By andreas
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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How (or why) is it not possible? What did you try doing up to this point? <br> <br>I’ve never tried it; but couldn’t this be done by creating A records for the subdomains instead of CNAMEs?
You misunderstood. I want to use several different mx records for the sub-domains of a domain. For example: <br> <br>father MX 10 fathers.mail-server.com. <br> <br>That the MX of father.example.com ponits to fathers.mail-server.com. <br> <br>I can’t set the hostname at the beginning of the record.
What if you separate out the subdomains from the zone file (and create separate zone files for each subdomain)?
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