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I have a website, which uses cname for its www.abc.com hosting. I am also using zoho mail service, so the root '@' mx record points to the zoho servers.

I want to use the cname for the "abc.com" domain. To do that, can I forward the URLs from abc.com to www.abc.com.

Would it break the mx records ?

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  • How are you forwarding? As long as you're not using a CNAME (forbidden by RFCs) it should be fine.
    – ceejayoz
    Sep 1, 2015 at 12:48
  • I am using the simple Domain forwarding feature provided by most of the domain hosting services. For example, godaddy.
    – Anjul Garg
    Sep 1, 2015 at 12:48
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    Then it'll be fine as long as your MX records remain intact.
    – ceejayoz
    Sep 1, 2015 at 13:14

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As ceejayoz stated in the comment, you can't actually have a CNAME for example.com like you can for www.example.com (which is actually a subdomain). So the A-record for example.com would have to point to a server that handles the redirect to example2.com.

As this is not related to the MX-record, it will have no impact on it. As a note for others, this would not be the case if your MX-record looks like: MX : example.com

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