So you finally moved from some piece of junk web host to the bliss of WiredTree, eh?
Good for you!
Reconnecting Google Apps (or your Google mail) is super easy once you know how to do it, and the results are nearly instant. i.e. your mail will be working as soon as you plug in the right values. Actually, since you are editing the DNS settings, it can take time to propagate across the internet. Patience, my impatient friends. 
The Steps:
1. Log in to your Grove Admin Panel.
2. Click the “network/DNS” tab. Click “Edit a DNS Zone”.
3. Select your site from the drop-down menu.
4. Click “edit”
5. Delete junk records, and plug in the proper CNAME, A, and MX Records. Then update and you’re set!
Step 5 In Depth
First thing you’re going to want to do is delete all of the preset CNAME and MX Records by ticking the check box’s by all of them and clicking “modify zone file” at the bottom of the page. There is also one A record that you will want to delete with the host of “mail” and a preset IP Address. So after you do this you will have no CNAME records, or MX Records. And most likely only 4 preset A Records, the last one with a host of ‘*’.
Congrats on making it to this point. Now we’re going to add records.
CNAME RECORDS
Note: When I say “yoursite.com.” I mean for you to plug in your site name. lol. And yes, there is a “.” (period) after the .com.
Another note: Wired Tree made it a rather painful task to add all of these records. You have to add them one at a time and click “modify zone” at the bottom of the page after you add each one. A simple “Add Row” feature would be nice, Wired Tree.
Host:
mail.yoursite.com.
calendar.yoursite.com.
docs.yoursite.com.
sites.yoursite.com.
start.yoursite.com.
webmail.yoursite.com.
webpages.yoursite.com.
(Remember: if you copy, and paste these values from my site you need to change “yoursite.com.” to your actual website name.)
Points To:
(All of these values “points to”: ghs.google.com.)
TTL:
Can remain default of 5 Min.
MX RECORDS
Add all of these MX Record values with the proper Priority.
Address:
aspmx.l.google.com. (Priority 10)
aspmx2.googlemail.com. (Priority 30)
aspmx3.googlemail.com. (Priority 30)
aspmx4.googlemail.com. (Priority 30)
aspmx5.googlemail.com. (Priority 30)
alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. (Priority 20)
alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. (Priority 20)
Host:
The address for all of these values is yoursite.com. (Yes, with the “.” on the end.)
That should be it! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions. The DNS propagation for mine took probably 12 hours, so like I said, be patient.
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