Question
How do I add the email records from Namecheap?
- Posted on January 25, 2015
Asked by voicuvaleriu
Hey,
I have a private email address with Namecheap. After creating it, this message appears: “This domain name is using third party DNS, please contact your DNS provider to add the following records:”. I think this is what I have to add:
Hostname | Record Type | Priority | Valuea @ | MX | 10 | mx1.privateemail.com @ | MX | 10 | mx2.privateemail.com mail | CNAME | | privateemail.com @ | TXT | | v=spf1 include:spf.privateemail.com ~all
So my question is, how do I add these records? My final goal is to forward my email to gmail, but I think I have to resolve this issue first.
Thank you -Val
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You’ve probably figured this out already but I figured I’d post just in case anyone else is searching for this like I was,
mx1.privateemail.com, in ‘Enter Priority’ enter10mx2.privateemail.comin the Hostname box.mail. In 'Enter Hostname’, enter ‘privatemail.com’@. In ‘Enter Text’, enterv=spf1 include:spf.privateemail.com ~all.You must check at namecheap to see the up to date information to enter here. I got my information from this page
Here’s support page from NameCheap -
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/1340/93/open-xchange-records-for-domains-with-third-party-dns
On namecheap look for the domain name in your control panel, edit the domain and add the mx records as mentioned abode.
If your domain name is not managed by namecheap, you need to modify dns records on the current register company.