Now it is time to setup some Domain Aliases to get to the apps. Domain Aliases are kinda like shortcuts to get to the other links.Email - http://mail.google.com/a/segudavr.com
So checking email at this address may not be the easiest link for me to remember, so I want to make it shorter. From my Google Apps Dashboard, I select "Email" under the Service Settings. From there I see a "Web Address". I can then "Change URL" and it provides me an option to select http://mail.segudavr.com/. So I will select this option and then Continue. It tells me that I need to change some more Go Daddy DNS Settings and create a CNAME record of mail with ghs.google.com as the destination address. I will just select "I've completed these steps" and go on.
Now I will do the same to Calendar and set it to http://calendar.segudavr.com/. The same process is done for Docs (http://docs.segudavr.com/) and Sites (http://sites.segudavr.com/).
So now let's go back to Go Daddy's Total DNS Control and make our changes. It is better to delete an entry and to create a new one. So let's first delete the CNAME mail entry that points mail to pop.secureserver.net. In fact, we can delete all CNAME entries except www and ftp.
Here are my default entries, the ones in RED I am going to delete:
www @
ftp @
googleffffffffbf4cc94c google.com
mobilemail mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
pda mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
email email.secureserver.net
imap imap.secureserver.net
mail pop.secureserver.net
pop pop.secureserver.net
smtp smtp.secureserver.net
webmail webmail.secureserver.net
e email.secureserver.net
Now that these are deleted, I will add the following. I have to do these individually by going to "Add New CNAME Record" and adding each Alias pointed to ghs.google.com with a TTL of 1/2 Hour. The Aliases are mail calendar docs sites
Now all of these aliases should be online within 30 minutes. Mine only took 5. Stay tuned to PART 4
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