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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) - Teil 18: Google Apps für Domain-Specific E-Mail

25. Juni
Google Apps-Logo

Einfaches Konfigurieren von GA's Standard Edition für catch-all@anydomain.com Webmail, plus POP-und IMAP-Mail-Zustellung auf Ihrem Desktop-Mail-Client.

Ob Sie dies wünschen als Standalone-E-Mail-Lösung, sonst zur Ergänzung Ihrer Shared, Virtual Privat-oder dedizierten Server, spart Zeit GA Eimer und Tritte gegen Spam in Verbindung.

Dieses Tutorial führt Sie von der ersten bis zu unterzeichnen Konfiguration von DNS und Abrufen von E-Mails auf Ihrem PC oder Mac.

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In 20 Kopieren / Einfügen Schritt .. From Zero To Hero, leeres Feld cute-wie Linux-Server.

Scroll down für die gesamte Serie Index.

Also, hey, Gem. Schuppen & viva virtual! Hope it helps. The_guv

Was ist Google Apps?

Kurz gesagt, ist es ziemlich Gmail. Oder vielmehr, es ist Google Mail, außer, dass anstelle der 1address @ gmail, erhalten Sie ein-paar-of-Adressen @ ihr-domain verwenden.

Warum Google Apps?

Für den Anfang bin ich billig und es ist kostenlos. (Na ja, ist Google Apps Standard kostenlos.) Dann gibt es den Multi-Gig Lagerung, bekannt, dass Google Mail-Benutzeroberfläche, die gebündelte Kalender und andere G-Waren. Aber was Ich mag diese Partie --

  • einfaches Setup
  • domain-spezifischen
  • POP-und IMAP-Optionen
  • hervorragende ressourcenschonender
  • unmittelbaren hassle-free Spam-Kontrolle

Schauen wir uns diese Punkte ein wenig genauer, 'cos sie sind es wert.

Setup

Einrichten GA dauert 10 Minuten, 25 oder vielleicht zum ersten Mal mit dieser Anleitung und die Links. Und es ist verdammt einfach zu tun. For sure, leichter als die Konfiguration eines Mail-Servers wie Courier oder Dovecot.

Domain-Specific

Dies ist kein Hotmail, es ist Google Apps. Nichts davon john1973@prettyHorrible.com. Verwenden Sie Ihre Domain. Tatsächlich benutzen anything-you-like@yourdomain.com, weil es ein catch-all-Anlage zu.

POP-und IMAP-Optionen

Ich persönlich bin kein großer Fan Webmail. Ich mag meine E-Mails, kinda like my gesehen - vor Ort. Mit GA, neben den Remote-Zugriff, wir können den POP-oder IMAP.

Ressourcenschonender

Für Webmaster, der wichtigste Grund, einem externen Mail-mod verwenden ist vielleicht dieses: zu filtern jeden letzten Rest von VPS-Ressource auf Ihre Webseiten und Blogs.

Spam

Und hier ist der große Bonus. Haben Sie schon einmal eingerichtet SpamAssassin? Huch! Betcha wollen nicht zu haben, um durch zu gehen, dass alle wieder. Mit GA, in der Nähe, wie zum Teufel, ist Spam ein nicht konfigurierbare non-story, full-stop. Nichts tun, als Spam-frei, und verbringen mehr Zeit am Strand. Für viele ist dies der Grund, # 1 GA zu verwenden und nicht mit Ihrem eigenen Mail-Server zu stören. Abgesehen davon, ist Spam eine Ressource hog.

Und?

Ich wage zu behaupten, es gibt andere Gründe. Lemme wissen.

Why Not Google Apps?

Es gibt Bedenken in Bezug auf Anonymität Stichwort Forschung Google zielgerichtete Anzeigen und, hey, wer weiß, was andere große Bruder Taktik. Wenn Sie etwas zu verbergen hast, ist GA nicht für Sie.

Ist so etwas wie eine Verschwörung buff mich, würde ich mich besonders daran interessiert, Ihre Meinung hören. Sofern Ihre E-Mail-Adresse enthält, cia die Buchstaben ", bitte Chip in.

