Email Question

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  crossfitcapeann · Member · Sep 10, 2010 at 12:39 am

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  I’ve got my domain name mapped to my wordpress blog site but now my email won’t work. I’ve been told I need to contact wordpress and have them point the domain MX Records / Mail Servers to the following:
  mx00.1and1.com
  mx01.1and1.com

  Is this something I can do on my own?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 10, 2010 at 12:29 pm

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  WordPress does not have mail servers. It doesn’t offer email associated with domains. But there IS a workaround:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/#using-google-apps-for-domains

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  designsimply · Member · Sep 10, 2010 at 1:57 pm

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  @crossfitcapeann You can setup your custom MX records with the DNS editor:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/

  It looks like your records are not formatted quite right. They should be:

  MX [priority] [hostname]

  So your examples from above should be:

  MX 10 00.1and1.com.
  MX 20 01.1and1.com.

  Note: I assigned the priorities randomly, it doesn’t matter as much what they are as long as they are there. The determine which host to try first.