Question
How should MX records look like for personal mail server
- Posted on January 18, 2021
Asked by Nikolay Bogoychev
Hey,
I have a droplet on digital ocean hosting my own web server and now I’m trying to add a mail service with some combination of dovecot and postfix. I’m running into two issues:
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I am confused how to setup my MX DNS records. I tried to follow this guide, but I didn’t quite understand: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-e-mail-server-with-dovecot At the moment, I have the following. URL:: example.com MX: 2 records: mail.example.com mail handled by example.com example.com mail handled by mail.example.com Pretty sure this is wrong, but what should it be? Just the second one?
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Online test services report Reverse DNS is not a valid Hostname As far as I can tell, I have done everything right in order to have Reverse DNS lookup. My
hostnameand/etc/hostsare set toexample.comand my droplet is namedexample.comThe output of the host command:
% host example.com
example.com has address IPV4ADDR
example.com has IPv6 address IPV6ADDR
example.com mail is handled by 50 mail.example.com.
% host IPV4ADDR
reverse_ip_address_here_.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer example.com.
Cheers,
Nick
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Hi there,
What I could suggest is the following:
After that give it a couple of hours for the DNS cache to clear over the Globe and it should be ok.
As a side note, from the host command output that you’ve shared, I was able to check your domain name and the setup looks correct at the moment I believe.
Regards, Bobby