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Which Domain to use for the Google Cloud Console Organization Setup if Working with Different Domains
I have some questions about setting up the GCC Organization please.
A new Google Cloud Console account was created when setting up this domain in the Organization section of an existing GCC account ...
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How to change host and retain email MX records
I am changing servers for a client, but keeping the same domain. How do I ensure I don’t break email?
Original DNS
Host Name, Type, TTL, Data
example.com, A, 1 hour, xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
example.com, MX, 1 ...
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Adding MX record
I would want to achieve the following: I have acquired a domain name, and I would like to add a website and a mail server for this domain. I have: 1 Domain name, 1 private Ubuntu server with IP, 1 ...
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Difference in Google MX record IPs and upper-lower case hostnames
Two different domains, both using Google Workspace.
Why are there different IPs for the same hostname, i.e. ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM and aspmx.l.google.com?
Does this have to do with the upper/lower case ...
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How to change A record in DNS and keep email working when MX record point to the domain itself
For my client, I'm migrating domain to point to a new website server. In order to do that, I'm changing A records to point to new server IP. After such change, client has lost possibility to send e-...
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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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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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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 [email protected], as I understand it I ...
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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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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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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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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 [email protected] and [email protected].
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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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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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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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.
Context
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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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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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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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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DNS MX/SPF/DMARC records without actuall emails on domain
I created website for someone, but also someone (I guess some SEO guy) told this person that I made big mistake because there are missing DNS records on domain (mx, SPF, dmarc). Now I need to "...
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Hosting a website, domain on godaddy server at digitalocean
I have inherited a client whose domain was bought and registered at godaddy. They having a working email setup through that registration which gives them an [email protected] email I can see an ...
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MX record for domain and subdomain
Is it possible to setup a MX record for example.com and a.example.com on the same DNS server in the same zone and is this a good practice?
Some like this:
example.com. IN A 10.24.233.214
a....
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Setting up MX records for two servers with same hostname
In my DNS records, I have 5 MX records with my hostname being the main domain name of my site example.com. These 5 records are aspmx.google.com, alt1.aspmx.google.com, alt2.aspmx.google.com, alt3....
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Pointing domain to DigitalOcean App Platoform without changing MX records
I am using the newly created App Platform from Digital Ocean. I am trying to point my domain to the server that I created within Digital Ocean. I am told I need to add a CNAME to my domain (since DO ...
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Configuring DNS for new web host while keeping old mail server
I would very much appreciate your advice on the proper way to configure our DNS to move our website only from our current all-in-one provider to Bluehost.
Our DNS is managed at Network Solutions. We ...
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DNS records: Remote A record for website and local server for mail server
First of all. I'm sorry if my question is irrelevant, bacuse i'm new on DNS Records.
I have 2 Server, will call them #Server-1 and #Server-2.
For. eg. i have a web site with domain name www.example....
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Multiple MX Records handling
I have an app hosted in AWS, my mail service is not on AWS, I'm using a hosting in hostgator due to pricing since I need 500+ simple mail accounts.
My DNS points to my email service and it works ...
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separate email server for the subdomain
I am having some serious problems setting up the proper DNS addresses for my domain.
My DNS records are like
mail A ip1 (shared hosting provider)
mail A ip2 (...
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mx record mail server coming back as something else so cert isn't correct
I'm adding a certificate to my mail server and everything works fine, except I am getting an error when using www.checktls.com to make sure everything is running correctly.
This is the error from ...
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Wrong propagation of MX record
We have set a MX record in our DNS records as follows:
Type: MX
TTL: 1800
Name: @
Priority: 10
Hostname: webmail.ourdomain.fr
However, when we check the propagation by for example https://www....
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Combine SPF record with and without rules/mechnisms
I'm very new to DNS world, and now I'm supposed to add an SFP record like v=spf1 mx include:_spf.blah.com ~all to an existing SPF record on a zone.
existing TXT looks like this :
v=spf1 include:_spf....
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How to connect to mail.hotmail.com via port 25 from DNS as instructed by Outlook
If you read https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/pm/troubleshooting.aspx, it says
Confirm that your DNS is set up correctly
Try connecting to mail.hotmail.com via port 25. If you are ...
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MX record in a reverse zone
I am taking a DNS course on Linux Academy.
In one of the lab, they define a reverse zone. In this zone they add MXs records.
Does it make sense to have MX record defined in a reverse zone?
Details:
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Do I need an SSL certificate for a .DEV TLD on an MX record?
Do I need an SSL certificate for mail exchange (MX) for a .DEV TLD? Couldn't find this online so I'm asking here. I know that it enforces HTTPS and HSTS.
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Reject email and force the sender to switch MX records
I am setting up a mail server solution.
I want to apply the scenario like this:
The domain used is configured with 2 MX records (one with priority 1 - my server and one with 10 - a third party STMP ...
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Point A and MX records to different servers
The more I read the more confused I get, so please advise...
I bought a godaddy domain.
I have 2 servers, and I want the following...
Justhost (Email)
Digital Ocean (Web server for app)
How can I ...
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Why would email deliver normally when MX Lookup test returns "DNS Record not found"? [closed]
Background: CentOS 8, Postfix, Dovecot, Digital Ocean droplet.
My mail server can send and receive emails without a problem.
My DNS records include an A, AAAA and MX record for my mail server.
A ...
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Confused on DNS for G Suite + third party web host
I've been digging for an answer to my question, but my searches keep turning up edge cases, which surely this is not. As is often the case, Google's own support either over-answers or doesn't provide ...
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Use MX records to forward all mail to specific server
I have two domains, lets call them example.com and example.de
I need to have all emails sent to an (any) example.de address being forwarded to the example.com email server. Is it enough to place an ...
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DNS: mx record with only AAAA, no A record
My mx record for example.com points to mail.example.com
I have only set an AAAA record for mail.example.com, but no A record. I don't want to expose my IPv4, only the IPv6.
I can receive e-mail from ...
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CNAME domain to a subdomain with no MX reocrds
Should email to [email protected] work?
test.com CNAME something.else.com
else.com MX 1 <google mx>
I think there are some references out there requiring RFC1912 not having CNAME records along ...
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What DNS Changes should I make?
I'm moving a website to a new server. But I only want to change where the website is pointing to. So basically example.com and www.example.com. I'm afraid if I change the A record for @, mail will ...
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Can't use domain name to access mail server from outside LAN
Thanks for the assistance with my last post, it was able to work itself out nicely. Now I have another issue...
I have got an A DNS record setup pointing mail.melia.tech to my public IP address
I ...
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mail server mx record only shows dns ip
I am trying to setup BIND9 (Master and Slave DNS Servers), which I have done, and it is working as it should be (I believe). I can dig the domain name I am using and IPs and extract all the neccessary ...