Multi Domain Webmail, setting MX records

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#1

I have a single server that is acting as web and mail server. I would like to supply email for most of the web sites on my server.

I am hosting with Digital Ocean and managing DNS from their Control Panel. My question is how do I set the MX records for each sites email?

Can you point to any guides?

#2

There will be a single MX record only with IP address equal to Digital Ocean droplet IP.

MX record priority value won’t matter in case of single MX record.

#3

That was an amazingly fast response. So my root domain is domain root.com, what should the mx record be for this?

I then have other domains pointing to the same IP, otherdomain1.com, otherdomain2.com what should the mx records be for those?

#4

My bad!

You need to create a A record with value equal to droplet IP.

Then you can use that A record in any MX record. You can use same value for MX records on different domains.

#5

So if I make an A record of mail.domainroot.com in my DNS settings for domain root.com then I can use mail.domainroot.com as an MX record in all the other DNS settings for my other domains?

#6

Yep. As long as other domains are on same server.

#7

Hello @magichew,

I hope your query is resolved. I am closing this support topic for now.

Feel free to create a new support topic if you have any queries further. :slight_smile:

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