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I'm having some trouble understanding domain and mx records.
If I direct the domain name from the register to where I am hosting a site. And on the Register I direct the MX records to another server that takes care of the email will that work?
Yes, that's exactly what MX records are for.
Let's say, your domain is whatever.net.
You create A records for domains that you want to point to your website, i.e. www.whatever.net, whatever.net. They will point to the IP of your web server.
Then you set an MX record that points to a domain, typically something like mail.whatever.net.
You must then set up an A record for mail.whatever.net to point to the IP of your email server.
Note that your mail domain does not have to be a subdomain of your domain. It can also be something completely different. For instance many small businesses set their MX to mail.google.com and sign up with google to handle all of their emails.
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I'm trying to setup incoming email for my Amazon EC2 linux box. Namecheap Private Email records for domains with third-party DNS
My domain's DNS is managed through NameCheap. They have a private email hosting service.
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email.aspx
Will this enable me to have a webmail interface where I can send / receive emails from my domain?
I checked your domain and it does not have any MX Records setup. See screenshot below. That is the reason you are not receiving the emails.
Check this steps to set up MX Records for AWS Route 53 for your domain
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6149697?hl=en
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I will begin with saying that I am a complete novice in the field of web hosting. So I have this one domain, which was pointing to a blogger page and was configured with Google Apps for mail handling. Now, recently I purchased hosting and installed Wordpress.
I had to change the default name servers and was asked to remove the A records of ghs.google.com. Suddenly my mail stopped working, and I could only get it to work when I reverted the old default nameservers. I must mention that my mail.mydomain.com earlier opened gmail, now started opening my hosts landing page. Although the CNAME record points to Google.
What am I doing wrong? Btw, it's Linux hosting.
PS: The Google MX records are already added in the domains dns settings.
Email routing is based on MX (mail exchange) records in your DNS. You'll need to add Google's MX records to whatever service is hosting your DNS. The support for the host should be able to help you find where this goes.
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My company uses Google Apps service that works with our own domain.
I wonder how Google mail server can receive emails to my_account#my_company?
Can an email reach to the mail server - in this case Google server - which differs from recipient address's domain - my_company?
As I know, my company even has our own server and public IP address which is registered on DNS.
It looks like you're missing some points on how the whole email system works.
In very basic terms, when someone sends an email to your_account#your_company.com, a DNS request is made to find out the mailserver responsible for your_company.com email handling. You can check this by yourself by querying your DNS for the MX records asigned to your domain.
So, if your company is using Google Apps to handle the company accounts, your_domain.com must have google mail servers on the MX records for everything to work properly.
This is "how the email can reach my company servers" part. Around that, there's a whole bunch of other configurations that make the thing work.
It goes to Google server first and then is just forwarded to your domain.
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I have set my MX record with Google
Mail, but google only provide 50 email
address for free is there any
possibility to create 50 email with
google and more with my own Web
hosting provider email server?
Unfortunately not. There's no way for MX records for a domain to distinguish between different addresses. However, if it's possible to create subdomain email addresses, you might be able to get away with creating a catch-all address in Google Apps and then setting filters to forward mail appropriately.
However, I think your best solution would really be to start paying for Google Apps if you're using it so extensively. Definitely worth it.
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I'm trying to figure out a solution to my problem which is as follows: There are two email addresses on my domain that I want to continue hosting at a provider but for all the other email addresses I want to host them on my own servers. Logically, I configure the MX records for pointing to the provider of my email hosting but in this case its like I want to maintain the current MX records for these two email addresses and then configure a new one for all others. Is there a way to do something like "check the destination email addresses and if its one of the following then reroute this mail to this mx record" or am I out of luck? I would imagine this problem has been addressed before.
I'm pretty sure this won't work via the MX records because the lookup is of the domain not the whole email address. You could however setup the new server to forward those accounts to a different email address.
Alternatively depending on your server make it act as a proxy for the old addresses, set a rule to open a new connection to the other server and deliver as if nothing has changed?