How to use google apps in WordPress on Bluehost
Posted by Matteo Mattei / 12th January 2011
In these days I spent a lot of time looking for a solution of chainging the admin email address in Bluehost and I found a working solution! The problem is that Bluehost use Exim as mail server that is configured to require a valid and registered email address.
This is my scenario:
- Some domains with mx records pointed to google apps (I will take myprivatedomain.com as example).
- No mailbox created on Bluehost because I’ve already created them with google apps.
- myprivatedomain.com with info@myprivatedomain.com as admin email set in Settings -> General.
At this point, every email sent from any comments has this header:
user <user@boxXXX.bluehost.com>
I want to change it in order to have this address in my comments:
info <info@myprivatedomain.com>
These are the steps to follow:
- Log-in to Bluehost cpanel and go to Mail -> MX Entry. Here select your host (myprivatedomain.com), add these MX records as in the picture below and make sure to set Remote Mail Exchanger:
- 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
- 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
- 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
- 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
- 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
- Now the e-mail delivery should just works. However, if you want to change From email name, install the mail from plugin and configure it in this way:
- Sender Name -> YourName
- User Name -> info
- Domain Name -> myprivatedomain.com
That’s all! Now try to post a comment and look at your mailbox.
