kasmith

it was only after adding these mx records that my domain forwarding worked on my mail accounts that were originally set up with google domains. I cannot get anyone at customer service to acknowledge their existence, however. It's very strange. 

After my MX records were changed to mailgun.org I was able to get my original google domain email address to work as in alias in regular gmail google using the following instructions for app passwords. (It seems there is a bug in google that is making the app passwords work differently than on their guidance page.) 

follow these instructions:

3. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/

5. In the search window at the top of screen enter "app passwords"

6. Let google verify your identity

7. Where it says "app name" in the gray box enter your gmail address (email@gmail.com)

8. copy the code that is generated

9. open gmail settings (settings wheel on upper right, "see all settings", accounts and import)

10. click "Add Another Email Address"

11. in the Yellow box type the domain email address you want to use ex. name@yourdomain.com

and make sure the Treat as alias box is checked

12. Press Next Step and it the following box change the SMTP Server to smtp.gmail.com

13. Enter your gmail address exactly as entered in your app password (step 7)

14. Enter the code copied (step 8)

15. Press Add Account

16. You should receive a Verification Email from google. Follow the link and use your domain email as a gmail alias.

does anyone have a password for their domain email anymore to be able to set it up with gmail? I was able to do this with google app passwords in the past but it doesn't seem to work any more. 

Hi YES!! This! Why don't they put this on their help guides it would solve so many problems!

So after my domains transferred from google domains, I was having a hell of a time getting it set up to forward emails and thought I had to set up google workspace to manage these 3 personal email addresses.

Seems like this is their workaround but customer service didn't tell me about it - I figured it out by looking at the DNS settings on a domain I own that I don't use with any emails and I entered all of them into my DNS settings and now my old emails forward to gmail again... now if anyone knows how to make them an SMTP alias on in accounts in gmail... that would make up for all the time I have wasted trying to figure this out. I feel really burned by google domains for sending me to squarespace with no support.