For customers who want to connect their hosting account to G Suite mail, we have prepared this tutorial.

Editing an MX record doesn’t tell you anything, and you associate SPF with sunscreen cream? Or aren’t quite sure how to do it? In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll walk you through connecting G Suite with Smarthost.

The first thing you should do is log in to cPanel. You can do this by typing into your browser window: customer-domain.eu/cpanel (where customer-domain is the address of your website).

Edit DNS zone

After logging into cPanel, go to Zone Editor, then to “Manage” next to the domain of interest.

We then edit the MX record according to google’s guidelines, and add the missing ones, as in the example below.

Name/host/alias	TTL (Time to Live)* value.	Record type	Priority	Value/response/destination
customer-domain.eu.	3600	MX	1	ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
customer-domain.eu.	3600	MX	5	ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
customer-domain.eu.	3600	MX	5	ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
customer-domain.eu.	3600	MX	10	ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
customer-domain.eu.	3600	MX	10	ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

After adding all the records, we return back to the hosting account management panel.

SPF – Sender Policy Framework

We explained its principle of operation in the entry: SPF and DKIM -protection against spam. Now we need to attach the record required by G Suite which we will do by going to Email Deliverability.

When we get to the feature we are interested in, we click the “manage” button next to the selected domain, go to the SPF section and click “customize”, where at the bottom of the settings there is an Include List (INCLUDE) option – we click “Add A New ‘+include’ Item”. Then add an entry as in the screenshot below and click “Install a customized SPF record”.

Email Routing

This is the final step to connect our accounts. In cPanel, we go to “Email Routing” and then switch to remote mode as shown in the following screenshot.