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The MX record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a recipient's domain.

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How to fix the DNS config for a 550 invalid DNS MX or A/AAAA error

Context: I'm using a server hosted by strato to manage my email, which is called xxxxxxxx.stratoserver.net I've reserved my own domain yyyy.com and manage its DNS at joker I'm using anti-spam ...
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Why is Gmail sending mail to wrong location (not respecting mx record)?

I have a domain (alarinsights.com) setup with email hosted by Office365. Everything works fine, except when I try to send myself email from gmail, I get a message bounced back saying no such user. ...
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Mx records point to gmail; postfix mail sent direct from server marked as spam by gmail, yahoo

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server with postfix installed. However, I have set up the domain MX records to point to a Google apps' configuration, as per Google's instructions. All works fine using email ...
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Is it Okay for an MX Record to Differ from Incoming/Outgoing Mail Server Address?

I'm sure this is a beginner question, but I could use some help. I run a VPS and am familiarizing myself with DNS settings and my mailing set up. I began when one email address consistently ended up ...
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Transferring domain to new host, but keeping email on old host

I'm helping out a friend manage his website. Said friend has a domain, website.com, which I am transferring from his old host (OLD) to his new host (NEW), but OLD does not provide email services (or, ...
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Configure postfix to accept mail from external MX

I'm trying to switch my postfix configuration from accepting mail directly, to pointing my MX record to a different host and then only accepting mail coming in from that MX host. So far, that's only ...
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Can I update my zonefile's MX record to use an SES endpoint without disturbing my EC2 instance's ability to send mail?

I have a zonefile with an MX record and an A record that both point to the same server. This server receives orders and then sends e-mail using sendmail to a pre-configured e-mail address. I want to ...
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Is it possible to change MX records without downtime/returning/dropping messages?

We're migrating e-mail hosting from SERVER-A (on HOSTING_CO-A) to SERVER-B (on HOSTING_CO-B). SERVER-A will continue to be functional until the transition is complete and HOSTING_CO-A has their own ...
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MX record format without mail.domain.com

Let us say I have a domain example.com that points to IP 192.0.2.4, hence in the DNS I would see: example.com A 192.0.2.4 www.example.com CNAME example.com Now, most MX records appear to be set ...
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SPF Records and Too many DNS lookups

It's been suggested to me that I configure SPF records for my domain and I have done so. I use gsuite for email and have mx records properly configured to send mail via gsuite. My web app sends emails ...
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DNS CNAME Resolution - which IP would be returned?

I saw this example of a CNAME record, but I don‘t know what IP would be returned and couldn‘t find an answer. I‘m looking for the IP of pc2.an.example.com and the mail server of an.example.com Zone ...
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If I'm using Netlify DNS servers, is there a way I can get emails to forward to a Gmail address? (for a host on Google domains) [closed]

I'm trying to use Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/) for deployment to a custom domain which has worked. But in order to do that, I've switched from Google's DNS servers (the domain is registered on ...
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Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner - G Suite

I ran our domain through MXToolbox, and this error comes up several times: "Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner". We use G Suite for our email and Cloudflare for DNS. Can I fix these warnings from ...
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Hosting domain on AWS with hostgator email mx/a record changes

I am hosting my email with a remote provider (HostGator), and need to alter my MX and A records so as to point incoming email to this host. What I have done so far is as follows in my Route53 ...
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DNS registration, basedomain and CNAME records not wanting MX records broken [duplicate]

Good day, I currently have an existing domain for a large company. We are using a service to manage our DNS. We had an existing domain with many subdomains, with a legacy website. Recently we ...
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Postfix reverse MX check

Is there any way to configure reverse MX check for Postfix to check incoming emails? I just noticed that most of our spam which are still coming true are sent (or seems to be sent) from properly ...
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Is it bad practice to declare MX from differing networks?

We're using a 3rd-party service provider to send transactional email. I recently noticed increased failure rates for a given receiving domain. The sends fail with the error "498 No MX for example.com"...
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Can I have a DNS MX record for outgoing and a different MX record for incoming?

I'm configuring an email service for my domain. I plan on using Zoho Mail for free because I can use a business domain professional email. I want to use Zoho Mail to send out messages, but I have ...
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Forward all emails sent to AWS subdomain to one single account

I have many email addresses, one for each user, on a subdomain like so: [email protected]. I'd like to receive all of these emails into one Inbox for me to use, e.g. combineduploads@...
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How do I set up an MX record to route mail to my CentOS 7 Postfix server?

I'm trying to set up mail forwarding from my CentOS Postfix mail server to my gmail account and I want to be sure I'm creating the MX records properly before troubleshooting my PostFix configuration. ...
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How can I setup free email forwarding using FreeNom and ImproveMX?

I have a paid domain at FreeNom. It refers to a website hosted by GitHub. I want emails send to this domain to be forwarded to my personal email account. ImproveMX claims to facilitate this. FreeNom ...
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Using MX records for providing mail gateway redundancy

my customer has some Exchange servers and they are using a secure mail gateway from a known vendor for their spam mails. Unfortunately this mail gateway software has developed by SMB-minded people, so ...
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DMARC report: SPF fails with mx-domain as spf-domain in auth_result

I have setup a mail server with several postoffices/domains. DKIM, SPF and DMARC are setup for every domain. For the mailserver domain, which is a postoffice as well, I get weird DMARC reports, where ...
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Can i Set Two Different server MX Record for one Domain [duplicate]

Suddently, Today one of my client asked me to setup google mail services for his business, currently he is using zoho mail and approx 5-6 user email working on zoho, now he purchased google mail ...
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Problems migrating GoDaddy record sets to AWS Route 53

I've migrated a domain name from GoDaddy to AWS's Route 53. The problem I'm having is that emails are not being delivered to the email exchange. Everything else seems to be working just fine. I've ...
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Same domain but two different companies hosting separate email addresses?

