About Your Name Inbox

Your Name Inbox is a small reference about email at your own domain. It covers the kinds of address you can make, how mail apps connect, what to plan before changing providers, and how to look after accounts over time.

It's written for people who aren't technical: a shop owner, a club volunteer, a freelancer. Sentences are short, and each new word is explained when it first appears. The pictures are drawn for this site.

Facts come from public sources, such as internet standards, help pages from mail and software companies, and Wikipedia. Each guide page lists its sources at the bottom, and the facts link to them. Where a page uses one company's screens as an example, that is only an example. This site doesn't review or rank email providers.

Some things are left out on purpose. Setting up the domain's DNS records, proving your mail is genuine, newsletters, and spotting scam emails each need their own space.

Settings and menus change. Check your own provider's help pages for the current steps.

There are no ads, affiliate links or sponsors here.