Mail Forwarding

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  darnellbarkman · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 6:28 am

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  Hey I have mail forwarding and it conflicts with the name servers. Can I have the A record/ IP address of my site so that I can use it?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 27, 2013 at 3:41 pm

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  Hi there, if you wouldn’t mind explaining a little more what you’re trying to do, I’d be glad to try to help. WordPress.com sites don’t have a fixed IP address, since we use load balancing to distribute traffic among many servers.

  Did you want to map a custom domain to your site, but also use a third-party mail service? Here are instructions for add email to a site.

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  darnellbarkman · Member · Apr 1, 2013 at 5:04 am

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  I don’t know where to get my custom DSN records? And my domain provider said that they cant provide email forwarding if I need to use WordPress name servers. I’m a first timer and usually pretty good at this stuff but this is frustrating. The forwarding domain name works and is mapped but the email doesn’t.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 1, 2013 at 2:33 pm

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  I don’t know where to get my custom DSN records?

  You can set your custom DNS records under Store > Domains, and then clicking Edit DNS next to the domain for which you want to add records. You’ll get to this page:

  https://peacechurchphilippines.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains

  And my domain provider said that they cant provide email forwarding if I need to use WordPress name servers.

  The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s nameservers to the following values:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  However, if your registrar requires that you create A records for your email forwarding to work, please note that our IPs change over time. Because of this, your domain might stop working at some point in the future. If that happens, please get in touch with us to find out the most current IPs and then update your A records accordingly.

  If you still want to go ahead and map your domain using A records, please be sure to create at least two, pointing to two different IPs from the list below:

  72.233.2.58
  76.74.254.120
  74.200.244.59
  74.200.243.251
  76.74.254.123
  72.233.69.6

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  darnellbarkman · Member · Apr 14, 2013 at 5:32 am

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  Thanks for the help I’ll work through this and then give you some feedback.