MediaTemple Account Center Domain Tab

Just recently, a client of mine wanted to change their email platform over to Google Apps. The main reason being that the default web-based platform for MediaTemple(MT) being “Horde” just wasn’t to their liking. So, since I provide & manage their hosting through MT, I thought it would be nice to write this out briefly since there isn’t much in the way of documentation on MT’s knowledgebase.

1. Make sure you’ve backed up your existing email accounts on this domain to your liking, because we’re going live with Google Apps and Gmail through this process
2. Login to your MT AccountCenter
3. Choose the domain you’re interested in using Google Apps on, and select “Edit Zone File”
4. Remove any existing MX records
5. Add the additional 5 MX and 1 Cname records from below to your zone file
6. The last step requires you to login to your Plesk Control Panel and switch off the mail services for the domain in question
7. That should do the trick…We’re just directing your mail services to Google, and if you decrease the TTL it should replicate quicker than usual

1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
CNAME - ghs.google.com.