Can't Find the Google Apps Free Edition?

Apropos Verschwörung, ist das GA freebie ziemlich gut versteckt, huh ;)

Google Google Apps und Sie werden an die BIZ-Version genommen werden, Google Apps, die eine dunkle Link zum kostenlosen Dienst Google Apps Standard Edition verwendet haben. Dieser Zusammenhang ist seit mysteriöse Weise verschwunden. Google so etwas wie ein kostenloses Google Apps und die nicht-Cost-Paket ist noch nicht einmal auf der Seite Ergebnisse, und mein Google-Seite ist so konfiguriert, dass die Top 100 Ergebnisse zurückgeben.

Hey, ich denke, es ist gerade ein pap pagerank. Hmmn, you be the judge.

Aber keine Sorge, pet ..

Wie Setup Google Apps

Gehen Sie hier, um sich für die kostenlose Standard Edition. Wenn Sie wiegen bis das Geschäftskonto, dass mehr als hier ist, und kostet $ 50 pro Jahr.

Für die meisten von uns, darunter kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, das Freebie Service ist hervorragend aus. Und ich kann hinzufügen, einen großen Jubel auf der allmächtige G für eine große ging-gang Googly Geschenk. Cool Sarkasmus beiseite, kurz, I appreciate it.

Google Apps Premiere vs Standard Edition

Weiß nicht. Ich bin Freiberufler und habe noch nie Premiere für einen Kunden eingestellt. Wenn Sie ein paar Dutzend Personen beschäftigen, genießen Sie Premiere und Pflege mich wissen zu lassen, werde ich hinzufügen, etwas ausführlicher. Ich habe irgendwo gelesen, dass sie fügen Sie einige API's, so that's nice.

Anmeldung bis GA

and click Get Started Check-Administrator, Geben Sie Ihren Domain-Namen und klicken Sie auf Get Started

. Auf der Anmeldung für Google Apps Standard Edition Seite, füllen Sie die administrativen Details und klicken Sie auf Weiter.

, a password , and Continue by accepting the T's & C's . Auf dem Erstellen Ihres ersten Administratorkontos Seite Wählen Sie einen Benutzernamen und ein Passwort, und weiter durch die Annahme der T & C's.

Domain-Inhaberschaft bestätigen

Regie zu Ihrem GA Dashboard, neben einem Warnschild Sie eine Nachricht sehen ..

"Aktivieren von Google Apps-Services müssen Sie sicherstellen, dass Sie Ihre Domain - somedomain.com eigenen."

.. und neben dem, der einen Link Domain-Inhaberschaft bestätigen, so klicken Sie sich durch die.

Auf der Bestätigungs-Seite unter "Wählen Sie Bestätigungs-Methode in der Drop-down-Menü, Sie haben 2 Möglichkeiten zu proove Sie Ihre eigene Domain, entweder durch die Schaffung eines CNAME-Datensatz, sonst durch das Hochladen einer HTML-Seite für Google zu überprüfen.

Um es einfach: --

1. HTML-Datei hochladen

Das ist einfacher. Es sei denn: Entweder haben Sie einen Domain-Namen, aber keine Website, sonst können Sie keinen Zugriff auf die Website Backend, in beiden Fällen, um die Option CNAME überspringen, die Anwendung dieser Einstellungen an Ihren Domain-Registrator-Konto.

Klicken Sie auf die Option HTML und Google generiert einen Code.

Nun, Crack, eine Standard-Vorlage oder HTML-Seite, hey, nutzen Sie einfach die: -- 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ADD GOOGLE APPS CODE HERE -->
</body>
</html>

...and in the 'body' section, as I've pinpointed above, add Google's code.

Save that file as googlehostedservice.html and upload to your site root.

If you want to get all complicato, you can instead opt to ..

2. Create a CNAME Record

This is fairly easy, tho' it can require a little webhost-specific research 'cos the process and jargon varies from host to host. Google spell it out for some hosts, so I suggest you take a look at this .

For a general idea, watch this video which I've pinched from Google.

