GoDaddy: Activate Gmail for Google Workspace

Tell the internet where to deliver your visitor's email messages

Why exercise I demand to do this?

When someone sends a message to sales@your-visitor.com, the sender's calculator looks up the MX records for @your-company.com to figure out where to deliver that email message.

Earlier your company tin can use Gmail with your Google Workspace account, you need to change your domain's MX records so they direct your incoming messages to Google'south postal service servers.

  • You lot'll get your new MX records from the Google Workspace setup tool.
  • You'll sign in to your domain registrar, deleteany existing MX records for your domain that route messages to your current email provider, and add the Google MX records.
  • One time your domain registrar publishes the Google MX records, nosotros'll activate Gmail for your domain.

Google tin't change your MX records for you lot. But the domain's owner can can do this.

Earlier you lot begin

This won't be easy, but we're here to aid.

DNS records accept been around since the beginning of the internet. This can be a challenging job, and the steps are different for each domain. Nosotros've tried to make this chore equally easy every bit possible, but you may become frustrated.

Please read advisedly, and we'll help you get through this!

Become ready to actuate Gmail

  • Every existing email address in your company has to be associated with a Google Workspace business relationship. Employ the setup tool to add any remaining electronic mail accounts.
  • Make sure at present is a expert time to make this change. Information technology tin can take up to 48 hours for the rest of the internet to learn about your new MX records. Your old email provider might receive some messages during this time.

You'll demand to sign in to GoDaddy

Earlier you lot go started, make sure you take the business relationship ID and countersign you lot demand to sign in to GoDaddy. If you accept trouble signing in to this account, observe out how to modify your GoDaddy password.

Open up the Google Workspace setup tool

You must employ the Google Workspace setup tool to complete this job. If you don't already take it open up in another tab, click beneath to open it.

Open the setup tool

Of import:We strongly suggest yous follow the instructions in the setup tool and only return to this page if you demand additional information.

I'one thousand stuck and demand assistance

I become an error when I click the blue push

The setup tool is for Google Workspace and Deject Identity administrators simply. It doesn't work with whatsoever other Google product.

Make certain you're signing in with an admin business relationship.

It says Gmail is activated for my domain

My electronic mail accost ends in @gmail.com

Oh no! You've ended upward in the incorrect place. Click here for assist with @gmail.com problems.

How to activate Gmail for Google Workspace

1

Find your DNS records

2

Ready the MX records for Google Workspace

(a)
Check your list of DNS records. If yous encounter existing MX records, delete them.
  1. Click the Delete button adjacent to an existing MX record.

    An existing MX record is highlighted

  2. Repeat these steps until yous've deleted all existing MX records.
(b)
ClickAdd at the peak of the DNS Records tabular array

The Add button is highlighted on the DNS records page.

(c)
Fill out the form.

All fields of the MX record are completed.

  • SelectMX for theBlazon.
  • Enter @ for theProper noun.
  • Enter thePriority for the MX tape you're adding (as listed in Workspace setup tool).
  • Paste one of the Google MX records into theValue field.
  • Leave theTTLfield set to Default.

ClickAdd tape to create your new MX record.

Where do I copy the Google MX records?

You should have the Google Workspace setup tool open up in some other tab. You can reopen the tool if you closed it.
(d)
Repeat Step B and Stride C until you've added all 5 Google MX records.

The setup tool wants me to add together a 6th MX record

If yous haven't protected your domain yet, the setup tool asks you to verify your domain while you're setting upwards your MX records. Yous need to enter a 6th MX record that includes a verification code that Google can use to ostend that you lot are the possessor of your domain:

  1. Scroll to the Get your verification code section in the setup tool and click Re-create
    The MX records table is shown and a red circle highlights the Copy button next to the MX verification record.
  2. Paste the verification lawmaking just like y'all did with the other Google MX records.
  3. Enter 15 for thePriority of this MX record.

Tell Google Workspace to actuate Gmail

(a)
Return to the browser tab where you take the Google Workspace setup tool open. (Yous tin can reopen the tool if you closed it.)
(b)
Scroll to the bottom of the folio and click Activate Gmail.

Of import! Some registrars may crave additional fourth dimension to publish your MX records. If the Google Workspace setup tool tin can't discover your new records, look an hour earlier you lot try once more.

If you demand additional help with your DNS settings, please contact your registrar. They are experts in managing your domain and are eager to help y'all.

Y'all might take to wait and try once again

Some registrars take longer than others to let the earth know that you have a new email provider:

  • If Google Workspace can't find your new MX records, come back in a couple of hours and click the Activatepush button again.
  • After yous activate Gmail, updates can have up to 48 hours. Until the rest of the internet notices your new MX records, you'll notwithstanding get email messages in your one-time email client.

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