setting gmail as your webmail interface/ Use gmail for your domain webmail interface

Step 1: Enable the login page for your mail accounts & verify ownership of your domain

Here's how to turn on the login page for your domain's mail accounts, and verify that you own the domain associated with your Google Apps account.

   1. Sign in to the control panel with your admin account (https://www.google.com/a/your_domain.com). Remember to replace your_domain.com with your actual domain name.

   2. Click Add more services, if email is not already listed in the Dashboard view.

   3. Click Add it now next to email. You'll be directed to the How to activate email page.

   4. Click Verify domain ownership.

   5. Follow the instructions to upload an HTML file to your website or create a CNAME record.

   6. When you've completed the instructions for uploading an HTML file or creating a CNAME record, click Verify. Please note that if you verified ownership using CNAME record, the verification process may take up to 48 hours to complete.

      If you’re still having trouble creating a CNAME record, learn more about what to tell your domain host for further assistance.

      If you continue to experience difficulty, you can also troubleshoot your CNAME records or check your CNAME record.

To create user accounts individually:

   1. Click Create new users on the Dashboard page of your control panel.

   2. Enter the first name, last name, and username.

   3. You can set a password of your choosing by clicking Set password.

   4. Click Create new user. You have the option to email or print the account information for the user.

   5. Repeat these steps for each user at your domain.

To create many user accounts at once:

   1. Click Advanced tools along the task bar of your control panel.

   2. Click User accounts bulk update under Advanced tools.

   3. Follow the bulk update instructions to upload a .csv file. It's important that you create a new user account for all existing users. For example, if brad@mydomain.com is one of your current users, be sure to create the same username with Google Apps.

Step 3: Test mail accounts

To test your mail accounts in Google Apps, you'll need to access your current personal or work email account (unrelated to Google Apps), your new email account with Google Apps, and a separate email account.

1. In the control panel, click User accounts from your Dashboard view.
2. Click your name (or the name of an account you'd like to test.) Make a note of the Temporary email address listed below the username.

If temporary email addresses are not available for users at your domain, you can test Google Apps with a domain alias.

3. Log in to your current personal or work email account (unrelated to Google Apps) and set up auto-forwarding to the temp address with Google Apps. (ex. danielle@thatsthewhip.com.test-google-a.com) Yes, we know it's an ugly address, but it's only temporary.
4. Log in to your Google Apps mail account at (http://mail.google.com/a/your_domain.com).
5. Send a message to a separate email account that you can check. (Don't choose an email account that is automatically forwarding to your domain).
   Note: If you see Can't send mail yet when you click Compose, we haven't finished verifying ownership of your domain. It can take up to 48 hours.
6. Access the separate email account that you sent a message to and reply back to your current personal or work email account.
7. Check the inbox of your Google Apps Email account for the message. It should arrive to your temporary address via forwarding from your current mail provider.

Step 4: Modify MX records with your domain host ( Click DNS settings on plesk )

Select your domain host from our MX record list to view instructions tailored for your DNS console. If your domain host is not listed, please use the general instructions provided below.

If you have difficulty adding the MX records that we provide, please contact your domain host for assistance. We provide MX record instructions, when possible, but you'll need to contact your domain host if you aren't able to enter the information that we provide.

General instructions for modifying MX records with any domain host

1. Log in to your account with your domain host. (Who is my domain host?)
2. Navigate to the MX record maintenance page.
   MX records may be located in DNS Management, Mail Server Configuration, or Name Server Management. It's possible that you will have to enable advanced settings to edit your MX records.
3. Delete existing MX records (this is will discontinue current email service).
4. Use the information in the following table when you enter each MX record.
   - You may not be able to enter the priority value exactly as it appears in the table below -- if you can't, make sure each record follows the indicated order (instead of 1, 5, 10, you can use 10, 20, 30, etc.).
   - If you aren't able to assign priorities, you should only enter aspmx.l.google.com.
   - Set any TTL values to the maximum allowed.
   - If you can't enter all five records, enter as many as you can.
   - MX records often require a trailing dot (.) at the end (for example, aspmx.l.google.com.).

Priority	Mail Server
1 *Top priority. Learn more	ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5	ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5	ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10	ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10	ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

Step 5: Final test

To perform the final test for your mail account, you need to access your Google Apps email account, your former email account for your domain, and a separate email account.

1. Sign in to your Google Apps mail account (http://mail.google.com/a/your_domain.com).
2. Compose a message to a separate email account that you can check, and click 'Send.' (Don't choose an email account that is automatically forwarding to your domain).
3. Sign in to the separate email account.
4. Open the message from your domain, and reply.
5. Check the inbox of your Google Apps mail account for the message.
6. Check the inbox of your former email account for your domain. The message shouldn't appear in your inbox.

If you're able to send and receive with your new email account, you've successfully switched your domain's email accounts to Google Apps!