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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I finally figured it out: put in your fully qualified subdomain as a new domain in your DNS settings, as if you were setting up an entirely new domain. (subdomain.domain.com). You can then set the MX records from there.
+1 for adding sub-domain MX records. We had a news letter setup when we migrated it does not work now, because it was configured for a sub-domain. You inbond emails are handled by gmail. Any detailed tutorials on how to get this working (work-around) ?
Found out that you can actually set the subdomain mx record via the api, it also gets displayed correctly in the zone file but not in the interface itself.