adding email to custom dns records.

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 2, 2013 at 8:50 am

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  do you need to add MX, a, CNAME and TXT or can you just add mx records? i am using a hosting company called redstation and cannot get my email to work.
  i have added mail MX and webmail and they both validate
  please can someone help?
  thanks

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  kardotim · Member · Sep 3, 2013 at 7:53 am

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  It seems you’ve set up a e-mail forwarding. Is this working for you?

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 3, 2013 at 11:19 am

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  thansk for the response. not really, i might have to resort to zohomail, but ideally i woudl liek help with what the mx records etc for redstation would be. they wont/can’t tell me.

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  kardotim · Member · Sep 3, 2013 at 11:51 am

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  MX records needs to be requested at your e-mail provider, Redstation in this case. Once you have the MX records I can set these to your domain.

  Thank you.

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 8:25 pm

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  thanks, but redstation won’t/can’t give me the custom email dns
  its ridiculous but i am stuck.

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 9:02 pm

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  actually i may have got the dns settings now. can you confirm if i need to add TXT, webmail and CNAME or will just MX work?
  thanks

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  kraftbj · Staff · Sep 17, 2013 at 9:39 pm

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  Howdy,

  The MX record may be all that you need; what information did they provide and I’d be happy to confirm.

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 9:46 pm

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  Thanks
  Just
  mx10 mail.teega.co.uk
  So I added it a few hours ago, plus I copied the example of TXT and cname buy couldn’t get webmail or mx20 to add

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  kraftbj · Staff · Sep 18, 2013 at 2:05 pm

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  Hi,

  In that case, we do need a bit more information from your mail provider, specifically either a CNAME or A record we can use with mail.teega.co.uk.

  A short primer: With domain names, whatever server is nameserver controls all subdomains, or in other words, since ns1/ns2/ns3.wordpress.com are the nameservers for teega.co.uk, then we, on the WordPress servers, need to define what any subdomains (like mail.teega.co.uk) mean and where they point to.

  With just the MX record, we’re telling mail to go to mail.teega.co.uk, but haven’t defined what/where exactly is mail.teega.co.uk.

  The mail provider will likely provide a A record (or an IP address) that we can add in the format of
  A mail 123.168.123.168 to the custom DNS.

  Thanks!

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:12 pm

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  hi
  thanks i think i understand what you are saying.
  it is this 80.243.183.2
  cname is just listed as teega.co.uk.

  thanks in advance for your help.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:41 pm

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  I’ve added the A record for mail to that IP address. If that’s the right address, e-mail should begin to work shortly.

  Cheers!

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm

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  hi. many thansk, now all it says in the edit dns is
  MX 10 mx.000webhost.com.

  no mention of a record?

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  kraftbj · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:52 pm

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  Hi,

  The DNS records for teega.co.uk can be found via the Store->Domains link in your site’s dashboard (direct link: https://teegaconsultingdefence.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains&action=dnsedit&domain=teega.co.uk )

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  societywebsite · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:54 pm

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  apologies, i was lookign at a different blog!! cheers i will repeat back here on progress. thank you so much for this superb help.