspace account, but maybe there is another solution I could not find yet.
Has anybody an idea how to get our avatar to e. g. Gmail e-mail boxes?
(Yes, I know about X-Face or Face header in e-mail, but I don't think that Gmail supports them – I also could not find them in any e-mail)
The official solution is to reference a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) in your BIMI record. This handles all of your email addresses at once. Your logo needs to be registered as a trademark, and you will need to purchase a VMC from DigiCert or Entrust. The cost to register a trademark is roughly $660, plus attorney fees, and the cost to purchase a VMC is $1,499 per year.
The solution provided by #HTeaMeuLeu is a free alternative for anyone who can't afford a VMC.
Create a Google account with your company's email address.
Change the profile picture to your company's logo.
Wait up to 48 hours for the logo to become visible in the inbox.
Do not create the Google account using the "To manage my business" option. This account type isn't able to change its profile picture, and the account type can't be changed after its created.
For everyone else:
First, you will need complete the BIMI specification. Then, you will need to complete any additional requirements that each email service provider may have to display the logo in their inbox. This tutorial walks you through the process and explains everything you need to know.
Here’s a detailed article on how to do this for a newsletter: Logos in the Inbox: Gmail.
You basically need to create a Google account without Gmail (at https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail) and setup your image there.
I just created a static website that is hosted on google storage. My domain is also registered with google domains and I have a business G suite account.
My static website has a 'contact us' form and I wonder if it is possible to use gmail or gsuite (or any gcp services) to send the content of the form as an email to my gmail address.
I know there's services like mailgun, etc. But I'd rather do it using tools from google if possible.
Does anybody know how to do this?
There is a very good option that you can use, within the range of Google products, to achieve the goal of sending emails via Contact Form, with your static website.
This option is actually easy and very simple to configure, I would say, which it's to use the serveless product Cloud Functions. To provide some context on it, you can make the functions trigger via HTTPS request, so it works with your site and you will be able to use it for free, for up to 625 thousands forms submissions per month. I would recommend you to give a look at it, in this complete tutorial here, where you can find the steps.
In addition to this option, you can use Mailgun as you mentioned, but in association with GCP products, to give you this service. You can use Mailgun to send the emails, Cloud Datastore to keep records of it and Cloud Functions to work with these two services. More information can be found in this similar case here.
To summarize, as you would prefer to use tools from Google, to follow the first tutorial, where you will be using Cloud Functions only, to configure your service.
Firebase hosting requires that a TXT setting be set up to as they call it
Prove the domain is yours
I purchased a domain. It is mine. In order to set this TXT setting I have to have the domain hosted. The place I purchased the domain from sells hosting for minimum one year at a time. What is the point of firebase hosting when I have to buy hosting somewhere in order to prove that the domain is mine? Is there any way to get around this catch 22?
Proving ownership is done by putting a TXT record in the DNS. This doesn't require that you have a website hosted yet, it merely requires access to the DNS settings for your domain.
It's hard to help beyond that without knowing where you registered your domain.
Update. I took Frank's advice and set up a few Namecheap accounts. Wowie! The discount names are as cheap as 50 cents/year if you buy 1 or 5 years. Thanx for the advice. There is a caveat to using Namecheap/firebase, however.
Do not take this as if I were looking a gift horse in the mouth. I am super grateful to Google for free hosting. I merely want to warn users that firebase is not a free country. Google forces the s religion. I put in many hours of work to create my website using my girlfriend's hosting MySQL. Her hosting platform does not have an s in the URL: https. So the Angular 5 HTTP calls barf. I also included a contact page and a share via email popup. I used my girlfriend's hosting and set up a poor man's PHP web service for that. That does not work because girlfriend's hosting uses HTTP not https. So now I have to go back and recode these backend connections to use Google firebase and Google functions/SendGrid. I could have done that from the get-go and saved myself the time and aggravation.
I recently acquired a domain while buying a logo and some business cards through logomaker.com. I took this opportunity to claim the domain that I want to use for my rails app on heroku (Was this a mistake?).
Currently I seem to be required to use Weebly to edit the site for this new domain (But I'm thinking about transferring the domain to my GoDaddy account for simplicity. Is this a good idea?) I'm trying to route the simple domain to my rails app. In other words, I want users to be able to type mrzschool.com and get routed to mrzschool.herokuapp.com. I haven't been able to find a way to do this through Weebly.
I also have access to DNS and nameserver settings, such as imap and pop, through logomaker.com. This seems like it might be a way to change the routing, but I'm realizing that I'm unschooled in the realm of domains and DNS.
I'd suggest you go through the the process of moving your domain registrar from logomaker to your goDaddy account, were you can keep an eye on this domain along side any other domains you've there. It's a tedious process but worth it in my opinion. However, it's optional since you have all the control you need to do that via logomaker.
The heroku docs mentions (found here) how you can point your own custom domain to your heroku app subdomain. Keep in mind that you will need to verify your account and your ownership of the domain.
You will also find some useful troubleshooting steps here.
I have signed up earlier for the google apps account which is now called as legacy and the primary domain has got expired. I am trying to bootstrap a startup ourselves and thought of using this legacy account. below are the steps I tried so see if I can change the primary domain. let me know if anyone of you know about any existing solutions.
No option to add a secondary domain because its a legacy account. Google removed the option.
Added our new domain as a domain alias.
Went through the GAM tool, Admin SDK.
There are couple of options which I could think off to achieve this.
Upgrade the google legacy account to a 30 day trial account and get the option to add a secondary domain and then make the primary domain change and downgrade. However, from what I have read in the internet, there is a risk where when I downgrade there would be only 1 license to use.
https://www.isaumya.com/how-to-change-primary-domain-for-google-apps-legacy-account/ here is a website telling me they have a script to run and make these changes and asking for 30 dollars.
https://github.com/marcelobern/Google-Admin-SDK-Domain This is another option that I came across.
I know it a sounds a bit crude but I am just trying to use a freebie till we get a funding for the startup :) Let me know if anyone of you have any solutions.
If you do the free trial, you will gain the ability to add a domain rather than a domain alias. However, you will not be able to downgrade back to legacy free until you remove the domain. (I tried this on an account I was willing to lose).
For your purposes I think you could get away with using the domain alias. Your users will need to sign in under the old primary domain name but your users can configure your domain alias as the default outgoing email address under settings/Accounts/Send mail as.