Setting Up Google Apps to Handle your Email

You can host your email using google Apps by making a change to the MX entries in Cpanel. Please follow the steps below:


Please Note:  Do not modify the MX record if you are unsure how to change it. You may submit a ticket and we can assist you.


Step 1: Login to your cPanel account.
Step 2: Click MX ENTRY.
Step 3: Select a domain from the Drop Down box
Step 4: Tick off Remote Mail Exchanger then click CHANGE.
Step 5: Under MX records, delete the Default entry that was setup there

 

it should look like: 0  |  yourdomain.com  |  edit | delete

 

so click delete then click delete again on the confirmation pop out.

 


Step 6: Add each of the below MX records one by one given each a sequentially higher priority (e.g., 0, 10, 20, 30) Please note google may change these frmo time to time so set the ones that they give you instead if different!

 

ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

 

Note: Please be aware that there will be a dot(.) after the entry.

Please note that it can take Google apps up to 24 hours to see these settings and to work correctly.

Step 7: add _spf.google.com to your SPF include record under the email authentication section of the cpanel.

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