GM Support To have your email hosted at Greatmail, point your domain’s MX record to: smtp.greatmail.com In a DNS manager, there are several parameters for the MX record: Host or Name: The domain name for the MX record. Class: IN for Internet. Type: MX for Mail Exchanger. TTL: “Time to Live” specifies how long the record will take to update in seconds. … Read more
In order to host your domain’s email at Greatmail, you must set the MX record in your domain’s DNS to point to our mail servers. You also need to set up two TXT records in your DNS for SPF and DKIM signing to ensure you are fully authenticated sending and receiving messages using our service. … Read more
MX records generally take effect within a couple of hours. Depending on the refresh rate of ISPs globally, however, it may take up to 24 hours for changes to completely take effect across the internet and for all mail addressed to your domain to be routed through the updated mail exchanger.
To test connectivity to the server via a specific port, use the telnet command from a command prompt on your computer. To telnet to the server, greatmail.com through port 2500: Go to Start/Run. Type cmd and click OK. In the command window that appears, type: telnet greatmail.com 2500 Hit enter You should see something like: 220 … Read more
Generally, changing the DNS nameservers takes longer to propagate than editing individual records within the DNS. Editing or adding a TXT or an MX record might take effect in lookups within several minutes. If you are editing DNS nameservers, you should allow 24 to 72 hours for the updated information to take effect across the … Read more
A CNAME record is a canonical name record. CNAME records are used to alias one name to another hostname. For example, in the DNS for greatmail.com, the following CNAME record creates an alias zap.greatmail.com that refers to the hostname www.foo.com: zap IN CNAME www.foo.com. This CNAME record would redirect ‘zap.greatmail.com’ to ‘www.foo.com’.
An A record is an address record. A records map domain name servers or hostnames to numeric IP addresses. In the following example, the address record mail.greatmail.com is mapped to the IP address 69.28.204.71: mail.greatmail.com. A IN 208.70.245.70
An MX record is a mail exchanger record, a DNS resource record that routes mail for a domain name. A domain name may have multiple MX records. In the following example, the MX records for the domain greatmail.com are mail.greatmail.com and mx.greatmail.com: greatmail.com. MX IN mail.greatmail.com. [Preference = 10] greatmail.com. MX IN mx.greatmail.com. [Preference = 20] … Read more
No, MX records must not point to an IP address. MX records should point to address records (A or AAAA), domains, or hostnames.
No, MX records must not point to CNAME records. In the following example, the specified MX record for greatmail.com is invalid because it points to a CNAME : greatmail.com.com MX mail.greatmail.com mail.greatmail.com CNAME mail2.greatmail.com An MX record must point to an address record (A or AAAA). The following MX and A records are correct: greatmail.com.com MX mail.greatmail.com mail.greatmail.com. IN A 208.70.245.70