How do I set up Gmail for my domain?

To get your domain's incoming email to appear in Gmail, you need to set up an MX record.

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Sign in to your domain's host account.
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Locate the page for updating your domain's DNS records.
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Locate the MX records for your domain.
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Update your existing MX records to point to Google's mail servers by entering these MX record values.
Delete any MX records not pointing to the Google servers, or give them a lower priority than the Google server records.
Save your changes and wait until they take effect. The changes can take up to 72 hours to go into effect depending on your domain host, but generally occur within a few hours.
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_{Name / Host / Alias}	_{Time to Live (TTL)}	_{Record Type}	_{Value / Answer / Destination}
_@	_{3600 (seconds)}	_MX	_{aspmx.l.google.com}

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