Video: Set Up CNAME for Google Apps

Watch the, er, guvideo for a better idea of how to do this.

Check out the_guv's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/guvnrDOTcom

...or if you can't be bothered with that, or even if you can, here's the detail...

Some Pointers

  • Not all shared hosts allow users direct CNAME access. If you can't find them, maybe you have to make a special request, then waitttttt.
  • If in doubt, check out your hosting provider forum or, hey, just set up the html page as above.
  • CNAME's take up to 48 hours to propogate. The email option takes maybe an hour, in my experience.

Verify Your Verification

Whether you chose to claim domain name ownership using the html page or a CNAME record, don't forget to tab back to the Google Apps page and click on Verify , under the drop-down.

And wait.

Accessing Email with Google Apps

Access your new GA account by heading to https://www.google.com/a/yourdomain.tld , swapping yourdomain.tld for your domain.

If the domain hasn't been verified, probably because the process needs more time, you'll see a notification. Try again later.

When it has been verified:-

Click on Inbox (in the top menu, so not the Email link) to check your mail (or personalised Gmail), and maybe send some test mails.

And customise whatever other GA settings to suit.

POP or IMAP to Your Mail Client - Outlook, Thunderbird etc

POP. IMAP. What Gives?

Give or take, blessed if I know! But these splendid folks do, so thank you very much:-

POP IMAP
Post Office Protocol Internet Messaging Access Protocol
Best if you use only one computer to check email Best if you use many different computers to check your email
Downloads your email to the particular computer yo Nun, Crack, eine Standard-Vorlage oder HTML-Seite, hey, nutzen Sie einfach die: -- 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ADD GOOGLE APPS CODE HERE -->
</body>
</html>

...and in the 'body' section, as I've pinpointed above, add Google's code.

Save that file as googlehostedservice.html and upload to your site root.

If you want to get all complicato, you can instead opt to ..

2. Create a CNAME Record

This is fairly easy, tho' it can require a little webhost-specific research 'cos the process and jargon varies from host to host. Google spell it out for some hosts, so I suggest you take a look at this .

For a general idea, watch this video which I've pinched from Google.

Video: Set Up CNAME for Google Apps

Watch the, er, guvideo for a better idea of how to do this.

Check out the_guv's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/guvnrDOTcom

...or if you can't be bothered with that, or even if you can, here's the detail...

Some Pointers

  • Not all shared hosts allow users direct CNAME access. If you can't find them, maybe you have to make a special request, then waitttttt.
  • If in doubt, check out your hosting provider forum or, hey, just set up the html page as above.
  • CNAME's take up to 48 hours to propogate. The email option takes maybe an hour, in my experience.

Verify Your Verification

Whether you chose to claim domain name ownership using the html page or a CNAME record, don't forget to tab back to the Google Apps page and click on Verify , under the drop-down.

And wait.

Accessing Email with Google Apps

Access your new GA account by heading to https://www.google.com/a/yourdomain.tld , swapping yourdomain.tld for your domain.

If the domain hasn't been verified, probably because the process needs more time, you'll see a notification. Try again later.

When it has been verified:-

Click on Inbox (in the top menu, so not the Email link) to check your mail (or personalised Gmail), and maybe send some test mails.

And customise whatever other GA settings to suit.

POP or IMAP to Your Mail Client - Outlook, Thunderbird etc

POP. IMAP. What Gives?

Give or take, blessed if I know! But these splendid folks do, so thank you very much:-

POP IMAP
Post Office Protocol Internet Messaging Access Protocol
Best if you use only one computer to check email Best if you use many different computers to check your email
Downloads your email to the particular computer you are checking it on Your mail is always on the server
Allows you to keep a large backlog of email messages only limited by the size of your computer. You are limited by your mailbox size quota for how many messages you keep, although you can archive old messages and save them onto your computer manually.
Does not have a web interface (Some webmail companies, such as Yahoo, will let you check POP mail) Has a web interface. If you are using NCF Webmail, you are using IMAP.
New messages are downloaded in their entirety, you have to wait for the message to download. New message headers are downloaded so you see all your mail faster, the message you want to read is not downloaded to your computer until you click on it.

