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How I created functional custom google domains email address "balaji@dhbalaji.dev"

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D Balaji
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

Here is the story behind functional custom email address balaji@dhbalaji.dev

Why custom email domains​

The custom email addresses look more professional on the resume or back of the truck, hope you got my point. I have seen all sort of weird email addresses on the resume like sureshnaidu1929@gmail.com but the improved version would be contact@suresh.dev

Most developers have a website, why not a custom working email address

Steps to create a functional custom email address​

  • Create a custom email on your domains registar which in my case is Google Domains

  • Setup email forwarding

  • Create an alias in your gmail

  • Set app password

  • Use gmail smtp settings, gmail address and app password to login

  • Confirm the alias addition to gmail

  • Voila, we are done.

  • Extra steps, like custom signature for the domain could be added

Next steps​

Before we go any further, let me clarify two things.

  1. I am not going to pen down every step in this process, instead I will share valuable blog posts which I referred and grateful for

  2. This is a technical one.

    a. Set up email forwarding by following Google documentation.

    b. You will not create a new gmail inbox but add an alias to the gmail. The gmail UI will show a select dropdown with newly added custom domain

    c. Read the Google Documentation