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June 23, 2008
Google App configuration for bind
On some websites, I really don't want to use free email address for contact, but spam email is an endless war. Google App allows me to use my own domain as email address, I can also enjoy all the power and features of Gmail, and it's free! What a perfect solution! If you are hosting your own email server and not satisfied with it, I strongly suggest you to give Google App a shot.
Here is the configuration for bind 9, only useful if you are hosting your own dns server. Take this site as an example, add the following lines into the domain's dns file:
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN MX 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN MX 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
Be sure to remove any other MX records.
To access your email, the default address is http://www.google.com/a/freebsdblog.org, if you prefer mail.freebsdblog.org, add a CNAME record:
freebsdblog.org. 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
After I used Google App for my software product site, hundreds of spam emails per day disappeared. I love it!
P.S. I should add that Google App is a perfect email solution for small businesses as well, you can add up to 100 email accounts for one domain. A friend of mine asked me to host his company website, it's a light traffic site and I'm fine with it, but his 50 employees' emails made me worried. Actually Google App has been around for a while, but I didn't try it as I'm the only email user on my server. Now Google App is carrying all these burdens for me. My friend is very happy with the solution, easy management, massive storage, nickname and many other Gmail features make Google App better any other free or even paid solutions.
Category : Email
Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at June 23, 2008 02:01 PM