How to setup Google APPS as external email service
The main purpose of Google APPS is ability to host mail service outside of your main domain and get full functionality of gmail services, with great antispam filters.
To setup you need to:
- create Google APPS account on http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html with necessary domain (example: domain.com )
- create needed mailboxes there (example: sales@domain.com )
- create necessary DNS MX records for domain in VPS.NET dashboard:
remove any MX records that lead to your VPS
add following records MX records:
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
Like on the following screenshot
And after DNS propagation the setup will be finished.
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