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Email on a domain you own, step by step

The whole setup, step by step, and how to connect Claude or ChatGPT to your mail and your setup.

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Set up email on a domain you just bought

From a domain with nothing on it to hello@example.com that sends and receives. Six steps: two of them at the place that manages your domain's DNS, the rest on imado. Usually under an hour; a DNS change can take up to a day to be seen.

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  1. 1 Create an account on imado
  2. 2 Connect your domain on imado
  3. 3 Prove you own it at your DNS host
  4. 4 Publish the mail records at your DNS host
  5. 5 Create a mailbox on imado
  6. 6 Send yourself a message from anywhere

Where your domain's DNS is

Steps three and four happen at your DNS host. Each guide shows where its records go and what its form calls each field.

Search every host

A host not listed works too: the records are the same everywhere, and the setup shows them.

Your assistant

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant

Ask an assistant to read the mailboxes you choose, write drafts for you to send, or set up your domain: how to connect it, what to allow, what to ask, what stays with you, and how to disconnect it.

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What's new

First week of November 2026

  • Send new mail to your own server with a webhook · Setup
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Using imado

Use imado from the keyboard

Every key in your inbox and in Setup, how they are put together, and where they work.

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