Questions tagged [mx-record]
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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I am not receiving email for my domain (google cloud)
I am not receiving emails for my domain that is being hosted by Google Cloud. The emails bounce back. I set up the MX records as shown on the image. What am I doing wrong?
DNS name --> @....
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Google MX tool fails server check, but MX records are set up and working
I host my domain on Gandi and have my nameservers pointed to my Digital Ocean hosting. In my DNS settings on Digital Ocean I have the (old style) MX records set up for Google Mail as such:
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Email setup when transitioning from iPage webhosting to Google Cloud Compute [closed]
What is the mechanism/way to send/receive mail when using Google Cloud Platform to host my website? Thanks!
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Using mail.example.com for the MX DNS record
I was wondering why I couldn't get the mailing on my domain ("example.com" below) to work.
The hosting provider states that I have to use s18.myexampleprovider.com (having IP 123.123.123.123)...
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Specifying an IPv6 MX record via djbdns or djbdns-fefe?
I'm trying to set up IPv6 MX records in my djbdns environment. I also am experimenting with djbdns-fefe for this same purpose.
According to the djbnds-fefe documentation, "... tinydns-edit won't ...
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Migrate webserver without affecting mailserver
Currently I have a website example.com that's hosted on some old service provider. I'm moving it to a different service provider I use.
I need the mail to be accessible via Outlook using the existing ...
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Two different MX servers for when email doesn't exist in the highest priority MX
I have a client who has a domain and wants to use two email servers:
Server #1: It would have the email atendimento@
Server #2: It would have the email comercial@
If I point the highest priority MX ...
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Setup self-hosted mail server and route MX record from domain
I want to move away from my current email provider which also hosts my domain and setup a private mail server on my local machine which runs 24/7.
Let's say I have 4 registered email addresses user1@...
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How to specify MX RR using djbdns?
I want one of the domains I manage to have null MX records: i.e., MX RR.
I'm trying to figure out how to specify MX RR under djbdns, but my searches haven't yielded any information about how to do ...
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Is it okay to have multiple A records for one MX record?
I'm curious how mail servers behave when a hostname is balanced between two machines.
For example, when given these records:
example.com MX 10 mailer.example.com
mailer.example.com A 123.123.123.1
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Need to Add SPF Record
We had the warning about spf containing to many lookups. Deleted
txt ourdomainname.com v=spf1 ip4:50.87.253.89 a mx include:websitewelcome.com ~all as we are no longer on bluehost which the ip ...
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Email proxy architecture
I'm trying to figure out how email proxies generally work. I want to present the way I see the architecture, would be glad if anyone could explain which of my assumptions is flawed and what am I ...
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SPF Limits and SPF Merging
I am using Zoho Mail, AWS SES, GMAIL SMTP, Cloudflare email route and Yahoo SMTP. they all have there own SPF record. i saw on Google the only 1 SPF should be added in hostname and maximum 10 SPF ...
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How to add multiple MX record from different Email server
I am using 4 mail services. Let say my domain is example.com
Amazon SES for Transactional Email - (Only Sending not receiving - SMTP)
Zoho Mail for workmail (Webmail) - (Users email, both sending and ...
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One domain with several mx records, allowing some users to use Google Workspace and others to use roundcube from the server
All setup and MX records have been configured for the domain example.com, which I added to my Google Workspace account. I also own the website example2.com. These two domains belong to two separate ...
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Correct Certificate for domain and mailserver
I m trying to setup a correct certificate for my organizations mailserver. For obscurity lets name it webmail.mydomain.com, from which i want to send email in the name of my domain.com. Also the ...
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Gmail account with custom domain can send emails to Outlook accounts but cannot receive emails from them
I set up a custom domain autoinfo.cl at Gmail with Route53 AWS. I followed all the instructions described in Google Workspace to set MX records in DNS Manager.
Gmail account works fine to send and ...
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setting up a mail server for my domain
Learning about how mailing works in general and I have the following question:
If I own the domain bigmoon.com and I want to have a mail address that looks like bob@bigmoon.com, as I understand it I ...
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Postfix - some mails not sent to particular domain and syslog tagging issue
I have a problem with e-mails sent to a particular domain (alice.it).
Usually the mail is corrected sent and in my postfix log I have this:
06104180AF: to=<**********@alice.it>, relay=mx.tim.it[...
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Can the bulk execution of "dig domain mx" on 5000 domains be considered an attack to the network?
I have a database containing a lot of invalid emails.
I want to remove all the emails whose domain does not have mx record.
So after I extracted the domain part I wrote a script to bulk check this for ...
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MX record pointing to different subdomains
Is it possible to have multiple email MX records for subdomains ?
eg:
domain: xyz.com - MX - Heartinternet emails
o365.xyz.com - MX - Office 365
gsuit.xyz.com - MX - Google
In this case do we have to ...
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Do I need to setup a mx record for an internal mail server in an isolated network
I am wondering if I need to setup a DNS Server as well as a MX Record if I plan to host an email server such as hMailServer for an internal network.
The network itself will be isolated from the ...
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Will I receive emails sent while MX records are not synced with the DNS backend?
I apparently wasn't receiving any emails for a month because my email's MX records weren't synced up with Porkbun's DNS backend. I only noticed it today and fixed it via Porkbun support.
Will I ...
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Configuring subdomain MX records
I moved my domain to Google (not using GSuite). I use it only for private mails. I added an alias me@mydomain.com and it works as expected. But I wanted to create another one me@info.mydomain.com. ...
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MX-Record: IP or FQDN?
I have not found any reference to this in the RFCs and hope to find a reliable answer here.
