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title: Which Option for Sending Email from Salesforce Is Best for Your Organization?
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description: There are several options that let your users send email right from Salesforce. These options depend on whether your organization uses Lightning Experience, whether your company owns an email domain, and which email application your company uses.
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# Which Option for Sending Email from Salesforce Is Best for Your Organization?

There are several options that let your users send email right from Salesforce. These options depend on whether your organization uses Lightning Experience, whether your company owns an email domain, and which email application your company uses.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

Use this flowchart to figure out which option for sending email from Salesforce is right for your org. It all starts with whether you use Lightning Experience or not.

![Email options flowchart](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_productivity-264-0-0-production-enus/b2f6c36a-fa61-4a3c-9752-032ce1818a69/sales_productivity/images/sales_users_email/email_flowchart.png)

\*If your email addresses end in @aol.com, @yahoo.com, and @gmail.com and you want to use Email Relay, you need to register for your own domain. This is due to the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) policy at Gmail, AOL™, and Yahoo™. [Learn More](https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?urlname=Salesforce-Outbound-Emails-Impacted-by-Google-DMARC-Policy-Adoption&language=en_US)

#### See Also

- [Send Through External Email Services](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.emailadmin_sendthroughexternal_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Send email from Salesforce using your Google or Microsoft accounts. Then, to recipients, emails look like they were sent from those accounts, and you see those emails in your Gmail or Outlook Sent Items folder.")
- [Send Through Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.emailadmin_send_through_salesforce_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Send email from Salesforce using the Salesforce servers. No need to integrate with an external email service. This a great approach if you’re using Salesforce Classic, need bounce management, or aren’t using Gmail™ or Office 365™ with Lightning Experience.")
- [Send Email Through Email Relay](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.emailadmin_email_relay_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use your company’s email server to send email from Salesforce. Storing email locally helps you meet compliance goals, and your users can see the emails they’ve sent from Salesforce in their company email Sent Items folder. Also, routing all email through your own email servers prevents the appearance of email spoofing by Salesforce. Email spoofing is the forging of email headers to make messages appear as if they came from someone other than the original sender.")
- [Explore Email and Calendar Integration Products](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.sfo_vs_email_connect.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce provides several tools that integrate with Microsoft or Google email and calendar applications. If you’re using Salesforce for Outlook (Retiring) or Lightning Sync, prepare for the move to a replacement product.")