Activating POP

With Google Apps, as with Gmail, POP is already activated. So if you don't want IMAP, just the POP protocol, head here for instructions relevant to your specific mail client.

Hey, I'm not kopping out on the instructions. Google's instructions cover a bunch of email clients, and they have some pretty pics too.

Activating IMAP

Do this lot:-

  • From your Google Apps Dashboard, click on Inbox
  • Now in Gmail, click on Settings in the top menu
  • Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP
  • Next to IMAP Access, checkmark Enable IMAP
  • Save Changes
  • For your specific mail client IMAP setup instructions, click here .

Ditto above in the POP section. Google's instructions cover a wide range of email clients, and I can't improve on them, plus they've got pretty pics.

Booting Up Next ..

So that's the email sorted. And for webmaestros there's no resource footprint on the VPS.

In Part 19: Moving Day! How to Move Your Blog or Site we'll work through the best procedure for a smooth transition to your new server, be it shared, VPS or dedicated. I'll wrap this VPS Bible series with a handy bunch of Linux resources (and a thank you list to all those sparks who've helped make this series, and my personal VPS Linux learning curve, possible).

And then there'll be some follow-up appendice posts with advice for maintaining this tasty Nginx-powered web server.

Meantime, here's that index ..


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  1. VPS (Virtual Private Server) vs Shared vs Dedicated
  2. Set Up a VPS Linux Distribution   *
  3. Set Up the Command Line Interface (CLI) using PuTTY   *
  4. Create a Linux User & Set Permissions   *
  5. Encrypt Data with OpenSSH & Auto-Login with PuTTY   *
  6. Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) & Create a Firewall   *
  7. Edit bashrc for User-Friendly Linux, plus System Updates   *
  8. PHP5, MySQL, Xcache, Subversion (for Platforms like WordPress)   *
  9. Add a Domain Zone to Your VPS   *
  10. Prepare Linux Server for Email with Postfix   *
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  12. Setup FileZilla for Secure FTP (SFTP)   *
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  14. Set up WordPress on Nginx with Pretty URLs & WP Super Cache   *
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  1. Ashesh August 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    Hi Guv,

    I have not worked out this chapter but I have few questions to ask if you may please answer:

    1. There is no mention of how to setup MX records for google in DNS manager. I am wondering why?

    2. IN DNS manger there is already an entry mail.domainname.com 10. Do I have to delete it before adding the google server?

    3. For reverse DNS we had set mail.domainname.com. Would that have any effect if we change MX records?

    I am sure after going through these questions you would have understood how much of a newbie I am : P

    It would be really great if you could add something regarding MX setup in DNS manger for Google Apps.

    Thanks

  2. the_guv August 28th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Hey Ashesh,

    Sorry for delay .. was cooking a mobile ROM, or rather heating one up in the microwave, and how fiddly was that : P

    "There is no mention of how to setup MX records for google in DNS manager. I am wondering why?"

    .. 'cos this is a newbie guide, that complicates the issue, varies from VPS provider to VPS provider and just really isn't necessary. This method is simpler, and faster to propagate.

    "IN DNS manger there is already an entry mail.domainname.com 10. Do I have to delete it before adding the google server?"

    .. don't touch it. Did I say to touch it? ;)

    "3. For reverse DNS we had set mail.domainname.com. Would that have any effect if we change MX records?"

    .. No. If you wanna go get complicato and change MX records, or if you don't, your RDNS won't be affected.

    "I am sure after going through these questions you would have understood how much of a newbie I am : P "

    .. No. You're right to question these things, I reckon. While this guide is intended as a copy and paste and you need know nothing, it's obviously better if you have some idea of what's what and why.

    "It would be really great if you could add something regarding MX setup in DNS manger for Google Apps."

    .. refer above. Really truly scrumptious, it's not necessary here, and would lead to more problems than it's worth. If it made any difference to security or performance, I'd add it.

    Tx for all your comments Anesh, Bible-wide. I'm sure they'll answer some q's for a few folks. Appreciated, Sir.

