# Set up email for your domain

> Order Mail Hosting, verify your domain, create a mailbox and read your mail in webmail or a mail app, from start to finish.

Source: https://www.coritan.com/docs/get-started/set-up-email-for-your-domain/

In the dashboard:

- /dashboard/mail: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail
- /dashboard/order/mail-hosting: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/order/mail-hosting
- /dashboard/mail/…/domains: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail
- /dashboard/mail/…/mailboxes: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail
- /dashboard/mail/…/overview: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail
- /webmail: https://www.coritan.com/webmail

This tutorial gives you a working address on your own domain, such as `alex@example.com`, that receives mail and sends it. You order Mail Hosting, prove the domain is yours by publishing its DNS records, create a mailbox and sign in to it in webmail or a mail app. Each section ends with something you can check before you go on.

It costs the Mail Hosting plan you choose. The order page shows each plan's price with the mailboxes, storage and domains it includes ([How Mail Hosting and SMTP Relay are billed](/docs/mail/billing/)). If MX, SPF or DKIM records are new to you, read [How email reaches an inbox](/docs/learn/how-email-works/) first.

## Before you begin

- A Coritan account. [Create an account](/docs/get-started/create-an-account/) if you have none, then sign in.
- A domain whose DNS records you can change. When its zone is on Coritan in the same account, Coritan publishes the records for you. [Put a website online](/docs/get-started/put-a-website-online/#1-get-a-domain) shows how to get one.
- If the domain already receives mail somewhere else, read [Move a domain that already receives mail](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/add-a-domain/#move-a-domain-that-already-receives-mail) first: new mail follows the domain's MX records as soon as they change.

## 1. Order Mail Hosting

1. In the dashboard, go to [Email](https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail) and select **Order Mail Hosting**.
2. Under **Plan**, choose a plan. Each one shows how many mailboxes it holds, the storage each mailbox gets and how many domains it takes, such as `5 mailboxes · 10 GB each · 1 domain`.
3. When the plans sell more than one billing cycle, choose one with the buttons beside the **Plan** heading.
4. Under **Domain**, enter your domain in **First domain**, such as `example.com`.
5. Check the summary under **Your order**, then select the button under it. It reads **Place order and pay** when you pay on the next page, and **Place order** when your credit pays for it.
6. If the order's page reads **Order placed, payment due**, pay under **Pay invoice**.

The service appears on the **Email** page with the status `pending`, then `provisioning` while Coritan sets it up, then `active`. Coritan emails you when it is ready ([Order Mail Hosting or SMTP Relay](/docs/mail/order-a-mail-service/)).

## 2. Verify the domain

1. On the [Email](https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/mail) page, open the service, then the **Domains** tab. Your domain is there as the primary domain. Select it to open its page.
2. Publish the records that the **DNS records** card lists:
   - When the domain's zone is on Coritan in this account, there is nothing to do. The card reads *We publish these into your DNS zone and keep them up to date.*
   - Anywhere else, create the ownership `TXT` record at your DNS provider first, then the other records under **Needed to receive mail** and **Needed to send mail**. The records under **Recommended** can wait. Select **Verify now**, reload the page, and create the two DKIM records that the card now lists.
3. Select **Verify now** and read the message.

The message reads `example.com is verified.`, and on the **Domains** tab the domain shows `Verified`, with **Ownership**, **MX**, **SPF** and **DKIM** ticked. When it reads `example.com is still pending:`, fix the problem it names and select **Verify now** again. Coritan also checks pending domains about every ten minutes ([Add a domain to Mail Hosting](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/add-a-domain/)).

## 3. Create a mailbox

1. Select the **Mailboxes** tab, then **Create mailbox…**.
2. In **Name**, enter the part of the address before the @, such as `alex`, and choose your domain under **Domain**.
3. Keep the share of storage that **Quota (GB)** starts with, or change it.
4. Under **Password**, choose **Generate a strong password**.
5. Select **Create mailbox**.

A dialog shows the mailbox's **Address**, its **Password** and its **IMAP**, **SMTP** and **Webmail** settings. Copy the password now, because Coritan shows a generated password only once. The mailbox appears on the **Mailboxes** tab ([Create and manage mailboxes](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/mailboxes/)).

## 4. Read and send mail

To use webmail in a browser:

1. Go to [Webmail](https://www.coritan.com/webmail).
2. Enter the mailbox's address in **Email address** and its password in **Password**, then select **Sign in**.

To use a mail app on your computer or phone, add a new account in the app with the mailbox's full address and password, and let it look up the settings. When it asks for them, copy them from the **Mail client setup** card on the service's **Overview** tab: the **IMAP** name on port `993` with SSL/TLS for incoming mail, and the **SMTP** name on port `587` with STARTTLS for outgoing mail ([Connect a mail app to Mail Hosting](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/connect-a-mail-app/)).

Send a message from the mailbox to an address you have somewhere else, and reply to it. The reply arrives in the mailbox's inbox.

## Troubleshooting

The domain stays pending with `MX points to` and a list of hosts
: The domain's MX records still name another mail provider. Replace them with the ones on the **DNS records** card.

The mail app cannot send
: Check that it uses port `587` with STARTTLS, or `465` with SSL/TLS. Many networks block port `25`. [Troubleshoot mail](/docs/mail/troubleshooting/) covers the other errors.

## Next steps

- [Forward addresses with aliases](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/aliases/), such as `hello@example.com` to your mailbox
- [Secure a mailbox](/docs/mail/mail-hosting/mailbox-security/) with two-factor sign-in
- [How SMTP Relay works](/docs/mail/smtp-relay/), for the mail your website or app sends, on a subdomain such as `send.example.com`