Google Apps for work

[Captain_Amazing]

I am in Google Apps deployment and I have a certain question. Let's say I am hosting my domain on Afrihost and I migrate my e-mails to Google Apps. Theoretically this sounds impossible since MX records are changed to Google, but Is it possible to still have some e-mail addresses handled by Afrihost and some on Google Apps ?

 

[mikegreen]

No, I don't think it is, unfortunately. I asked myself the same question when I moved over to Zoho.
Besides, I think it's better to keep all email accounts in one place - why would you want them in separate places anyway?

 

[AdrianH]

I am in Google Apps deployment and I have a certain question. Let's say I am hosting my domain on Afrihost and I migrate my e-mails to Google Apps. Theoretically this sounds impossible since MX records are changed to Google, but Is it possible to still have some e-mail addresses handled by Afrihost and some on Google Apps ?

Good news, it is possible. Basically you can tell that any email address on existing on Google Apps must be passed onto another mail server.

Our company has about 30 emails address on Google, mainly for the senior staff. This gives them the ability to access there emails on their mobile devices, as well as keeping it all in sync when using Outlook, plus it makes a handy online backup. The rest of the email addresses exist on another mail server. You then setup then setup a default route which only applies to recognized email address, and anything else is routed to another mail server. Basically, all incoming emails for your domain will hit the Google email server, and then unrecognised email addresses will be routed to the another email server.

 

[Captain_Amazing]

Imagine you are a small company but have about 20 e-mail accounts that still work but only receive e-mail once in a while but you want them to be able to send e-mails and be managed by different users. You don't want to spend money on such simple accounts if you have other options. I don't think aliases would work in this case.

 

[Captain_Amazing]

Good news, it is possible. Basically you can tell that any email address on existing on Google Apps must be passed onto another mail server.

Our company has about 30 emails address on Google, mainly for the senior staff. This gives them the ability to access there emails on their mobile devices, as well as keeping it all in sync when using Outlook, plus it makes a handy online backup. The rest of the email addresses exist on another mail server. You then setup then setup a default route which only applies to recognized email address, and anything else is routed to another mail server. Basically, all incoming emails for your domain will hit the Google email server, and then unrecognised email addresses will be routed to the another email server.

Thank you Adrian. Any link that helps with implementing this . I would like to try this out ASAP.

 

[AdrianH]

Thank you Adrian. Any link that helps with implementing this . I would like to try this out ASAP.

We did this 2 years ago, so pretty rusty now. But you can check out https://support.google.com/a/answer/2368153?hl=en

I checked my console quick, you need to make the changes under Apps > Google Apps > Seetings for Gmail > Advanced Settings.

Under the Hosts tab, add you current mail server as a "Host".

Under Default Routing, add the default route

• "All Recipients" is selected
• "Modify message" is selected
• "Change Route" and "Reroute Spam" checked under Route, and the host created above is selected in the dropdown.
• At the bottom, "Perform this action only on non-recognised addresses."

You will need to change your current MX-Records for you domain to point to Google Mail Servers

https://support.google.com/a/answer/140034?hl=en

https://support.google.com/a/answer/174125

1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.