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REALsite sends lead confirmations and newsletters using your name, with replies directed to your configured contact email. This page is about a professional inbox at your own domain, so the address on your card matches the address on your sign. We recommend Google Workspace — it’s Gmail, Calendar, and Drive on your own domain. Mailbox service is separate from your REALsite plan; review the provider’s current price when signing up. (Full disclosure: if you sign up through our link we may receive a small referral credit. It costs you nothing, and we’d recommend Workspace either way — it’s what we use.)
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Sign up with your domain

Start a Workspace trial and choose I have a domain — enter the domain you connected in Your own domain.
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Verify and add the mail records

Workspace walks you through adding a verification record and Google’s mail (MX) records at your DNS provider — the same place you added your site’s records. If your domain is at Cloudflare, Workspace can often add them for you automatically.
3

Send yourself a test

Once activation finishes, send a message to your new address and reply from it. Keep your previous mailbox available until sending and receiving work as expected.
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Use it on your REALsite

Open Settings → Email and mailing list, update Contact email and save. Check Lead alerts go to there too. Send yourself a newsletter test and reply to it to check the address visitors will use.
Website hosting and mailbox hosting are separate. When connecting or moving your website’s domain, preserve the mail records your mailbox provider needs. Your own domain covers the website connection.