Google is already known as "king of the web" for extremely clean and simple design, fast loading, and delivering arguably the bestresults of any search engine. And which has one of the most widely used email services across the globe, Gmail. And if you are running website, you most have already used google's many features like webmasters, analytics, adwords, google apps etc. They are really great features for webmasters.
Here i am going to talk about google apps, I hope most of you have already heard about it. The Google Apps basic package is free and you be able to create upto 10 email addresses for your company like info[@]domain.com, support[@]domain.com, sales[@]domain.com and so on. It's reallly a great features for those who want few email address in free of cost and which is fully reliable. If you have many staffs in you office, you can get Google Apps for Business, which will provide unlimited email address with some extra features for you like 25GB email storage per user, BlackBerry and Microsoft Outlook interoperability and more, SSO, forced SSL, custom password strength requirements and more, 99.9% uptime guarantee SLA and 24/7 support etc . But here i am going to talk about, how to set up free domain email addresses in google apps for you. Here are seven steps for you to configure the google apps:
Step One: Click here to start Google Apps.
Step Two: Click on the “Get Started” button for free service.
Step Three: Enter your domain name and go through the registration process.
Step Four: Once you have completed the registration process, you need to verify that you own the domain. You can do this through the following options:
- Add a DNS record to your domain configuration.
- Link to your Google Analytics account if you are already set up there.
- Upload an HTML file to your server.
- Add a meta tag to your site’s home page.
You can choose any one from the above options which feel you comfortable.
Step Five: Now it is time to activate your email.
Step Six: Select your host site from the drop down menu to get instructions for changing your MX records. Log into your host, and follow the steps through completely. Then click on “I have completed these steps” at the bottom.
Step Seven: Once your MX records are official and correct, go to your Google Apps home page and sign in. Click on “Organization and Users” on the top navigation menu, and then “Create New User.” Add the name and email that you want, and continue to do this for as many emails as you wish to set up (up to 50 with this free version of google apps). Click on “Email Instructions” after creating a user to email the login information to whoever you created the email address for.
Now you can log into your email from http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomainname/.
[Source Nirmal Blog]
