What is business email?
Business email (also called corporate or professional email) is an email service that runs on your company's own domain name. Addresses such as [email protected] or [email protected] build trust from the very first contact, because the recipient can tell from the domain that the message genuinely comes from your organization. An address like companyname2026@... on a free consumer service, on the other hand, weakens your brand and raises the question of who actually controls the account.
Technically, business email means your domain's MX records point to an email server, a mailbox is created on that server for each employee, and those mailboxes are accessed through webmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or mobile apps over IMAP/POP3/SMTP. With Limitsiz Bulut's AI-powered business email plans, this infrastructure runs in a Tier III data center in Turkey, and you manage accounts, quotas and signatures from an easy control panel.
If you do not have a domain yet, start with our domain search to find a .com or .com.tr name that fits your brand. A free .com.tr domain is included with our business email plans.
Why business email instead of a free Gmail or Outlook account?
Free personal email accounts are built for individuals. When a business relies on them, a few concrete problems appear:
- Trust and brand: Quotes, invoices and contracts sent from your own domain look professional, and it becomes harder for scammers to impersonate you.
- Account ownership: A personal account belongs to the employee. When they leave, conversations, customer history and password-reset links can leave with them. With business email, the company owns the account: an administrator can reset the password, hand the mailbox over or set up forwarding.
- Central management: Create accounts for new hires in minutes, assign individual quotas and keep the same company signature across every user.
- Deliverability: By configuring SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your own domain, you reduce the chance of your messages landing in spam.
- Data location and compliance: Knowing which country your personal data is stored in matters for regulatory compliance. With free global services, you have no say in it.
In short, a free account may look cost-free in the short term, but for a growing business, professional email is a basic investment in both reputation and data security.
Turkey-hosted email and KVKK
Mailboxes hold large amounts of personal data: customer names, phone numbers, addresses, billing details and CVs. Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) places specific conditions on transferring personal data abroad. If your email is hosted outside Turkey, you need to assess the legal basis for that transfer separately.
Using Turkey-hosted email keeps data inside the country and greatly simplifies that assessment. With Limitsiz Bulut business email, your mailboxes are stored in our Tier III certified data center in Turkey. This means:
- You know exactly where your data physically lives,
- You get fast, low-latency webmail and IMAP access from within Turkey,
- You work with a support team in the same time zone, in Turkish or English.
Business email pricing in 2026
Business email pricing depends on mailbox storage, spam protection level, synchronization features and support coverage. The table below shows current monthly prices for Limitsiz Bulut AI-powered business email plans (excluding VAT, October 2026). Every plan is billed monthly with no long-term commitment.
| Plan | Monthly price | Mail storage | Anti-spam | Sync | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | ₺49.99 | 5 GB | Standard | Webmail / IMAP / POP3 | |
| Standard | ₺99.98 | 15 GB | Advanced | + Outlook & Mac | Priority |
| Professional (most popular) | ₺199.98 | 50 GB | Pro | + Mobile sync | 24/7 VIP |
| Enterprise | ₺369.98 | 100 GB | Enterprise | Outlook, Mac & mobile | Dedicated account manager |
Every plan includes a free .com.tr domain, antivirus scanning, a self-learning (Bayesian) spam filter, SPF/reverse DNS/RBL checks, calendar and shared address book, company signatures, per-account quota management and free email migration. The Enterprise plan also offers a dedicated IP address option. The hourly sending limit is 250 emails on all plans. Prices are set in Turkish lira; if you choose USD on the site, they are converted at the current exchange rate.
When comparing prices, look beyond the monthly fee: consider storage per mailbox, support quality, the country where data is kept and whether migration costs extra. For price comparisons and cost examples, read our business email pricing 2026 article.
How much storage and how many accounts do you need?
The first step in choosing the right plan is measuring your current usage. The total storage in your plan is shared between your accounts: you can set an individual quota per account, but combined usage cannot exceed the plan's storage. So list your accounts first, then estimate what each one needs.
Estimated storage by usage profile
- Light use (shared addresses such as info@ or contact@): usually a few hundred MB to 1 GB per year.
- Moderate use (sales, account managers): 2–5 GB per year with quotes and attachments.
- Heavy use (finance, design, project management): 5–15 GB or more per year because of PDFs, images and large attachments.
Example plan
Imagine a five-person office with two shared addresses (info@, accounting@) and three employee accounts. If the shared addresses use 2 GB in total and each employee uses 3–4 GB, roughly 12–14 GB covers the first year, so the Standard (15 GB) plan is a sensible starting point. Teams that never delete their archive, send large attachments and want instant mobile sync will be more comfortable on Professional (50 GB). You can move up to a larger plan as usage grows.
