{"id":266,"date":"2017-02-02T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=266\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:56:20","slug":"point-mx-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/point-mx-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to point my email to Gmail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want your email messages to be delivered to Gmail instead of ScalaHosting, follow the steps below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Login to cPanel and click on&nbsp;<strong>Zone Editor<\/strong> which is under the&nbsp;<strong>Domains<\/strong> section.<\/li><li>Remove all MX entries of the domain name you want to point to Gmail.<\/li><li>After that add the Gmail MX entries as noted below.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Priority<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>MX Entry<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you do the changes allow 4-6 hours for DNS propagation. After that all your email messages will be sent to the Gmail servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use SPanel, the process is even more straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply log into SPanel&#8217;s User Interface and click <strong>Mail route<\/strong> under the <strong>Email<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"844\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/378.png\" alt=\"How to point my email to Gmail?\n\" class=\"wp-image-4142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/378.png 844w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/378-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/378-768x277.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the <strong>Remote mail exchanger <\/strong>radio button and then click&nbsp;the <strong>Gmail<\/strong> option. After you click <strong>Change<\/strong> <strong>Route<\/strong>, SPanel will automatically change your domain&#8217;s MX records so that it works with Gmail.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want your email messages to be delivered to Gmail instead of ScalaHosting, follow the steps below. Login to cPanel and click on&nbsp;Zone Editor which is under the&nbsp;Domains section. Remove all MX entries of the domain name you want to point to Gmail. After that add the Gmail MX entries as noted below. Priority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,52],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-hosting","tag-change-mx-entry","tag-set-gmail-servers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}