Trouble with MX Records. Using a external email hosting.

December 15, 2015 3.4k

DNS Email DigitalOcean Debian

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tmacka

Hi,

So am trying to setup email's for my Droplet via my other shared hosting service.

I am also using Cloudflare CDN.

In Cloudflare DNS I have:

A: domain.com.au points to 123.456.789.11 (droplet IP)
A: mail points to 212.xxx.xxx.xx (external hosting IP for mail server)
CNAME: www is an alias of domain.com.au
MX: domain.com.au mail handled by mail.domain.com.au

Still nothing. Just to confirm, because my domain name server is pointing to Cloudflare. Is this all that is needed or do I need to also add the MX records to Digital Ocean Droplet.

Any help, thanks.

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2 Answers

jarland MOD January 15, 2016

Hi there!

It seems like you're on the right path here. I see the MX record for your domain pointing to another server. Are you receiving mail now? DNS propagation may have played a role in the reason why you did not at first.

If I can be of any further assistance, please be sure to let me know.

Kind Regards,
Jarland
Platform Support Specialist

tmacka January 15, 2016

Hi,

Yes, got it working. Think that was the issue can't remember now haha.

thiagocagna May 8, 2017

Hi Guys! I am with the same problem here..everything is the same as above...but I am not reciving emails..

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