How to Use Google Workspace for Your Domain’s Email

When you add your domain name to your HostM hosting account, the default configuration is such that email hosting is handled by our servers.

If, instead, you’d like to use Google Workspace (the premium version of Gmail formerly known as G Suite) for your domain’s email, you can use the following steps to do so:

Make sure that you’ve already added the domain to your HostM hosting account.
If you have not already done so, sign up for Google Workspace for your domain on their website. Google will provide you with instructions for verifying your domain by "adding a TXT record". Follow the next several steps below to do this.
Sign in to the Client Lounge on our website.
In the list of hosting accounts, select the cPanel button for the hosting account you wish to host your domain on.
Under the Domains heading, select Zone Editor.
Next to the domain you wish to modify, select Manage.
Click Add Record on the right.
Enter the following details:
- Name: example.com (replace with the actual domain)
  TTL: 300
  Type: TXT
  Record: (copy and paste per Google's instructions)
Click Save Record.
Leave the Zone Editor open (we’ll still need this), and switch over to the Google Workspace Admin Console and click Verify Domain. Google should display a confirmation message saying the domain ownership is now verified.
Google should then provide instructions for setting up an "MX record". Follow the next several steps below to do this.
Switch over to the Zone Editor in cPanel.
Just below the search box, select MX.
Click Add Record on the right.
Enter the following details:
- Name: example.com (replace with the actual domain)
  TTL: 300
  Type: MX
  Priority: 1
  Destination: smtp.google.com
Click Save Record.
Now delete any MX records whose value in the Name column is your domain name, but whose Destination does not contain google.com within it.
Just below the search box, select TXT.
Now look for a record whose value in the Name column is your domain name, and whose Record begins with v=spf1.
To the right of that record, select the Edit button.
In the Record field, right after the v=spf1, and without deleting anything, insert include:_spf.google.com.
Ensure that there is a space character both before and after the include:_spf.google.com.
Select the Save Record button to the right.
Select the HostM logo in the upper-left corner of your cPanel to go back to the main page.
Under the Email heading, select Email Routing.
Select your domain from the drop-down menu.
Wait for the word "Loading..." to disappear.
Select Remote Mail Exchanger, then click Change.

Your domain name is now pointing at Google Workspace for email purposes. Please note that it may take up to several hours for your changes to be recognized by ISPs worldwide, including your internet connection provider.