Your Domain With Google Apps (PART 2 - Email Setup)

Now here is where we start getting everything to come together. You should now be in your Google Apps Dashboard. Let’s start with Email. Press the “Activate email” link. You will now have the instructions listed below. Complete these steps . . . I changed the TTL from 1 week to ½ hour for initial setup. After you confirm your email is working you can change it back to 1 week. The default MX values for Go Daddy are “0 / @ / smtp.secureserver.net / 1 Hour” and “10 / @ / mailstore1.secureserver.net / 1 Hour”. Delete these entries in step 7.

1. Log in to your account at http://www.godaddy.com
2. Open the Domains tab and select My Domain Names. You'll be directed to the Manage Domains page
3. Click the domain that you'd like to use with Google Apps
4. From the Domain Details panel along the right, select the + icon under the Total DNS Control list item. A sub-list will appear.
5. Click the entry titled Total DNS Control And MX Records. The Manage MX Records, and DNS Zone File panel will appear.
6. Click Launch Total DNS Control Manager. The DNS Manager window will appear
7. Clear all existing MX Records by clicking Delete
8. Click OK in the confirmation dialogue box.
9. Once you've deleted all existing records, click Add New MX Record. The MX (Mail Exchangers) Record Wizard will appear
10. For each MX Record, enter information according to the data in the table below:
    For the Select the Priority Value drop-down menu, enter the priority value.
    For Enter a Host Name, leave the default setting to @.
    For Enter Goes To Address enter the Google server name in the table below. Be sure to include the trailing dot at the end of each record
    For the Select TTL Value drop-down menu, enter 1 Week. This will appear as 604800 seconds within the DNS system.
    10 @ ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1 week
    20 @ ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1 week
    30 @ ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1 week
    40 @ ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 1 week
    50 @ ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 1 week
11. Click Continue
12. Click Add to confirm each entry. The DNS Manager main page will reappear when you've finished
    
    When you are done, press “I have completed these steps”. This should take a few hours to work properly. You should be now back at your Google Apps Dashboard. We will continue the setup in STEP 3