MX Record assistance

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  socialbo · Member · Apr 10, 2013 at 8:37 pm

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  I need assistance with pointing my mx records for (email visible only to moderators and staff). I have an email account with domain.com and they also host my domain name. Please help me set up my MX records. I have my dns pointing to wordpress.

  This is the only mx record that domain.com gave to me: mx.domain.com Please help me set this up.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 10, 2013 at 9:41 pm

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  That doesn’t look right at all. The MX record should be in this structure:

  MX <pref> <host>.

  Like:

  MX 10 mail1.example.com.

  I recommend asking them again for the complete MX records. There may be a CNAME or A record too, but not always.

  Once you have the correct records, you can add them following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/add-other-email/