Gmail hosted email : solution to notifications and passwords

Here is my solution for having my domain email hosted with gmail. (not the [email protected] account, but the [email protected] email)
I saw a ton of people having problems with this. Now, I not only get notifications when someone signs up, but the people who sign up for my blog get their passwords mailed to them! I found this solution by trying many combination’s of changing php files to SMTP and email plugins over the past 3 days.

1. make sure your MX records is with google. you can check this at
https://www.mxtoolbox.com/
put in your domain name and hit the MX Lookup button. mine came up. with Host Name: aspmx.l.google.com
2. Disable ALL smtp addons. I recommend disabling all addons.
3. In the WP Dashboard go to Settings> General tab. Make sure your email address is NOT your hosted email. you need to use one that is NOT with your gmail hosted account. I am using a free @yahoo.com address.
4. Go to your Users > Your Profile tab. in your contact info put in your Hosted email address.
5. Go to the email account that is in the Settings> General tab and set up email forwarding to your hosted account. I set up a brand new yahoo account just for WP so I could forward it to my hosted email.

Now I receive notifications when someone subscribes to my blog. ?? AND the subscribers are getting passwords to log-in! Subscribe2 plug-in is also working with these settings.

*note. I also had to set the wp-mail.php and class-phpmailer.php back to the default files that came from the 2.7v download. If you didnt change these files it shouldn’t be a problem. But I did a bunch of changes to these files as suggested in other posts. So I just uploaded those two original files.
I know its not a ‘clean’ fix. But it works, for me at least. Its an easy try that doesn’t or shouldn’t involve messing with any files or code. My biggest problem/mistake was I was ‘testing’ to [email protected] and trying to get that to work. Once I realized that I cant send to [email protected] but I could send to EVERY other [email protected] I was golden. Give it a go and let me know if this works for someone else with a hosted Gmail account. Nothing else worked for me. If anyone else has a cleaner solution, let me know too.