Host Your Email with Zoho When Hosting Your Classified Website with Yclas

In this blog post, we are going to talk about hosting custom domain email when using Yclas. As you already know Yclas is not a hosting company, is a service company that offers software as a service. With our service, we offer the software hosted on our servers. The main reason is to offer the fastest solution for our users and the best performance for your site. 

Many of you contacted us to ask about how to change and use a custom domain, here you can see how to do it. But, what about using the custom domain email?

With the following steps is very easy to do, please read carefully and start using your custom domain email with Zoho:

By using Zoho mail, you can send and receive emails associated with your domain.

To set up Zoho Mail, follow these easy steps:

1. Choose your plan: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
2. Enter your domain name and click “Add Domain”.
3. Create your account and verify your existing contact email address.

4. Verify your domain following one of these ways:

   • Add CNAME record
   • Add TXT record
   • Upload an HTML file

   Find more about this step here.

5. Add Users: To add users, go to your Dashboard on Zoho Mail, click “User Details” on the left menu and then choose “Add Users” on the top menu.

Zoho Mail in 2026: Free Plan Limits, DNS Records and Sending Your Site's Emails

The steps above still work, but some details now matter more than when this post was written. Check them before you rely on your new address for buyer and seller messages.

1. Know what the free plan includes

According to Zoho's pricing page (October 2026), the Forever Free plan covers up to 5 users with 5 GB of mail storage each, for a single domain. IMAP, POP and ActiveSync are not included, so you read your mail in the browser or in Zoho's own apps. If you want your address in Outlook or Apple Mail, or a sixth user, you need a paid plan (Mail Lite, Mail Premium or one of the Workplace plans).

2. Add the DNS records that deliver mail

Verifying your domain only proves you own it. Mail starts arriving only after you add these records at your domain registrar or DNS host:

Two warnings from Zoho. First, the server names depend on the Zoho data center that holds your account, so copy the exact MX values shown under Tools & Configurations in your Admin Console (Zoho MX help). Second, a domain must have only one SPF record. Two SPF records make the check fail and can send your mail to spam (Zoho SPF help). For DKIM, create a selector in the Admin Console, publish the TXT record, then click Verify and enable signing (Zoho DKIM help). These mail records sit alongside the A and CNAME records that point your custom domain at your classifieds site, so adding them doesn't affect your website.

These records are not optional. Since February 1, 2024, Gmail has required every sender to use SPF or DKIM and to keep its spam rate below 0.3%. Senders of more than 5,000 messages a day also need SPF, DKIM and a DMARC record, plus one-click unsubscribe on marketing emails (Google sender guidelines).

3. Send your site's notifications from the new address

By default, your Yclas site sends emails (new ad alerts, contact messages, password resets) through Yclas's own service. To send them from your Zoho address instead, open the Email settings in your site's admin panel, choose SMTP as the email service and enter Zoho's server settings. Zoho lists smtp.zoho.com for personal and free organization accounts and smtppro.zoho.com for paid organization accounts with your own domain. Use port 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS), with authentication on (Zoho SMTP settings). The "from" address must be your Zoho mailbox or one of its aliases. If you use two-factor authentication on Zoho, create an application-specific password for the site. Yclas sends a test email to your site's notify address when you save, and you can use Send a test email on the same page after any change. If sending fails on the free plan, check in your Zoho account whether your plan allows sending from other apps. See the Yclas SMTP guide for more details.

Now you can send and receive emails with your custom domain. For more help with settings in your Zoho account, you can visit their documentation.

if you have any doubt you can always contact us via support tickets, using our forums, or sending an email to info@yclas.com we love to help you!