Yandex is formerly a Russian search engine. Today their services range is much wider, including a mail service that you can use for free and with a custom domain name. Let’s jump straight away to a step by step guide on setting up your custom domain email addresses.
STEP 1: CREATE A YANDEX ACCOUNT
First of all, you need a general Yandex account under which you will be able to manage all the other mailboxes for all your domains. You can easily register using the Create account button on the Yandex Mail login screen: mail.yandex.com.
STEP 2: REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME
Registering a domain name is a piece of cake compared to setting up these emails. Check out our guide on How to Register a Domain Name.
Once you have the domain name registered and you have access to the administration area of your domain registrar, don’t forget the credentials, you’ll need them later.
STEP 3: ASSOCIATE YOUR DOMAIN WITH YANDEX
Go to domain.yandex.com and write your domain name to the big box instead of “yourdomain.com”. Then click the Connect button.
STEP 4: VERIFY YOUR OWNERSHIP
Next the domain verification section will appear. Now you need to prove to Yandex that the domain name is really yours.
There are two options how to verify your domain ownership. If you already have a web hosting and your domain is pointing to a website space, you can just create a file with the name and contents mentioned in the “Verify domain ownership” and upload it to your web root.
Alternatively or if you don’t have a web hosting yet, you can verify the ownership using your domain’s DNS records. You don’t need to have a website at all to have custom email boxes working on your domain, although it’s very likely that many of your email recipients will look for a web on your domain if they receive an email associated with that domain name.
Be cautious while editing the DNS records if you already have some services dependent on your domain name, such as a web hosting. Wrong DNS settings may break them.
Remember your login details to your domain name administration area and try to find a section called “DNS records” or just DNS. Once you get in, there should be a bunch of DNS records, looking something like this:
What you want to do is adding a new DNS record. The Subdomain (or Name) field should contain the piece of text mentioned in the Yandex’s “Verify domain ownership” as marked on the image below:
The TTL field should be left as is or set to 1800. Type must be set to CNAME and Data must contain “mail.yandex.com.”. Add the record. Some domain administration interfaces may further require to press a special button to apply the changes made in DNS.
You may need to wait up to an hour to have these changes applied and visible throughout the internet. Go back to the Yandex verification page and keep pressing the Verify domain ownership button time by time.
Once Yandex can see the verification DNS record, the verification steps will disappear and you can move to the next step.
STEP 5: SETUP THE MX RECORD
At this point you’ve passed through the most complicated thing. Why not to repeat it?
Time to go back to your domain’s DNS records administration interface and either delete the record that we’ve created in the previous step and create a new one or just edit that one. The Subdomain (or Name) field should now be empty, TTL field should remain as is, Type should be set to MX and the Data field should contain “10 mx.yandex.net“, without quotes and including the space.
Apply the changes the same way as before. Wait for a bit.
STEP 6: CREATE THE MAILBOXES
The hard part is done. Once your domain is verified and set up, step back to domain.yandex.com. This is the places where you can always find your domain settings for all your domains associated with Yandex. Find the domain you have just added in the list and click it (not the Add mailbox button), see the image below:
Now you should see the domain’s configuration area with Add mailbox and Configure domain buttons. Create as many mailboxes as you need using the Add mailbox button. Write down the passwords. When you are satisfied, step over to the Configure domain button and set one of your mailboxes as the Default address. The selected mailbox will receive any messages sent to mistyped email addresses. Finally, you can click the logo area and add a custom image that should represent you.
STEP 7: LOGIN AND TEST
From now you (or any of your coworkers) can login to any of your new mailboxes at mail.yandex.com. The Username field should be filled with the whole mailbox address, e.g. “hello@webhostingforpeople.com”, not just “hello”.
Yandex’s mailbox interface is very intuitive. The first thing you should do is to check if everything is working properly. Use any of your third party email services to send a test email to your new domain’s mailbox. If everything works fine, the message should appear within minutes. Be sure to check the spam folder if it doesn’t.
STEP 1: CREATE A YANDEX ACCOUNT
First of all, you need a general Yandex account under which you will be able to manage all the other mailboxes for all your domains. You can easily register using the Create account button on the Yandex Mail login screen: mail.yandex.com.
STEP 2: REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME
Registering a domain name is a piece of cake compared to setting up these emails. Check out our guide on How to Register a Domain Name.
Once you have the domain name registered and you have access to the administration area of your domain registrar, don’t forget the credentials, you’ll need them later.
STEP 3: ASSOCIATE YOUR DOMAIN WITH YANDEX
Go to domain.yandex.com and write your domain name to the big box instead of “yourdomain.com”. Then click the Connect button.
STEP 4: VERIFY YOUR OWNERSHIP
Next the domain verification section will appear. Now you need to prove to Yandex that the domain name is really yours.
There are two options how to verify your domain ownership. If you already have a web hosting and your domain is pointing to a website space, you can just create a file with the name and contents mentioned in the “Verify domain ownership” and upload it to your web root.
Alternatively or if you don’t have a web hosting yet, you can verify the ownership using your domain’s DNS records. You don’t need to have a website at all to have custom email boxes working on your domain, although it’s very likely that many of your email recipients will look for a web on your domain if they receive an email associated with that domain name.
Be cautious while editing the DNS records if you already have some services dependent on your domain name, such as a web hosting. Wrong DNS settings may break them.
Remember your login details to your domain name administration area and try to find a section called “DNS records” or just DNS. Once you get in, there should be a bunch of DNS records, looking something like this:
What you want to do is adding a new DNS record. The Subdomain (or Name) field should contain the piece of text mentioned in the Yandex’s “Verify domain ownership” as marked on the image below:
The TTL field should be left as is or set to 1800. Type must be set to CNAME and Data must contain “mail.yandex.com.”. Add the record. Some domain administration interfaces may further require to press a special button to apply the changes made in DNS.
You may need to wait up to an hour to have these changes applied and visible throughout the internet. Go back to the Yandex verification page and keep pressing the Verify domain ownership button time by time.
Once Yandex can see the verification DNS record, the verification steps will disappear and you can move to the next step.
STEP 5: SETUP THE MX RECORD
At this point you’ve passed through the most complicated thing. Why not to repeat it?
Time to go back to your domain’s DNS records administration interface and either delete the record that we’ve created in the previous step and create a new one or just edit that one. The Subdomain (or Name) field should now be empty, TTL field should remain as is, Type should be set to MX and the Data field should contain “10 mx.yandex.net“, without quotes and including the space.
Apply the changes the same way as before. Wait for a bit.
STEP 6: CREATE THE MAILBOXES
The hard part is done. Once your domain is verified and set up, step back to domain.yandex.com. This is the places where you can always find your domain settings for all your domains associated with Yandex. Find the domain you have just added in the list and click it (not the Add mailbox button), see the image below:
Now you should see the domain’s configuration area with Add mailbox and Configure domain buttons. Create as many mailboxes as you need using the Add mailbox button. Write down the passwords. When you are satisfied, step over to the Configure domain button and set one of your mailboxes as the Default address. The selected mailbox will receive any messages sent to mistyped email addresses. Finally, you can click the logo area and add a custom image that should represent you.
STEP 7: LOGIN AND TEST
From now you (or any of your coworkers) can login to any of your new mailboxes at mail.yandex.com. The Username field should be filled with the whole mailbox address, e.g. “hello@webhostingforpeople.com”, not just “hello”.
Yandex’s mailbox interface is very intuitive. The first thing you should do is to check if everything is working properly. Use any of your third party email services to send a test email to your new domain’s mailbox. If everything works fine, the message should appear within minutes. Be sure to check the spam folder if it doesn’t.
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