Josh

I love RoundCube, which I use to check my domain mail. But it doesn’t have a lot of the features I want yet, but it’s still in beta, so I’ll keep it around for a bit and see what wonders will happen.

I love Gmail and I’ve been using it for awhile now. When Google announced that they would be providing hosted gmail for your domain, I had to sign up. I recieved an invite not that long ago, but I’ve been putting it off for a bit. But I’m finally getting around to it.

Note that this is for Media Temple. If you have Dreamhost, Derek has a nice tutorial on how to set it up there.

I like to get the pain in the butt stuff out of the way first. And for me, that means dealing with the DNS of my domain. Media Temple has a great user interface so it’s easy to find what you want.

First, you’re going to want to login to the Media Temple account center. Click View/Manage Services. Find the DNS Zone header, which is on the bottom. Find the domain name you want to modify. Click the dropdown menu and select “modify zone file”.

You’re going to see a bunch of things that you don’t need to touch. The only one we care about is the MX Record, which for me was at the bottom.

You want to add a new record so click on that button. When it comes up, it’ll look like this:

Change the “A” to “MX” and in the text field to the right is where you want to put your new MX Server address. It’ll look something like this:

In the text area you are going to put two things. First, you’ll notive the number 10 in front of the server address. This is the priority level. If your original MX record had a 10 in front of it, use that same priority level and corresponding server address. After the number is the server address. When Google gives you a list of server addresses, they have a period at the end of it. Keep it. Meaning, make sure you have it at the end of the server address when you modify your zone file.

Once that is done, you want to delete the old MX record, so check the delete button. If something goes wrong, you can always reset your DNS records back to default.

I won’t bother to tell you how to customize because Derek already talked about that as well. Anyway, that’s it.

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