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MX records for subdomains

Posted July 20, 2013 9.9k views
Hello, i'm providing subdomains of my domains to my family members an a few friends. I want that they are able to choose the mail-server they like, so I have to set the MX records for the subdomains to their mail-servers. But this is not possible at DO DNS. Would you think about an integration of that feature please? Respectfully Andreas Pfohl
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pablo July 20, 2013
How (or why) is it not possible? What did you try doing up to this point?

I've never tried it; but couldn't this be done by creating A records for the subdomains instead of CNAMEs?
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andreas July 20, 2013
You misunderstood. I want to use several different mx records for the sub-domains of a domain. For example:

father MX 10 fathers.mail-server.com.

That the MX of father.example.com ponits to fathers.mail-server.com.

I can't set the hostname at the beginning of the record.
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pablo July 20, 2013
What if you separate out the subdomains from the zone file (and create separate zone files for each subdomain)?
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pablo July 20, 2013
What platform are you using for your mail servers? Have you checked to see if it supports domain aliases (like Google Apps: What is a domain alias?)?
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