Is it possible for my company to have G suite host one email address while another company hosts the other addresses. e.g [email protected] hosted by G Suite and [email protected] hosted by ...
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How do I use gmail mailbox with custom domain? [closed]

So I have a mydomain.com registered in my name with godaddy. There's also Gmail which we all love. I would like to set up [email protected] to be my email. Godaddy has an email solution, ...
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autodiscover security warning

Unfortunately i am no expert in the field of DNS, exchange and stuff so i am struggling with a problem. So please forgive me if it is obvious for someone else. I tried to research myself but i just ...
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Moving MX records to new nameservers

I have a customer whom I will be hosting a website for, let's say it is example.com. I'm still pretty new at this, thus the worry about what is probably something fairly simple: Right now example....
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Make MX records point to two servers (gmail and hostgator server) [duplicate]

My website is hosted on Hostgator and some of users use gmail mail service and some other use POP3 service, so I'm not sure if it's possible to make MX records to point to both these servers (gmail ...
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Are mail redirect not reliable?

I have now twice created a setup on two different platforms which appear to fail - sometimes. The emails just appear to vanish. I have a domain name and configured a MX record on the DNS to send ...
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How does Outlook cope with IMAP server change (MX)

What happens with an Outlook local inbox when there happens to be an IMAP server change (MX change) and the new IMAP server/mailbox is blank? Will Outlook retain already downloaded messages in it's ...
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Point email to Host A, website to Host B (without host-provided MX record)

I'm migrating a website from Host A to Host B, but keeping email on Host A. One complication is that Host A doesn't provide a conventional MX record; they just use the naked domain (which I understand ...
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Permanent SPF error: Void lookup limit of 2 exceeded

I'm trying to fix my GoDaddy SPF settings. I'm getting this error: "SPF record lookup and validation for: http://www.scoutbox.us|www.scoutbox.us Permanent SPF error: Void lookup limit of 2 exceeded ...
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Google Cloud / GSuite DNS Record or Zone issue

To start: I have read through the Google Cloud DNS documentation. I have visited the "Creating MX record in Google cloud DNS" on this site. I believe I may have done something wrong when setting up ...
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Issue Creating Two MX Records with Different Priority Using Google Domains

How do I add another MX record to Google Domains that uses a lower priority? When I try to add the lower priority MX record it gives me this error, "Record already in use". I followed Google's ...
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MX and CNAME records not updating

I have transferred a domain from GoDaddy to Google Domains. About 12 hours ago I changed the name servers to point to Google Domains name servers. At the same time I added the following MX and ...
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MX record imported in Route53 from Godaddy with bad format

As per the title, I am importing the zone files from Godaddy to Route53 and I noticed a weird thing. I don't know if is the right format for Route53, but the MX records in Godaddy looks like that ...
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MX Lookup failed for outgoing email

We use GMS (Gordano) mail server v3793 on a Win2008 box. Since 4 days ago, outgoing mail has failed for all external domains, with POST log entries similar to the following: DNS gmail.com - No ...
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Receiving and sending email using Amazon SES

I have a domain configured to send mails using Amazon SES. Both sending and receiving using normal SMTP server are working just fine. I have MX record setup as feedback-smtp.us-west-2.amazonses.com (...
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Postfix multiple instance only default work

Let me explain what I'm doing and what I want to reach from this postfix multiple instances I have domain for example "example1.com" and "mail.example1.com" for mail server and has proper DNS MX ...
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Why does mail need to have its own special DNS record type?

I'm just learning about DNS records, and it seems that MX records are redundant. My understanding of MX records is as such: If I ask my DNS about an email address, then my DNS will look at a MX ...
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Create MX Record for Subdomain

I have two Zimbra mail servers. One of them serve for stuff and the other one serve for student. So I want to create use two different mail template like [email protected] and student_mail@student....
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Use my home server dns for my domain [closed]

I purchased a domain name from a hosting website. I do not want to use their dns management (A records, CNAME etc). I want to configure DNS on my home server. How should I use my configured DNS on ...
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Pointing MX at mail server where domain isn't hosted?

I am working on a system where we have Moodle software on one domain (I'll call it moodlehost.com) which is making a LOGIN connection to a SMTP server on another domain (I'll call it smtphost.com). I ...
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I got "SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch". And some mail servers rejected my emails

I have searched for related information about my problems for a few months but I could not solve my problem by myself. My domain is thaihurbcollection.com. I added PTR record, changed MX record to ...
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New email domain - SMTP 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay

I have just added MX record for mail.example.com. Previously there was MX record for example.com. we have default email address-domain @example.com - and it is working fine for send and receive. we ...
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after changing nameserver email not coming, Got domain from godaddy, site hosted on hostgator and gmail service from Google suite

We have developed a new site with external developer, and they have hosted website on hostgator.com to host they have given names servers, in Godaddy manage DNS I have selected custom name server and ...
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Conditional Forwarding; MX record not resolving, Exchange in the cloud

Long of the short, my company was recently bought out. We set up an SSL tunnel between us and our parent company for ease of access and yesterday I setup a Conditional Forward in our DNS so we can ...
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DNS MX records on doman nameservers differ

I have a domain... enertron.com.ar This domains is hosted on a cPanel server. To point the domain to that server I use two nameservers: ns13.hostmar.com ns14.hostmar.com Just as the hosting ...
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