If you have dozens or hundreds of users, need bulk email sending, or prefer a fixed resource price instead of per-user costs, our business mail server with unlimited accounts may be more economical.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC and deliverability
Whether your message lands in the recipient's inbox or spam folder depends largely on your domain's authentication records. Since 2024, major mailbox providers have enforced sender authentication far more strictly; these records are no longer optional but a baseline requirement.
- SPF (Sender Policy Framework): A DNS TXT record that declares which servers may send email on behalf of your domain, for example
v=spf1 include:... ~all. Never publish more than one SPF record; merge every sending source into a single record. - DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail): Adds a cryptographic signature to every outgoing message. The receiving server verifies it using the public key in your DNS, confirming the message was not altered in transit.
- DMARC: Tells receivers what to do with messages that fail SPF and DKIM (none, quarantine, reject) and sends you reports. A safe path is to start with
p=none, monitor the reports, then move toquarantineand finallyreject. - Reverse DNS (PTR): Having the sending IP resolve to a hostname is another trust signal many receiving servers look for.
To protect deliverability, enforce strong passwords, shut down compromised accounts quickly and do not use business mailboxes for newsletters or bulk campaigns; the 250-per-hour sending limit exists to protect that reputation. For step-by-step DNS examples, see our SPF, DKIM and DMARC guide. We also recommend a DV SSL certificate for encrypted connections on your website and webmail links.
Outlook, Mac and mobile setup (IMAP/SMTP settings)
Besides webmail, you can add your business email account to Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or the iOS/Android mail apps. Server names are included in the details sent when your service is activated and in your control panel; they usually look like mail.yourdomain.com. Standard port settings are:
| Protocol | Port | Encryption | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMAP (incoming) | 993 | SSL/TLS | Recommended; mail stays on the server and every device stays in sync |
| POP3 (incoming) | 995 | SSL/TLS | To download mail to a single device |
| SMTP (outgoing) | 465 | SSL/TLS | Outgoing server, authentication on |
| SMTP (outgoing) | 587 | STARTTLS | Alternative if port 465 is blocked |
During setup, enter your full email address as the username and enable "outgoing server requires authentication". If you use more than one device, choose IMAP; messages downloaded via POP3 may not appear on your other devices. Calendar and contact sync between Outlook and Mac is included on Standard and above, while mobile sync is available on Professional and Enterprise.
Email migration: moving from Yandex, Gmail or your current host
The biggest worry when switching providers is losing old messages. At Limitsiz Bulut, migration is free and handled with an IMAP-based migration tool that copies every folder and message from the old server into your new mailboxes.
- Inventory: List the accounts to move, their passwords and approximate mailbox sizes.
- Create accounts: Mailboxes with the same names are created on the new system.
- Initial sync: Existing mail is copied over IMAP while the old system keeps working.
- MX switch: The MX record in DNS is pointed to the new server. No incoming mail is lost while DNS propagates.
- Final sync and checks: Messages that arrived in the old mailbox during the switch are transferred, SPF/DKIM records are updated and devices are reconfigured.
For businesses moving from Yandex in particular, our team migrates while keeping your folder structure intact. Expert support is free throughout the process.
How does the AI-powered spam filter work?
Traditional spam filters rely on fixed rules and adapt slowly to new attack types. Our self-learning, AI-powered filters pass every incoming message through multiple layers:
- Sender verification: SPF results, reverse DNS (PTR) and whether the sending IP appears on blocklists (RBL) are checked.
- Content analysis: A Bayesian, self-learning filter scores the message statistically and improves based on your usage.
- Antivirus scanning: Attachments and links are scanned for malware.
- Phishing detection: Fake messages impersonating banks, couriers or executives are filtered out.
The protection level rises with each plan: standard on Starter, advanced on Standard, Pro on Professional and the most comprehensive filtering on Enterprise. No filter is 100% perfect, so training your staff to recognize suspicious links remains important.
How to choose business email: a checklist
When comparing providers and plans, ask these questions:
- In which country, and in what kind of certified data center, is the data stored?
- How much storage is there per mailbox and in total, and can quotas be managed per account?
- Are SPF, DKIM and DMARC supported, and will the provider help you set them up?
- Which plan includes Outlook, Mac and mobile sync?
- Which layers make up the spam and virus protection?
- What is the hourly or daily sending limit, and is there an alternative if you need bulk sending?
- Is migrating your existing mail free, and who does it?
- In which languages, at what hours and through which channels is support provided?
- What is the backup policy, and can deleted mail be restored?
- Is there a long-term commitment, and do prices include VAT?
Measured against this list, a Turkey-hosted, no-commitment business email plan with local support is often the most balanced choice for small and medium-sized businesses. To dig deeper into the basics, read What is business email?; if you need a high-volume, resource-based platform, explore our business mail server, or run your own server on a VDS server.