Hetzner email through Google apps for business

[SlinkyMike]

Having recently bought Google apps for business, I now want to route my Hetzner hosted email and calendar through Gmail.

I'm able to update CNAME records etc. but not knowledgeable enough to know what the hell to update them to. Hoping one of you have done this before and are able to point me in the right direction...

I have searched and also contacted Google but no response as yet and my Google-fu has failed me.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[AirWolf]

Type	        Name 	Value	                                   TTL
CNAME	        mail	  ghs.google.com	                  1 Hour
MX	        @	  alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 10)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx2.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx3.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx4.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx5.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour

 

[SlinkyMike]

Type	        Name 	Value	                                   TTL
CNAME	        mail	  ghs.google.com	                  1 Hour
MX	        @	  alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 10)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx2.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx3.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx4.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx5.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour

My Man!

So I enter that one CNAME and all those MX records, wait for all that to propagate then the emails to that address should start appearing in Gmail?

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Type	        Name 	Value	                                   TTL
CNAME	        mail	  ghs.google.com	                  1 Hour
MX	        @	  alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 20)  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx.l.google.com (Priority: 10)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx2.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx3.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx4.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour	
MX	        @	  aspmx5.googlemail.com (Priority: 30)	  1 Hour

This is outdated - especially the priorities - a better option is the official recommendation: https://support.google.com/a/answer/174125

I would initially leave the TTL to 1 hour and if you are happy, change it to 24 hours.

More explanation here: https://support.google.com/quickfixes/answer/6252374?hl=en

Once the above works, add DMARC (https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466563?hl=en) and SPF (https://support.google.com/a/answer/178723?hl=en).

Then add your domain to the Postmaster tools (https://postmaster.google.com)

 

[AirWolf]

I registered my domain about 10 years ago - copied what I had in there.

Edit: And priorities are relative.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Thanks guys, really appreciate the help.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Its working - thanks again peeps.