---
title: "Connect your domain to Google Workspace"
url: "https://inleed.com/helpcenter/connect-domain-google-workspace"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-11-06"
category: "Email"
type: "guide"
---

# Connect your domain to Google Workspace

With Google Workspace, Google receives the email for your domain. You change the domain’s MX record and SPF record so the email goes there.

## Before you start

- The domain must be added and verified in Google Workspace.
- If the domain’s DNS isn’t on your hosting, make the same change under **DNS Records** in the [client area](https://login.inleed.net).

## How to connect the domain

1. Log in to [DirectAdmin](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/log-in-to-directadmin) and open **E-mail Manager › MX Records**.

**Important:** All email goes to Google from now on. Addresses that exist only at Inleed stop receiving.

2. Choose the **Google Suite MX** template under **MX Template** and save.

3. Check that there is only one MX record, with priority 1 and this value `smtp.google.com`.

   Delete any other MX records.

4. Check that **Use this server to handle my e-mails** is unticked.

5. Add this value `include:_spf.google.com` to the domain’s SPF record.

   The steps are in [Add a DNS record](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-dns-record).

   Don’t create a new SPF record. The domain should have only one.

## How to know it worked

New email to the domain ends up at Google.

**Waiting time:** A changed MX record normally goes through within an hour. With Google’s template it can take up to 24 hours. Meanwhile, email can arrive at both Inleed and Google.

## If something doesn’t work

### Google can’t verify the domain

**Why:** The TXT record has the wrong name, old records are still there, or it hasn’t been long enough.

**What to do:** Name the TXT record `@` or the domain, not `google`. Keep only the current record. It can take up to an hour before Google sees it.

[Add a DNS record](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-dns-record)

## Good to know

- Google’s own guide: [Set up MX records for Google Workspace](https://support.google.com/a/answer/140034).

## Related guides

- [Keep your email with another provider](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/keep-email-with-another-provider)
- [DNS records for Inleed email](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-dns-records)