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One way to save space on your web hosting account and have a large email box is simply using Gmail’s service but still use your personalize domain name email account.

Things are getting bigger now a days, hard disk, memory and processor speeds keep on increasing due to the demands of softwares with increasing required specifications. Data files are increasing in size as well and sharing data online via IM or email requires larger email boxes and higher bandwidth speeds.

And as domain name prices drop, where you can get a domain for less than $10/year, and get some cheap web hosting, you can have your own personalized email address having your own domain name like whatever@yourname.com. But in every hosting account with some email service, you pay for space and bandwidth. The larger it is, the larger you need to pay on a regular basis.

Now this is assuming you have your own domain name and hosting service but wants to save on web hosting space by moving your email to Gmail.

How to receive emails

Most web hosting companies will really offer email forwarding, most of the time for free, sometimes with a limited number or sometimes unlimited. And instead of using an email POP3 account on the server, you can simply not create one or delete it if you have one already to save on space and just make an email forwarder going to your free Gmail email address. So receiving emails is simply done by checking your emails on Gmail. So for example, if the email is whatever@yourname.com, simple set this to forward to your Gmail email account. Obviously you need to own your own domain name already and should probably have a hosting account as well for your website. If you do not have this but plan on having your own personalized domain name email, you can buy domains for less than $10 bucks a year, just add a little bit more for hosting, and get the ideal plan for your hosting needs. Each hosting provider has a different procedure in doing email forwarding in their control panel. If you have any trouble doing this, it is best to contact your web/email hosting provider.

How to send emails

Since you are now using Gmail, you do not want people to see your Gmail address and want to show them your personalized email address like whatever@yourname.com. You can simply change the settings in Gmail do this:

1. Login to your Gmail account and click on Settings.
   
2. Click on Accounts.
   
3. Click on Add another email address to add your own domain name email in Gmail.
   
4. A popup window will appear. If none appears, your browser might be blocking it and be sure to allow popups from gmail.com. In this popup window, simply enter your name and your own domain name email and go to the Next Step.
   
5. You will be asked to verify your email. Simply click on the Send Verification button.
   
   Since in the earlier step, we have already said that your personalized domain name email should already be forwarding to your email account, then all you have to do next is simply check your Gmail and click on the verification link and you are done.
6. When sending a new email, just Compose a new email in Gmail and you will be given options in the From field as a dropdown menu.

That’s it. So now you get to save on email space, using the big 2GB+ and growing email box of Gmail. You get to use many of the other great features of Gmail, you can check it anywhere you have Internet access. Their spam filter is one of the best. They have good segregation and grouping of emails based on subject and fast searching of emails. And you get to use your own domain name on it, branded in whatever way you wish.