MX record for subdomains?

Posted on October 4, 2014

Is there any way with DigitalOcean DNS to create an MX record for a subdomain?

Our email is handled by Gmail, so we have the standard MX records:

MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. MX 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

However, we also process incoming email through our application via Mandrill (http://mandrill.com/). This requires a separate subdomain (e.g. inbound.mydomain.com), for which we’d need subdomain-specific MX records.

There doesn’t seem to be a way to specify a subdomain name on the DigitalOcean DNS control panel. Am I mistaken, or am I going to have to use a separate managed DNS provider (e.g. http://dnsmadeeasy.com or AWS Route53)?

Thanks, Anthony

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kabiri

July 28, 2016

Hey guys, I have the same problem and I’m using CloudFlare as DNS server, and it does not allow me to add the subdomain as a new domain in CloudFlare.

+1 for this!

I ended up here because I need to add MX records for Mailgun. I am saddened because this feature, although it doesn’t seem on the surface like it would be difficult to add, doesn’t exist, and there doesn’t appear to be any desire to add it. Your DNS manager is beautiful, and would be my preferred choice, over GoDaddy, ZoneEdit, Google, Gandi, or whatever. I humbly ask that this be place on your todo list.

Thanks,

Jay