Gmail for small business

After you have gone to google apps

and set up your business domain name

As you’ll have worked out, Google doesn’t give you the best web addresses to access your Google Apps email, docs, etc.

To make this more simple, go to each service in your Google Apps Dashboard and click ‘change url’, pick the one it gives you (usually mail.[mysite.com], etc. ) and click ok.

It will then tell you how to adjust your DNS settings appropriately, but to make this simpler, login to your DNS control panel in SliceHost (or whatever DNS service your using) and add some CNAME aliases.

type: CNAME

name: mail

data: ghs.google.com

type: CNAME

name: start

data: ghs.google.com

type: CNAME

name: docs

data: ghs.google.com

type: CNAME

name: calendar

data: ghs.google.com

• Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com
• Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
• Authentication: email@gmail.com + email password
• ‘Use secure Socket Layer (SSL)’
• Ports: 587 Outgoing, 993 Incoming