How to setup MX Records for Google Mail (Gmail)

Email > MX Records Setup
To use Google Mail (Gmail) with our nameservers, please do the follow steps:

1. Login to hosting control panel and Locate the MX records for your domain under DNS Manager.

2. Delete all existing MX Type Records.

3. Create CNAME record:

   Example: mail.clickinstaller.com CNAME to ghs.googlehosted.com

3. Setup below MX Records with different priority:
 
  Priority  Value
 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


4. Save your changes and wait until they take effect.

Detail setup instructions can be also found here:
MX Setup: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174125
CName Setup: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112038
Article ID: 303, , Modified: May 13 at 1:00 AM

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