Configuring MX records for your domain at goole Apps

 

 

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-nz&answer=33352

 

 

Section 1: MX Overview

To use Google Apps as your domain's email service, you'll need to modify your MX records to point to Google's mail servers. You must change your domain's MX records with your domain hosting account. Each domain host has slightly different instructions to change MX records. Some domain hosts provide DNS settings for you to make the required changes yourself while other domain hosts will make the requested change for you. For setup instructions for your domain host and a short video on configuring MX records, see section 3 below.

 

If you purchased your domain name from one of Google's registration partners while signing up for Google Apps, you shouldn't use these instructions. Instead, you can activate email in the control panel, and Google will automatically configure your MX records.

If you're currently using an in-house email server to host email addresses at your domain, you should create user accounts in your Google Apps control panel for each address before changing your MX records. Otherwise, email sent to those addresses may bounce.

 

Section 2: General Instructions

1. Sign in to your hosting account, and go to the MX record maintenance page. MX records may be located in DNS Management, Mail Server Configuration, or Name Server Management. You may have to enable advanced settings to edit your MX records.
2. Delete all existing MX entries.
3. Enter the following MX records. You may not be able to enter the priority value exactly as it appears in the table below -- if you can, make sure each record follows the indicated order. If you aren't able to assign priorities, you should only enter aspmx.l.google.com.. Set any TTL values to 1 Hour (value=3600).

   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.

   Note: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM is the top priority mail server. Don't assign the top priority to any other servers. Learn more about mail server priority. Be sure to include trailing dot (.) at the end of any full-qualified domain names (for example, server.example.com.) if your MX records require this format.
4. Save your changes. Your MX records are now configured to point to Google. Keep in mind that changes to MX records may take up to 48 hours to propagate throughout the Internet.

Want someone to do this for you? Get professional help with setup.

 

Section 3: Specific instructions for a list of domain hosts

Each hosting service has slightly different ways to create MX records.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-nWEpJisoA&eurl=&feature=player_embedded   view this video

Some common domain hosts with instructions are listed below.

1and1.com 123-reg 4d Web Hosting BT broadband office cPanel DirectAdmin DNS Park dnsExit Domain Direct Domain explorer DreamHost Dynadot DynDNS.com Enom.com EveryDNS.net eurodns gandi.net GoDaddy.com Hsphere iCodia iPowerWeb ix web hosting Lxlabs MyDomain.com myhosting.com Name.com Namecheap.com Namesecure NearlyFreeSpeech Netfirms nettica.com NetworkSolutions Neustar No-IP Registerfly.com vserver.de Webhost4life WebsiteSource WHM xname.org Yahoo!SmallBusiness ZoneEdit

 

 

Section 4: Check the status of your MX records

By DNSstuff.com

MX Record Lookup

 

Enter domain name

Example result (showing that email for appsuniversity.org is directed to Google):

appsuniversity.org mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
appsuniversity.org mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.