It can take up to 48 hours for your Google MX records to propagate. Until the new records are active, emails are directed to your previous email provider. Take the following steps to avoid … When someone sends you an email, the sender's computer looks up the MX records for your email domain, like @your-company.com, to figure out where to deliver it. After you sign up for Google … About A records An A or Address record (also known as a host record) links a domain to an IP address. When using Google Cloud services, you can modify your domain's A records to enable … Don't change your domain A records if you're using non-Google services with your domain because this will make those services unavailable. Before changing your A records, you should already be … Step 2: Set up MX records to direct your mail to Google servers When you're ready to go live with Gmail, redirect your domain's MX records to Google servers. Do this after creating user accounts …