Hi everybody,

I have a question about using Google Apps for handling emails. I don't want to set up a whole entire mail system on my server, so I decided to use Google Apps. The ownership of my domain is approved, and now I'm trying to change the MX records in the zone file of my domain. But I think I'm doing wrong, it doesn't work.

I want to use mail.mydomain.com as a adress to the mail server for POP, SMTP and IMAP. My zone file looks like this:

$TTL 86400
@   IN SOA ns1.first-ns.de. postmaster.robot.first-ns.de. (
    2011011700   ; serial
    14400        ; refresh
    1800         ; retry
    604800       ; expire
    86400 )      ; minimum

@                        IN NS      robotns3.second-ns.com.
@                        IN NS      robotns2.second-ns.de.
@                        IN NS      ns1.first-ns.de.

@                        IN A       111.111.111.111
localhost                IN A       127.0.0.1
www                      IN A       111.111.111.111
ftp                      IN CNAME   www
loopback                 IN CNAME   localhost
mail                     IN CNAME   @
relay                    IN CNAME   www
@                        IN MX 10   ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@                        IN MX 10   ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@                        IN MX 10   ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@                        IN MX 10   ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@                        IN MX 10   ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

I hope someone can figure out, what's wrong with this configuration. When I start a ping on mail.mydomain.org I get an answer from 111.111.111.111 and not from the google server ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

thx, tux