Domain name registered on AWS and email server on Digital Ocean

November 16, 2014 3.7k views
mazzy
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Hi folks. I have bought a domain on AWS by using their service Route 53. I’d like to create an email server here on Digital Ocean. The MX record has to be created on AWS, hasn’t it? I have found a tutorial on digital ocean to build a iredmail server on a ubuntu droplet. It says “If you have a domain name you want to use, name your droplet as that domain name, which will become its hostname and reverse DNS record.” this means that if I call the droplet like my domain, all the request will be addressed to domain name server on AWS?

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  • bofh November 16, 2014

    No. Name your droplet something.yourdomain.com. Then make an A record 

    something IN A droplet's.ip.address

    and then an mx record

    yourdomain.com. IN MX something

    You can use whatever name you like as ‘something’ but be consistent.

  • mazzy November 16, 2014

    in that way the emails registered on the email server will be myemail@mydomain.com or myemail@something.mydomain.com?

    I need that emails have to be registered with mydomain.com

  • kamaln7 MOD November 16, 2014

    The MX record is set on yourdomain.com. so your email addresses will be @yourdomain.com, not @something.yourdomain.com.

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etel June 3, 2016

This question was answered by @bofh:

No. Name your droplet something.yourdomain.com. Then make an A record

something IN A droplet’s.ip.address

and then an mx record

yourdomain.com. IN MX something

You can use whatever name you like as ‘something’ but be consistent.

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ryanpq MOD June 7, 2016

This question was answered by @bofh:

No. Name your droplet something.yourdomain.com. Then make an A record

something IN A droplet’s.ip.address

and then an mx record

yourdomain.com. IN MX something

You can use whatever name you like as ‘something’ but be consistent.

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