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Google Apps for Education: HEALTH Alliance account providing email service
The HEALTH Alliance has is currently using Google Apps for Education to manage Alliance email.
The account can be accessed here: http://mail.halliance.org
Configuration
DNS: MX for email routing
- Login to your everyDNS account. (Their website can be reached at either everyDNS.com or everyDNS.net)
- Select the domain you want to configure.
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Add records under Add a Record form, for example:
Fully Qualified Domain Name: fill with your domain name, e.g. halliance.org
Record Type: MX
Record Value: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
If MX Record, MX Value: 1
- There are several MX records and you need to add them all one-by-one. ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. is the primary value and that's why you set the MX Value to 1. For the rest, fill the same for Domain Name and Record Type, and the Record Value and MX Value per the following table:
| Record Value | MX Value |
|---|---|
| ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM | 1 |
| ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. | 5 |
| ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. | 5 |
| ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
| ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
| ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
| ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. | 10 |
(adapted from ankablog site)
DNS: CNAME for sudomain setup
- Make sure that you have enabled the subdomains in Google Apps here:
manage this domain >> Domain Settings >> Domain names
- To set up the google Apps subdomains (e.g. mail.halliance.org, calendar.halliance.org, docs.halliance.org etc.) on your DNS host, follow the instructions above for EveryDNS, but instead create a CNAME record for the subdomain pointing to ghs.google.com . For example:
| host | type | value |
|---|---|---|
| mail.halliance.org | CNAME | ghs.google.com |
SMTP Server
Plone, Moodle and other systems can use Google Apps as an SMTP server to send email.
- SMPT server: smpt.gmail.com
- SMTP port: 587
- username: full email address of a dedicated mail account
- password: account password
- secure connection: TLS enabled
Notes
- Google Apps shares APIs for integrating systems using Active Directory, LDAP and OpenID for authentication
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