So if you want to provide business email ids of type 'name@yourdomain.com' to all your employees for internal communication or external communication with clients, you also need to buy email hosting from some company along with registering domain name.
I am going to explain here the alternative of buying email hosting from some web hosting company, which could also save money for your organization in addition to provide you with some great services for free.
Google Apps is the service provided by google as part of providing email hosting services. Google Apps has different editions for the type of users and with specific collection of services for each editions.
For free service, you can choose standard edition, in which it provides upto 50 email accounts of type 'name@yourdomain.com' for free and other services like Google talk, Google calendar,Google Sites and Google Docs are provided in addition.
How to configure your custom domain name with Google Apps?
1. Sign Up for the Google Apps
2. Select your User Type and enter your domain name. if you don't have the domain, you can buy it from google and proceed.
3. Fill up the form provided and sign up.
4. Now go to DNS Management interface in control panel provided by your web hosting service provider, and you have to add/modify CNAME and MX records provided by Google.
There you are..!!! You are done with setting up Google Apps for your custom domain now.
You can create different users and groups and also restict and unrestrict them to use any of the services provided in Google Apps.
The main advantages of using Google App over other email hosting services are the free sevices it provides.
Note: You should wait for about 48 hours to propagate the changes you have made in DNS Management. So please have some patience.
If you still face any problem, feel free to contact me on shahbrijal@gmail.com or you can post your comment to this post.
Glad to help you guys..!!!
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