  3. sagar kumar sutar September 17th, 2009 at 6:57 am

    Please tell me how to add my website link with google app and my requirement is to log in my mail directly over website.

    Thanks in advance.
    sagar

  4. the_guv September 18th, 2009 at 7:11 am

    @sagar .. hi to you. but sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking, exactly.

    "add my website link with google app" - guide covers that, no? (maybe it's covered from one of the GA links in the post.)

    "requirement to log in my mail directly over website" - can you flesh that out please, and I'll try to help.

  5. Mart September 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Hi Guv,
    I like your series. Just want to comment here that Google's automatic spam settings are a big negative in my opinion. I find that it has far too many false positives making the service too unreliable. It would be great if you could simply turn it off but Google doesn't allow that.
    Cheers
    Mart

  6. the_guv September 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 am

    @Mart .. thank you, Sir. Jolly kind.

    Tell me, how do you know about the false positives?! Pls tell me more.

  7. Brett J September 30th, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Hi Guvnr, first off, your guide is great! It covers so many area's, and really appreciate the depth you go in solving usual bits that can go wrong.

    I'm giving the Google Apps a try here, and am currently at the point of setting the MX records up. Although every vps provider have there own way of setting things up, one option not listed is a webmin route, which means you install bind on your server, and go by that.

    When using a stock webmin install, they can edit or copy paste settings into their domain file. I'm trying to set up brettjames.au.com , and that would be in "/etc/bind/brettjames.au.com.hosts"

    Currently though I'm having trouble putting in the settings, here is how my mx records are setup:
    http://pastie.org/636278

    Could you suggest a change in order to have it appear in a lookup?

    As a sidenote, Google recommends using dnsstuff, because it updates live, instead of a cached response. Example:
    http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/legacy/?ToolFormName=googlemx&domain=brettjames.au.com&r=235660

    That would main any changes would be noticed straight away, avoiding you having to change, wait, then change again if needed..

  8. the_guv October 6th, 2009 at 6:18 am

    @Brett .. you are a lovely man.

    sorry for delay .. damn, been rebuilding both my boxes, well out of the loop. bloody motherboard cracked on one, the other, well, i just wanted the hassle.

    you sorted? looked at yer pastie. thing is, it varies from web host to host .. you need to ask them or the forum there. personally, i don't bother going that route anymore, which probably is terribly unprofessional, but it's just so easy to scp an authentication page, way quicker than logging into and navigating my manager. my manager gets lonely, i think. that's got to be a good sign :)

    webmin, you say .. webmin CP with Nginx - last i heard there was veeeeeeeeeery sluggish development going on with any nginx-mod. i like webmin tho, nice and light, as cp's go. if or when (i'd guess when) that is available, or more reluctantly any other cp, i'll for sure be adding a bunch of tuts about installing and using it.

  9. kevinayP December 16th, 2009 at 2:36 am

    Hi Guv,

    I got Google Apps working, including mail, verified, etc. But the address to go to read my mail from Google Apps is "http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com". Google said that to change it to "http://mail.mydomain.com/" I'd have to modify the CNAME records for "mail" and a verification string. I already have a mail A/AAAA record - would that affect things up? I'd also like to add that I actually haven't installed Postfix yet. And I haven't changed my reverse DNS. I want Google Apps to manage my e-mail from "http://mail.mydomain.com/" - how can I do that and what should I do next? : D

    Thanks,
    Kevin

  10. Brett December 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    Hey! Remembered I had a comment on it to go from. For the original note I left, it turned out to be a waiting game - just had to wait it out. I'm on a vps, so I didn't need a working.

    I've differed slightly in some of my settings for the postfix section of the guide on here (that's part 10). The webserver will be serving multiple domainnames, so I thought that it wouldn't be as simple as setting the hostname to resolve to a singular name.

    Besides that though, I havn't been able to get the mail() function to work (receiving an email sent via it internally or externally). Worse is that I'll get no errors and just a success in the console when trying it as well.

    I first found out that the sending of email via the php for me wasn't working when a phpbb3 board never sent out emails - doh!

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