Google Aps for email

[noworyz]

I have been using Google Aps for your domain on my website hosted through a different host rather than my plesk server. Now I am wanting to swtich it to my plesk server and I can not get the CNAME records to create correctly. Google wants me to create a CNAME such as mail.domain.com and set its value to ghs.google.com.

In plesk mail.domain.com is already set as a A. If I try and change the setting for mail.egriz.com to a CNAME it gives me an error.

Does anyone know how I setup to use GAFYD for email with my domain hosted on my plesk server? Do I have to delete any DNS setting s and remake them?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Chris

 

[noworyz]

another question...

Would it be ok to set this cname as email.domain.com witha value of ghs.google.com and then leave the mail.domain.com and the MX setting alone.

Would this cause an issue with how the email is run? Should I disable the mail server if I do this or can I leave it on to use it for php scripts?

I am learning so I am sorry if these are dumb questions

 

[sieb@]

You can't use mail.domain.tld as a CNAME without deleting the A record created by Plesk. You also cannot leave your own MX record in DNS, you have to replace yours with all of Google's required MX records otherwise it will fail to work. Their servers check periodically to make sure your DNS is still setup correctly.

What I do is setup gmail.domain.tld as the CNAME and give that to my users as their new webmail. I give my users a week to get acclimated with Gmail then I disable their domain's Plesk based email/webmail. This has no effect on PHP scripts as disabling it removes the domain from Qmail's control files and it defaults to DNS lookups (note, Qmail doesn't pay attention to the server's Hosts file either).

 

[noworyz]

thanks for the reply. I did figure this out after a lot of playing around. The one thing I was forgetting to do was disable the mail server for that particular domain