mailshogun

MailShogun is a WordPress plugin that forwards domain emails (e.g. [email protected]) to any Gmail account without creating dedicated mailboxes. The plugin has a built-in free email address.
In many cases after a WordPress website has been built, there is also a need to add emails that will be branded with the same website domain.
It’s a personalized email address using your domain name. For example [email protected].

A business email address makes a great professional impression.

Here are some options you may want to start with:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

There are several other options, however, they present some disadvantages.
There are domain registrants, such as GoDaddy, and other mail forwarding services, where, for example, [email protected] will be forwarded to [email protected]. The limitation of these solutions, is that they are only one sided. If you want to send an email back it won’t have “yourdomain” suffix, it will be an email that comes from Gmail, which in some cases might make you look less professional.
Other solutions include buying addresses from third party email providers. The most popular service is Gsuite by Google. If you want to have [email protected] with Gsuite, you will have to open a new “company” in Gsuite and then define every address. Every address has its own storage. Limitations are – high price (around $5 per mailbox per month), and all of the definitions of these addresses are done from an eternal dashboard. Another disadvantage is that every address is a real mailbox. If [email protected] should move to [email protected] all past emails of 1 are staying forever in the storage of 1. It is very complicated to move these emails to another box.
Mailshogun overcomes all these disadvantages with these unique features: It is an email forwarding system, but you can also send back emails from your gmail and your customer will receive the email from your unique domain. It is a full solution in both sides. There are no inboxes for the addresses, and it is very flexible- you can open, delete, modify addresses very easily. Perhaps you have info, webmaster, contact, sales emails, you can forward all of them to one Gmail address. All mail definitions are done from the WordPress standard admin dashboard – like any other plugin. Mailshogun is also cheap, as one address is free and others are $10 per year, which is 1/6 the price of Gsuite.

Important

Since Mailshogun plugin is communicating with external mail servers in order to provide its service, it means that the plugin is not independent. Make sure that your firewall or IP mapping has access to https://api.mailshogun.com.

How it works

If you define one address from [email protected] that will be forwarded to [email protected], this information is stored in Mailshogun servers and configure the servers accordingly. The actual forwarding is done there.
This is exactly how it works if you define Gsuite or other external email.
In addition to the communication with mailshogun servers, there is also connection to Paypal. This is optional, only if you choose to use the premium version that will allow forwarding of more addresses. The free version has 1 address.