Hosting Emails With Google Apps
I wanted to set up Google Apps so that the mail for one of my clients used GMail rather than the SquirrelMail/Horde/Roundcube that comes with cPanel. I struggled to find a proper, helpful blog – so I thought I would make one!
First off you need to have your own domain (obviously!)
Unless you want the Premier Edition of Google Apps, you need to head to the hidden Standard Edition Google Apps page
Once you’ve clicked Get Started, you’ll be prompt to enter your domain name (without the http://). After that you are grilled for your personal information (to once again – give away your soul to google!)
Step 3 of 3 is to choose an admin username and password for your email account.
You will then be asked to verify your website – may as well do it now while you are in the ‘zone!’
After set up you will then be taken to the dashboard of your emails. Don’t be fooled, you are not finished! You now need to edit the MX Entry for your domain, I’ll be doing it through cPanel, but you may need to do it elsewhere. Google provides a step by step guide of how to do it for most common control panels.
Once the MX records have changed, you just need to wait! Like DNS, MX Entries usually take a little while to switch over.
N.B. You might be able to receive emails but you will need to wait a little while until you can send them!
Once you’re done, check on the MX Record Lookup Checker.
If you would like to change the URL, so that when you go to mail.yourdomain.com it directs you to your new GMail account, then you will need to create a CNAME entry using your control panel. Google will help you with this. If you go to your Dashboard:
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOURDOMAIN.COM/Dashboard
Replacing YOURDOMAIN.COM with your domain, click Email and then click change URL, Google will assist you with changing your URL.
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