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This is a Tutorial of how to enable Google apps to work on your domain name. What I will be covering is how to ONLY setup EMAIL and NOT WEBHOSTING. Why NOT hosting? Because almost all of you have a descent site now and will not benefit from moving your website.
Why would you benefit from moving your email to Google?
Because most of you are using a free email service for AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, RoadRunner, etc… and this does not portray a professional image. See the post Are You Judged By Your Skills?
Step 1:
GoTo www.google.com/a and sign up for an account
If you already have a Gmail email you can use this account as the primary account to setup all the settings, or you can sign up for a new Gmail account
Step 2:
Setup Domain Details.
Your Name, Your Organization, how many users, etc…
Step 3:
Setup the Primary Master account
Step 4:
Setup What applications you want
For most of you your just going to want to setup Email and Calendar
Step 5:
The most difficult part is the Changes to DNS you will have to make.
These next steps below are copied directly from Google. They maybe a little different depending on what domain host you use.
| 1. | Sign in to your domain hosting company’s website using the username and password associated with your domain. |
| 2. | Navigate to an MX record maintenance page. MX records are special DNS (Domain Name Service) records, and are often located under sections titled “DNS Management,” “Mail Server Configuration,” or “Name Server Management.” You may need to turn on advanced settings to allow editing of these MX records. |
| 3. | Delete any existing MX records before entering new MX records. |
| 4. | For each MX record, enter information according to the entries in the following table.You may not be allowed to enter the priority values exactly as they appear in the table below; in that case, simply ensure that the server addresses are prioritized in the same order as they appear in the table. (i.e. The priority ranking [1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5] should work just as well as [1, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10, 10] so long as you keep the addresses in the right order.)If you’re asked to specify the type of each record you’re adding, enter “MX”.
MX records often require the specific format of DNS records, including a trailing dot (”.”) at the end of any full-qualified domain names (e.g. “server.example.com.”) Set any TTL values to the maximum allowed. |
| MX Server address | Priority |
|---|---|
| ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. | 1 |
| ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. | 5 |
| ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
| ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
If you need any more help with this Contact Us and we will help you set it up.
Loren Nason
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Mike // Feb 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Well, this is certainly useful information… but it would be REALLY useful to include something else about this… such as:
How do you connect to the mail servers with Outlook (or other 3rd party mail client)?
Certainly you have full web-based access to your email. But how to configure Outlook???
I’ve searched all over the place… getting mixed information about which incoming/outgoing servers to use… POP or IMAP?… which port# to use… and whether or not to use SSL.
Ugh!
I’m certain that it’s possible to get Outlook connected… but no luck as of yet.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
2 Andrew // Mar 4, 2008 at 4:05 pm
go to your gmail settings page- everything will be self explanatory from there. Make sure you check the box to even allow pop3 access. Good luck.
3 Mike // Mar 4, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Got it working. I love it!
Thank you very much!
Mike
4 Bhairo // May 6, 2008 at 3:11 am
Very useful information. Thanks
Bhairo
5 Sid // May 6, 2008 at 3:12 am
Yours is one of the posting from which I learned setting up google apps and recommend it to anyone starting on google apps
6 קידום אתרים // Jun 13, 2008 at 4:41 am
google apps is the great application of google that microsoft really start to afraid from google
7 Abhijit // Jul 27, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I see at many offices ppl using Gmail with their own logos instead of the regular gmail logo on the mail pages. I also spotted a customised title instead of google on the google home page search window. How are these done? I am using a free gmail account for my personal use.
8 Bohol Province // Aug 26, 2008 at 6:07 am
One advantage of having a Google-powered email is that your email is better protected from SPAM and Malware attacks. Google has a more advanced technology on handling this issue.
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