I’m excited that finally the Gmail team have approved my Gmail for your Domain (now known as Google Apps) application for my domain – unic.net.my. Since my hosting account is under Exabytes sponsorship, I ask for their permission in order to change my Mail Exchange (MX) DNS record to Google’s mail servers.
Important note: During the Sign up, choose Standard Edition which is free.
If you happen to be using Exabytes (EBiz Linux hosting) and plan to use Gmail for your Domain email solution, this are the steps that you need to do:
cPanel 10
- Please follow the instruction in the invitation email that the Gmail team sent to you.
- When you’re done, log in to your hosting CPanel control panel.
- Now from the CPanel, click on Mail and you will be brought to the Mail Manager Main Menu. Proceed to Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry)
- You will be shown a list of all your Current MX Entries. At the bottom of the page, click on Change an MX Entry.
- From the dropdown menu, choose your domain and insert “ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.” (without the double quote). Click Change. Important note: you must include the trailing dot (.)
- Now go to your Gmail for your domain control panel dashboard. On your right, there’s an Account Status notification. If anything goes well, the status will be changed to Active. Pending means that you haven’t set or point your domain MX entry to Google Mail servers. Updating means that you have successfully configure your MX entry but Google haven’t update theirs.
cPanel 11
- Log in to your cPanel account.
- Under Mail, Click MX Entry.
- Go to Change MX Entry and choose the domain that you want to modified from Change MX for field. In the to: field insert “ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.” (without the double quote). Leave the Priority field to 0.
- Optionally you can tick and select Always accept mail locally even if the primary mx does not point to this server.
- Click Change
Surprisingly, it only took few minutes for all the changes on both sides to take effect. That means all the previous unic.net.my email user need to contact me in order to reactivate your account.
For more troubleshooting information, Gmail for your Domain administrators can either visit their Help Center or ask questions and share answers on the Help Discussion Forum.
Now I can kiss that webmail client goodbye.