I have a problem with DNS setup (I guess).
For now, I setup with success:
Domain for web (on ovh -> points to heroku server).
Outbound emails (mailgun service)
The only thing that left, is how to setup Inbound email DNS to another server (in my case,
that will be linuxpl.com but in fact it is not important I guess).
What DNS records should I set, to achieve that. So emails sended to test#domain.com,
will get to the last email server.
Thanks in advance for any help.
The solution was to add proper MX entry and wait:
In my case:
domain.com. 0 MX 10 s87.linuxpl.com.
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I bought a domain.
I pointed his name servers to:
ns1.digitalocean.com
ns2.digitalocean.com
I have added a CNAME record point to #
I want to send and receive emails using my Mac mail program.
I know that I should probably build a full mail server which is an awful thing to do.
Therefore, I have another server (not digitalocean) running on cPanel. In this cPanel I have a very powerful cPanel's mail server.
How can I point my digitalocean CNAME to the remote server where the cPanel is?
I hope it's clear enough.
In order to make your domain points to the digital ocean server, you will have to create A record that points to the IP of that server, same goes to any subdomain.
Regarding your mail server, you need to make mail.mydomain.com points to the IP of your cPanel server using A record not CName and also modifying other records like SPF/DKIM records.
For your local mail client you can get the configuration by logging into the cPanel user account and view the mail settings
Hello everyone in the community.
I have a headache that you can't imagine with this topic and I need your help.
I have a VPS server contracted at OVH, where I have access to the WHM and the Cpanel.
I currently have two hosted domains, I have created for each one their account in Cpanel, so each domain has its own configurations: Ftp, Mail etc...
The problem is that the mail that comes out of any of these domains are going directly into SPAM. I've read a lot on the internet, there's talk about configuring the PTR, configuring a reverse IP and so on.
The thing is that I am confused because I have two different domains, with all their different characteristics and the OVH server is one with one IP and already has its reverse IP.
So when I check the CPANEL of each account in the Email Deliverability option it tells me that there is a problem with the PTR.
The truth is that I have no idea how to change this for each domain, each domain appears in the DNS zone of the WHM and I can edit or add what I need but I see that everything is fine.
I don't know what to change or how to change it. I hope you can guide me. Thank you
Your cPanel/WHM server ip address has to have a valid PTR record which should matche your server's hostname. If the PTR doesn't match the hostname then that's a reason your emails go to SPAM. You should also check your server ip address to see if it's listed in any blacklist. You can check that on mxtoolbox.com for example. You also need to have valid DKIM, SPF and DMARC dns records for your domains.
I've got a weird setup with my emails that I need someones brain to look at. I've got it setup like this so that most of my emails are on one server (server1) and then 1 single account is setup on a second server hidden from the rest (server2)
Email Sent to user1#domain.me
MX record for domain.me = mail.domain.me
A record for mail.domain.me = server1 (11.11.11.11)
Email forwarding rule forwards all email sent to user1#domain.me to user#2.domain.me
MX record for 2.domain.me = mail2.domain.me
A record for mail2.domain.me = server2 (22.22.22.22) a cpanel server
Email hits my server now addressed to user1#2.domain.me
Domain forwarding rule forwards all email sent to #2.domain.me to #domain.me
This works great however my mail routing in cpanel is set to local, and therefore when sending emails out on server2 (22.22.22.22) to users#domain.me they're always delivered locally first and foremost
Is there any way around this? so that outgoing mail on this domain obey's DNS records (the mx records) and delivers it firstly to server1 (11.11.11.11) as if it was being sent from any other domain, gmail etc. Perhaps if the account isn't found locally then send on out to the web? Or perhaps there is a way to setup an alias somehow to let the local account receive mail for user1#2.domain.me
Thanks for your time & efforts looking into this
Henry
Check if your remote domains are listed in /etc/remotedomains and /etc/secondarymx. Note that if your second server has a dns server, it will try fetch the dns data locally first.
I have 2 servers using cpanel where each server acts as the other's backup and I don't have the issue you described.
Have searched everywhere, can't find answer.
I have the domain mydomain.com. The root and www records point to my main server, which runs my website.
I am now using a separate AWS ec2 instance to set up an email server for my domain. This is running on the subdomain mail.
My dns looks like this:
A # webserverip
A www webserverip
A mail ec2ip
To prevent my server from getting flagged for spam, I submitted the amazon reverse dns form here: https://aws.amazon.com/forms/ec2-email-limit-rdns-request
I gave them the ip of my ec2 mail server, and put "mail.mydomain.com" in the "Reverse DNS Record for EIP 1" box.
However, I keep receiving emails back from them saying:
When attempting to map the reverse DNS entry, we notice that this is failing because the PTR record doesn't match the A record for that domain.
We currently require the forward A record to match the PTR record for all reverse DNS entries.
I really don't understand what I am doing wrong. The "mail" subdomain has an A record pointing to my ec2 server ip. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
(I am using cloudflare for my dns if this makes any difference)
You can follow these steps to configure the DNS for your EC2 dedicated mail server on AWS:
STEPS
Add two A host records for pop.mydomain.com and
smtp.mydomain.com that point to your elastic IP and assign your
MX record to the smtp.mydomain.com host.
Add a CNAME record (not A host record) for mail.mydomain.com that points to the DNS entry assigned by AWS (e.g., ec2-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.REGION.compute.amazonaws.com).
Submit your rDNS request for smtp.mydomain.com mapping to your EIP.
Don't forget to add the SPF TXT record for your mail server. For example, v=spf1 mx a
Once you're done with this setup, you should have a proper mail server configuration in terms of DNS that would pass SMTP tests and avoids being flagged as spam.
I currently have a domain name which is set to point to Amazon Cloudfront's nameservers. I also have a dedicated server which uses WHM/cPanel that I want to use for all mail.
On Amazon:
The A record for the domain is set to point to the server IP
The MX record is set up as well
On Server:
I have an A record for "mail" that points to the server IP
However, when I log into cPanel webmail, I can send mail but cannot receive it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some type of routing issue I am assuming? When I send an email via Gmail to myemail#mydomain.com, it does not bounce back.
I fixed it by changing the MX record from mydomain.com. to mail.mydomain.com. and then having the A record for mail point to the server IP.