Domain mail.example.com runs a mail server. I want to set the MX record for the domain awesomeexample.com ...
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Where do I set up an MX record for my Google domain so it points to my email server?
I'm new to networking and servers, so I may be way off track. I have a Digital Ocean server with postfix configured on it. I also have a domain through Google Domains. I want to make it so my mail ...
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Can Postfix relay/forward to multiple MX servers?
diagram here I can't post images yet so I've included a diagram link
I have both Fastmail and Zoho configured to receive emails for user@example.com. However, for redundancy I want to put Postfix in ...
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Mails always gets delivered to second MX record
I have setup two MX records for mydomain.tld:
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server1.tld.
mailbackup
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server2.tld.
(Name is just a label, nothing DNS related.) When I try to send test mails ...
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sendmail 8.14.7 never trying secondary mx
I've discovered that my sendmail configuration does not always try a
secondary MX host if the primary MX does not answer. Sometimes it does,
more often it doesn't.
I think my questions are, 1) how ...
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Does two MX resgisters solve this?
My domains is hosted at HostGator
My AD is linked to the Office 365
Every account I create in my AD need an Office 365 licence to work, ans this is OK.
When I create an account directly on the ...
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MX record pointing to a dynamic IP
I'd like to host simple-login on my home Synology server. For this, I have to register an MX record on a domain that points my IP address.
However, my internet provider does not guarantee a fixed IP, ...
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AWS SES subdomain email
Can I add CNAME and MX records to a subdomain hosted outside Amazon to work with AWS SES?
I have bill@example.com and jill@example.com.
I would like to leave bill as is while transferring jill over ...
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Mailgun : Sending a message from a subdomain to main domain gets denied
I've set up a subdomain in mailgun to send transactional emails from an application (mq.domain_name). This seems to work fine, as long as a receipt's domain is other than the main domain we own, for ...
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Receive e-mail on AWS SES from one, but only one, e-mail address
I have an app for which e-mails sent to a specific address, x@example.com, should be received by SES for analysis of e-mail attachment and storage. However, I would like to handle the other E-mail ...
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MX record with only one dot, possible?
Lets say I have the following DNS active for domain example.com (leaving out ttl)
example.com MX 0 .
Does it mean that the MX record does point to example.com? That server with name example.com will ...
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How to combine multiple SPF domains, one with an mx mechanism?
I combined 3 SPF records using the standard protocol, but got a null error after combining them.
Individual records:
v=spf1 include:spf.sendinblue.com mx ~all
v=spf1 include:dc-aa8e722993._spfm....
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Confused about SPF Records
I thought that ?all in SPF should not be used.
Then I examinated SPF records of some local email provider companies and I found this:
v=spf1 mx ip4:77.75.78.0/23 ip4:77.75.76.0/23 ip6:2a02:598::/32 ?...
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Postfix and Subdomains
I set up Postfix on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine. However, I am not sure where I have to use the subdomain and where the domain. Let us call them mail.example.com and example.com respectively.
The system ...
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Activation of Gmail for secondary domain fails though MX records are added in Google Cloud Platform
Gmail for the main domain is activated
I added a secondary domain. In https://admin.google.com/ the status is: varified + Gmail activation failed.
When I start activation on the last step I see that ...
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can I have A record and MX record for the same hostname?
Can I have an A record and a MX record for the same hostname?
For example
example.com A 192.0.2.42
example.com MX mail.anothersite.example.
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I'm trying to conciliate a gmail email forward ...
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Mails not received when using Cloudflare DNS and Cpanel server [closed]
I have the following Cloudflare DNS config:
The mail and ftp are hosted on the Cpanel server. The website is hosted on a separate server, on a VPS. You can see in this image that the mail A record is ...
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How to verify if an email was received and read
I accidentally sent an email to a wrong email address. The owner told me that he didn't receive my email because there were no email servers configured for that domain. However when I did MX lookup, I ...
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Configure Postfix to prevent improper mail forwarding/duplication
I'm trying to reconfigure my Postfix mail server to stop it from improperly relaying mail to addresses that are listed as recipients but don't have my server's domain.
Say my mail server's domain is ...
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Base64 encoded MX records in TXT records
A lot of domains hosted by Namecheap contain strange DNS TXT records that appear to be base64 encoded, that when decoded look like a weird kind of MX record - having the structure of both a priority ...
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How to submission server of an email (SMTP)? [closed]
I will brief you about the situation I'm in, what issue I am facing and what I have tried.
I have set up a web app using flask, where users can send automated emails (not email campaigns) to a list of ...
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Are MX record names important? [closed]
When creating MX records for a domain, is it important what they are called?
I want to manage email through a remote service and have added the appropriate destination and priority. The service that ...
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Debian 10 MX hostname issue
I am facing an issue where every single site like intodns, dnsstuff, mx toolbox is reporting that i have 2 issues.
Namely:
Reverse DNS does not contain the hostname
Reverse DNS does not match SMTP ...
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dnsmasq - detect mx-host changes without service restart
I have a mailserver on ubuntu with postfix and dnsmasq. It has a bunch of mx-host records on the /etc/dnsmasq.conf config file. I need to dynamically update (add/remove) these mx-host entries (and the ...
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Is it possible to receive email for aliases of multiple domains on a single KVM?
Tl dr; Is it possible to receive email for aliases of multiple domains on a single KVM?
I had a Digital Ocean server with multiple websites hosted on it, and needed email aliases of more than one of ...
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Setting up an MX record for a send-only server
I have set up a send-only server and I have tested it using mail-tester.com.
I get a 7/10, and I experience a majority of outlook/msn/hotmail inboxes sending my email to the junk folder. I do know ...
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