Setting up email

MicroApps runs real email hosting on your own domain: proper mailboxes, auto-generated DNS records, and built-in metrics. Deliverability is handled for you, so your mail lands instead of vanishing.

Talk to us

Email hosting is offered on request. Contact us and we'll enable it for your account.

Set up email on a domain

You need a domain that's already verified (see Custom domains & SSL). Then:

1. Open the domain and choose Set up email.
2. Pick the email server we've assigned to you.
3. We generate the DNS records that make mail work: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and SRV.
4. Publish those records at your DNS provider.
5. Click Recheck DNS on the domain's DNS tab. Once the required records check out, the domain is ready for mailboxes.

The required records are MX, SPF, and DKIM. DMARC and the SRV records are recommended - DMARC tightens your policy and the SRV records let mail apps auto-discover the ports.

Creating a mailbox

1. Open Emails in the sidebar.
2. Click New email and choose the domain.
3. Set:
   • Address - the full mailbox address (e.g. hello@example.com).
   • Password - 8+ characters with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and a digit.
   • Storage - the quota, from 1 to 50 GB.
4. Save.

The mailbox now sends and receives. You can also make one mailbox the catch-all for the domain, or set a forwarding address so a copy of incoming mail goes elsewhere.

Connecting a mail client

Any standard mail app works. The username is always the full email address.

Protocol	Host	Port	Security
IMAP (receiving)	your email server's hostname	993	SSL
SMTP (sending)	your email server's hostname	587	STARTTLS

Managing mailboxes

• Pause a mailbox with Suspend on the mailbox page (its status shows DISABLED), and bring it back with Resume. No need to delete and recreate.
• Change the password, forwarding, catch-all, or storage from the mailbox page.
• Delete is irreversible and drops mail in transit.

Regenerating DNS records

Need to rotate keys? Regenerate Records on the domain's DNS tab rebuilds the records and issues a fresh DKIM key.

Update your CNAME after regenerating

Regenerating also rotates the SSL validation label, so the _acme-challenge CNAME changes. Update that record at your DNS provider afterwards, or your next certificate renewal will fail.

Metrics and unsubscribes

Each mailbox shows sent / received / bounced counts, with daily, domain-wide, and account-wide rollups. Outgoing mail carries a one-click unsubscribe link; anyone who unsubscribes lands on your domain's suppression list, and you can review or clear that list from the domain.

API

See the emails API reference for the full set of endpoints.