I’m in a slightly weird situation right now, and I don’t have sufficient knowledge to sort this myself without truly understand what I’m doing.

Yesterday, I’ve registered a domain (.com) and ordered a VPS, attached to that domain. Chances are I may receive mail on my .com address to confirm the domain. Unfortunately, that domain is nothing, but an empty domain.

Currently, there’s no mailserver that fetches my mail. Because I don’t have a mailserver available, I (temporarily) want to use Gmail. I prefer to add it to my existing, personal address, but I’m okay with creating a new account as well. I just want to read possible incoming mails.

I’ve tried to set MX records to

What do I need to do to get mail to a Gmail address?

PS. I’m aware of Google, NSA, etc.

PPS. I just want to receive mail. I don’t care if I can’t send via my domain.

PPS. Detailed steps would be greatly appreciated, I’m a noob.