{"id":198,"date":"2015-10-19T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T23:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/?p=198"},"modified":"2015-10-19T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T23:43:53","slug":"whonami-how-to-point-your-domain-names-email-service-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/10\/19\/whonami-how-to-point-your-domain-names-email-service-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Whonami-How to point your domain name&#8217;s email service to Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your domain name uses Google Apps for its email service you need to point your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\">domain name<\/a>&#8216;s email service to it. This is done by changing your domain name&#8217;s Mail Exchanger (MX) records, which control where email sent to your domain name gets delivered. If you&#8217;re curious about how that works, see <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/324?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">What is an MX record?<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>To Manually Configure Google Apps MX Records for Your Domain Name<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your Account Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Next to <strong>Domains<\/strong>, click <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click the domain you want to use, and then select the <strong>DNS Zone File<\/strong> tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Add Record<\/strong>, and then select <strong>MX (Mail Exchanger)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Add the following MX records:<br \/>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Priority<\/th>\n<th>Host name<\/th>\n<th>Points to<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>@<\/td>\n<td>ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>@<\/td>\n<td>ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>@<\/td>\n<td>ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>@<\/td>\n<td>ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>@<\/td>\n<td>ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong>, and then <strong>Save Changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If you have any existing MX records, select them and then click <strong>Delete<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"note\">These changes can take up to seven days to reflect on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your domain name uses Google Apps for its email service you need to point your domain name&#8216;s email service to it. This is done by changing your domain name&#8217;s Mail Exchanger (MX) records, which control where email sent to your domain name gets delivered. If you&#8217;re curious about how that works, see What is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/10\/19\/whonami-how-to-point-your-domain-names-email-service-to-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whonami-How to point your domain name&#8217;s email service to Google?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}