How to set up your mailbox with register.radio

Mar 8, 2021Tutorials

Step by step guide to set up your email with your DotRadio Domain

In 2021, DotRadio is happy to offer you mailboxes available for your dotRadio domain names!

To benefit from this service, you need to be a customer of our store register.radio and not use external domain name servers (of your hosting provider for instance).

In this article, we will guide you through the steps to do in the smoothest way possible.

So, what it is about?

When you set up your mailboxes with your DotRadio domain name, you will be able to send and receive emails with addresses including your domain name. In other words, you will now be able to have mailboxes like contact@YourWebsiteName.radio.

This will allow you to communicate with people with more clarity about your activity. Now your mailboxes can be matching your website name which is great for your users and visitors.

The pricing is very low as it is 9euros/year. This will allow you to create up to 100 aliases (to forward emails to other email addresses for instance). The mailbox has a capacity of 5Go.
Emails will be available via webmail and/or mobiles or computers email clients.

If you have just subscribed to get your DotRadio mailboxe(s) or if you would like to know how to do it and activate it, this is a step by step guide that will answer all your questions.

If you don’t have your DotRadio domain name yet, go to this page for more informations. If you would like to buy and set up your DotRadio Domain name, check our blog post about it by clicking here.

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Step 1: Going to the settings

screen shot to register a dotradio domain name

The first step is very easy, just log into your account and click on “my Domains” as if you would like to check your domain information, subscriptions, etc.

Step 2: Going to settings

Once you click on “my Domains”, you should land on this page where all your domains are listed. Then, click on the little setting buttons next to the domain that you would like to manage (to set mailboxes feature)

Step 3: Going to mailboxes options

After clicking on the settings button, you should land on this page which lists all the settings of your DotRadio domain name. Here, simply click on the tab “mailboxes”.

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Step 4: Create your email address

Yes, you finally reach the thing you wanted to do from the beginning!

Now, you will be able to create email addresses that match your domain name.

Enter whatever name you would like in the first row, such as contact@YourWebsiteName.radio, info@YourWebsiteName.radio, YourName@YourWebsiteName.radio, etc.

You can choose anything you want.

Then enter your full name and choose a password, this will be useful to connect to your mailbox.

Finally, click on “create”.

At this stage you will have to pay the 9€ to subscribe to the service either by paying by credit card or by using your (positive) balance.

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Step 5: After the email is created

You should now see green messages explaining that your mailbox has been created. You will also have the yellow message that’s telling you there is some delay (maximum 48h) before you can fully use the email. If you scroll down, you will be able to see this:

In the first area it is your email that has been created, you can edit it if you need to by clicking the “edit” button.

In the “create” area, you can repeat the process that we just did to create other email, for your employees for example.

Finally in the bottom area, you can set up your aliases*.

*see step 7 to learn how it works.

Step 6: Going to your webmail box

If you scroll back up, and come back to the top of the mailboxes tab page, you should see this:

If you click on “here” you can check how to set up mailboxes on your phone devices. If you want to connect to your webmail, click on the link below:

This link will send you toward the webmail from where you can manage all your DotRadio emails. Then you will land on this page:

to connect follow these steps: 1 – Enter your username which is the email you created for example contact@YourWebsite.Radio 2 – The password you chose for this same email. 3 – Change the language of the mailbox if needed. Then click on the arrow and you will land on this page:

This is your mailbox. Such as every mailbox you can find many things. 1 – 5000 MB space 2 – All the basic files (inbox, drafts, sent email, trash emails, junk emails, archive, etc.) 3 – The write message area 4 – The reading area. Feel free to browse more through this to set up your email as you like. Now everything is ready for you to communicate with your brand new DotRadio email!

Step 7: How to create aliases?

You just need to fill up the first line with the alias you want for example info@YourSite.radio. In the second line you need to fill it up with the email address you want. In our example, this email address will receive the email from your alias info@YourSite.radio. See the example below:

Once it’s done, click on “Create” and then this message should appear:

Now if you scroll down, you will see that your aliases are listed as shown in the screenshot below:

1 – This is your list of aliases that you created, showing you the email alias and the email where it is forwarded. 2 – You can edit or delete the alias by clicking on the button accordingly. 3 – You can create up to 100 aliases.

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Conclusion

At first the email option could sound complicated, but if you just follow these steps, you will only have to do it once. Once it is set up, everything will work perfectly. In addition, we will shortly simplify and automate the process (change of domain name servers)
You will just have to enjoy your mailboxes and focus on what you do best: your Radio!

In a future blog post, we will explain to you how to set up email forwarders with DotRadio mailboxes.

In the meantime, you can check our blog post about how to set these mailboxes on your phone by clicking on this link.

We hope this will help you get the best out of your domain name!

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