How to make Google your mail server

Posted by | November 17, 2008 | Gmail, Google

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’

A method that maybe not have been proven but will at least give you some nice back links and a footprint on the web is to click on the all these links.

It is many who are pages and some of them will keep your page for Google to index and some will just create information page for your URL.

It will take a max 5 min to go trough all of the links and change my URL to yours. Let me know if you have any comments or questions.

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.revenueprovider.com
http://www.statbrain.com/www.revenueprovider.com
http://www.builtwith.com/?revenueprovider.com
http://snapshot.compete.com/revenueprovider.com
http://www.aboutus.org/revenueprovider.com
http://www.quantcast.com/revenueprovider.com
http://www.cubestat.com/www.revenueprovider.com
http://whois.tools4noobs.com/info/revenueprovider.com
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/revenueprovider.com
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=revenueprovider.com
http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/revenueprovider.com/summary/
http://whois.domaintools.com/revenueprovider.com
http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/revenueprovider.com/
http://www.whoisya.com/revenueprovider.com
http://www.who.is/whois-com/revenueprovider.com
http://www.robtex.com/dns/revenueprovider.com.html
http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=revenueprovider.com&btnG=Search
http://whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/revenueprovider.com/
http://whoisx.co.uk/revenueprovider.com
http://www.wikifox.de/revenueprovider.com
http://searchanalytics.compete.com/site_referrals/yoursite.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/revenueprovider.com
http://www.feedest.com/feedHost.cfm/host/revenueprovider.com
http://www.keyworddir.info/yoursite.com.html
http://searchons.com/found-it.php?u=revenueprovider.com
http://www.protect-x.com/info/revenueprovider.com

I have not been writing here for a very long time even if this was one of my favorite blog to write on. But when Google Adsense took away my income from Adsense on it I kind of stopped. I will try to write something at least once a week now anyway and try to find another source of income while I am doing it.

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By adding a translating tool to your blog the number of visits that visit your blog will sky rocket and your income as well.

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