HOW TO: Setup Gmail for Hosted Domains

When you login to your account, you should immediately be greeted by the domain manager; if not, click Manage This Domain on the top right. This is the area where you can add new email users and manage all of the accounts. Upon your first login there should be some info on setting up the MX records. MX records are Mail Exchange records that are part of the DNS zone file that routes your mail from your webhost to Gmail. Google already offers some guides about how to do this for registrars like GoDaddy and Dreamhost but if you use Media Temple I'll show you how you can get everything working.

1. Log into the (mt) Account Center.
2. Click Domains on the left.
3. Under Existing Domains click the Manage icon adjacent to the domain whose email you wish to route to Gmail for hosted domains.
4. Under DNS Zone, click Edit Zone.
5. Delete any records with type MX.
6. Add MX records and get your Zone file to look like the picture below.
7. Save.
8. Wait a day (or at least 10 hours).
9. Send an email to your new account.
10. Check your email at http://mail.google.com/hosted/YOURDOMAIN.com.
11. Do a happy dance when it all works.

For easier pasting, these are the lines you will want to enter - each as an individual MX record. The period at the end of each line is to be included. Again, I must stress this article pertains only to Media Temple users.

• 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.
• 10 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
• 10 aspmx5.googlemail.com.