Professional Email on Your Domain

Once Haven manages a domain for you (e.g. weslacoelements.com), you can put real, professional email on it — you@yourdomain.com instead of a generic Gmail address. Haven configures all the technical DNS for you, so there's nothing to wrestle with.

There are two kinds of email address in Host Dashboard → Settings → Domains & Email. A domain can use mailboxes or forwarding, not both, because each needs control of the domain's mail-routing records.

Mailbox — a real inbox you send and receive from ($5/month)

A mailbox is a genuine inbox at your domain. You can send, reply, and receive natively — recipients see you@yourdomain.com in the "from" line, not a Gmail address. This is the right choice for the address you actually do business from.

Your first mailbox is free for a year, then $5/month per mailbox — on any plan, including free. We remind you before the free year ends; add a card to keep it (the $5/month starts then). Any additional mailbox has no free year — it's $5/month billed right away, so we'll ask for a card on file first. If the free year ends without a card, the mailbox is paused and then removed a few days later.
Haven configures everything: the MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are set up automatically on the domain Haven manages for you. There is nothing technical to do.
You choose your own password right when you create the mailbox (or Haven generates one for a mailbox claimed during onboarding). Haven protects it with encryption and uses it only for mailbox features you request, such as completing Gmail verification for you.
Send + receive: read and reply from webmail, or connect the mailbox to any email app over IMAP/SMTP.

Add a mailbox

Go to Host Dashboard → Settings → Domains & Email and open the Email tab.
Pick the domain you want (any domain Haven manages for you that's live).
Choose Create a mailbox — $5/mo, type the part before the @ (e.g. hello or your name), choose a password, and confirm.
Your mailbox is live immediately. Your first mailbox is free for the first year; after that (or right away for an additional mailbox) it's $5/month on the card you have on file. A step-by-step setup guide opens right away (and we email you the same details) showing how to use the address.

Use your mailbox in Gmail or any email app

After creating a mailbox, click Setup guide next to it any time to see a walkthrough for Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook, or any other app — with the exact values to copy:

Setting	Value
Username	your full address, e.g. `hello@yourdomain.com`
Password	the one you chose or received in your welcome email
Incoming (IMAP)	`imap.migadu.com`, port 993, SSL/TLS
Outgoing (SMTP)	`smtp.migadu.com`, port 465, SSL/TLS

The Setup guide in Haven walks you through these values step by step for each app, so you never have to guess which field is which.

Using your address in Gmail (two steps)

Connecting a professional address to Gmail is a two-part process — you set it up in Gmail, then come back to Haven to finish:

Set it up in Gmail. Open Settings → See all settings → Accounts and Import. To send from your professional address, add it under Send mail as using the outgoing (SMTP) values above. To also receive that mail inside Gmail, add it under Check mail from other accounts using the incoming (IMAP) values. This is what lets you send and receive with your professional Haven address from your existing Gmail account.
Come back to Haven and click Verify now. After you add the address, Gmail needs to confirm you own it. Return to your mailbox in Settings → Domains & Email → Email and choose Verify now — Haven completes the connection for you and finishes the Gmail verification securely. You don't need to hunt for a confirmation email or visit any other website.

The same idea applies to other mail apps (Apple Mail, Outlook, etc.): set up the address with the values above, then return to Haven and click Verify now if your app asks you to confirm ownership.

Remove a mailbox

From the same Email tab, click the remove (trash) icon next to the mailbox. Haven deletes the inbox and updates your billing immediately — when you remove your last mailbox, the email subscription is canceled automatically.

Forwarding — free, receive-only

A forwarding address simply forwards mail sent to you@yourdomain.com into an inbox you already own (like your personal Gmail). It's free and great for a "catch-all" or contact address you don't need to send replies from.

Forwarding is receive-only. Replies you send still come from your personal inbox, not your domain. If you want replies to come from your domain, create a mailbox instead.

To add forwarding, choose Forward to my inbox — free in the Email tab, enter the address and the inbox to forward to, and confirm the verification email Haven sends to that inbox.

Requirements

The domain must be one Haven manages for you (registered through Haven and live). Mailboxes and forwarding both rely on Haven controlling the domain's DNS — that's how setup is zero-touch.
Domains you own at another registrar (BYO): mailboxes are supported here too, with a guided setup — Haven creates the inbox and shows you the exact DNS records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) to add at your registrar, then verifies them. The mailbox goes live and billing starts only once the records resolve. Free forwarding is available on Haven-managed domains.