Using Gmail for domain email - how to set it up???

valve90210 · 5 Nov 2010 at 13:58

Hi all

I'm wondering if someone can help me.

I have registered a domain name (with 123-reg) (though at the moment I don't have any hosting or a website - this will come in the next couple of months...possibly via TSO host) and would like to set up a google mail account to use for my email, sending and receiving from my own domain address using outlook express and being able to use the webmail too (and push forwarding to my android phone whenI finally get it)

Ideally I would like 2 addresses to be received, [email protected] and [email protected] and to send from [email protected].

My girlfriend has a domain and email set up in this way (though she also has a web host and web site), which was set up by a chap who offered the hosting for free, so I have no idea how to do it.

Can I set up my email in this way without having any webhosting? (I've seen mention of having to up load a test file or something so google can verify you or something like that) if so, can anyone guide me through it step by step or point me in the direction of a simple guide, having googled I've come across loads of different things and I'm not sure which is the right way to do it?

Many many thanks for any help anyone can give me

Valve

J.B · 5 Nov 2010 at 14:09

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hlrm=en&answer=33352

This might help, you need to repoint your MX records.

I've not done it with Google so Im not sure what configurations need to be done via google apps and if you have to pay for it etc.

I'm sure someone else will know but that link might get you on the right track to start with.

edscdk · 5 Nov 2010 at 14:11

its easy to set up, they give you all the instructions in the google apps setup - I did 2 recently.

valve90210 · 5 Nov 2010 at 15:32

Ah, I had read something along the lines of that, I shall check it out this evening.

Does anyone know if it's free to do/use?

edscdk · 5 Nov 2010 at 15:34

I have my email directed to a free googleapps account

valve90210 · 5 Nov 2010 at 15:53

Is that done with forwarding, or via the MX records and then googles servers etc?

My girlfriends setup uses googles servers and alolows adding new users etc etc, which is what I want for mine too.

valve90210 · 7 Nov 2010 at 04:41

I'm currently waiting for googleapps to be able to verify my domain, having added a TXT DNS entry.

I did this at about 9pm Friday and it googleapps is still unable to verify. Does this sound right, can DNS changes take this long to propagate or is it likely I've done something wrong?

I can't use the html method to verify as I don't have any webspace to upload a file.

valve90210 · 7 Nov 2010 at 08:27

All set up now, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!!!