How to make Google your mail server
Google with the service Gmail has one of the best Spam protections on the market and the fact that it is free just makes it better.
Did you know you can use Gmail as your own mail server for IMAP, POP, Mail forwarding and more?
Step 1) Go to Google Apps and sign up for a normal account for your domain, like yourdomain.com. Google will then give you access to the control panel.
Step 2) As usual Google need to know that you actually own the domain so before you do anything follow their instructions to verify it.
Step 3) You are almost ready to send email from Google server. You need to sign in to your domain hosting service and go to the DNS panel for your domain and add the following to the MX (Mail Exchanger) section. If you do not know how to do this please ask someone.
Priority Mail Server
1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
If hosting provider allowing only one or three MX, then choose first 1 or 3.
Step 4) The MX will take a few hours to work. There will be a default email address which ever you passed while signing up this will be master account. You can always create new email account by going to “User accounts>> Create a new user†and add new email account.
Step 5) In the “Service settings >> Email†menu you can change web addresses for accessing Email. For this create a CNAME and modify URL. This URL can be used to login to mail box (ie: click on “Service settings >> Email†menu and change the default web address to http://email.yourdomain.com or whatever you used for CNAME)
To use the custom URL email.yourdomain.com, you must change the CNAME record with your domain host.
a) Sign in to your domain hosting service.
b) Navigate to your DNS Management page. Generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings, if not you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.
c) Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias:
‘email’
d) Set the CNAME destination to the following address:
‘ghs.google.com’
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Comment made by Saad on Feb 11th 2009 at 02:18:
hi, thank you for letting us know about google mail, please be kind and let us know the way to remove google mail MX and return to the old web server (acutall hosting email server)
thank you