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DNS settings to get email working

Posted on August 14, 2013

Hi everybody, I’m testing DigitalOcean, pretty satisfied with performance. I’ve been able to install ISP Config to handle my 10 websites if finally migrate all my sites to Digital Ocean from 1and1 but …

Which is the right configuration for MX records. I’ve tried with a previous domain global-communities.com but I’m not able to send neither receiving emails.

I configure MX record for global-communities.com but nslookup is telling me the following and it does not work.

global-communities.com mail exchanger = 0 global-communities.com.global-communities.com.

Anybody could help me?

Best regards and thank you in advance.



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@viktor.niniadis: DNS records are not related to your droplet itself. It usually takes a couple of hours until DNS propagates. <br> <br>Is it working now?

I’ ve solved it. <br>I tried on one site to change the mx record to: <br> MX 10 mail1.mydomain.com. <br>and it worked, <br>on my other site I changed it to: <br> MX 1 mydomain.com. <br> MX 5 mydomain.com. <br> MX 10 mydomain.com. <br> MX 1 mail.mydomain.com. <br> MX 5 mail.mydomain.com. <br> MX 10 mail.mydomain.com. <br>and it also worked! <br> <br>I don’t know which one is proper to use but both worked for me.

Edit your MX record and add a dot at the end of the value: <br> <br>Priority: 5 <br>Value/Hostname: global-communities.com.

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