Gmail for your domain 12
Last night I received my invitation for Google’s domain hosting. This gives me a gmail account for a custom domain name along with the integrated Google Calendar and Chat.
On one of my non-work projects, we’re now using this to share our calendars and host email.
Thanks Google!
You can sign up for your invite here.
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I’ve been on the beta for a while now and I just love it. However, I believe it’s limited to 25 users by domain. (plenty enough for me)
Yeah… right now I only need a few email addresses. :-)
Hey Robby, I’ve been beta testing it too. How did you resolve the mx/cname issue? I’m trying to point mydomain.net and www.mydomain.net to www.mydomain.com
CNAME records for mydomain.net cannot co-exist with mx definitions…
Argh, a need a crash course on DNS :-P
Luis,
What are you using to manage your DNS?
Email to the domain just points to their long list of servers.
Robby,
I’m using Sitelutions (part of a old account I have with them).
This domain just redirects to my .com one. I didn’t want to brake the existing mail system.
Also using subdomains for dyndns.
If I add a CNAME to my root domain (not www. subdomain) the mx records no longer “exist” (when doing a mx query with mxtoolbox )
Posted on Google Groups, no answer yet.
Ok, got my answers:
An MX record and a CNAME record cannot coexist at the same place in the DNS. That is, a name cannot be both a mail domain and an alias to something that isn’t a mail domain.
That’s why they exist. Note that you should never redefine the zone itself with a CNAME. That constitutes an illegal combination of DNS RR’s. Define an A record for coffee.com and a CNAME record for (for example) www.coffee.com that refers to coffee.com, as follows:
Need to change my dns records ;-)
Sorry for the noise :-D
You can use this with ActionMailer? how?
It seems like it let me instantly sign up! Maybe because I already have an analytics account, I dunno.
Anyway, I am confused as to how to add the DNS records to everyDNS. Are the Google hosts supposed to be the “host” field, or the “value” field? And what goes in the other field? Right now I have it set to:
host type value MX ttl mail.domain.com MX ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 1 3600 mail.domain.com MX ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 3600but I suspect this is wrong.
Nevermind, FlashHaterLap helped me on IRC. You are supposed to only use “domain.com”, anything else for the host will not work.
Hmm, looks interesting! How transparent is it? Can outside users tell that you use GMail servers? (Outside of sending queries for your MX records of course..)
Cheers, Ilya
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