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mxroute – Email hosting for sysadmins<\/p>\n
Well, that’s not really true, though you do need some webhosting and DNS knowledge in order to set it up. When you perform a search on email providers on reddit, mxroute<\/a> and migadu<\/a> comes up quite frequently. I believe mxroute could be more popular as the owner Jarland Donnell is very serious with his IP health. I went with mxroute cos they have a lifetime plan for email hosting and I have 15 domains across 4 different dns registrars. It’s really a pain in the ass to setup forwarding on all the domains just so that people can email me properly.<\/p>\n Protip: mxroute’s lifetime plans are typically heavily discounted on Black Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From Jarland’s interaction online at lowendtalk (he used to run lowendtalk), you can tell that he’s a no-nonsense kind of person. He’s entirely dedicated to serving his customers who wants to send email, and mxroute is pretty strict on retaining their customers. In fact if you see historic posts, people are actually saying that if you send a support ticket twice with the same issue without referring to the online help provided, they’ll just drop you as a customer and refund you. How anyone wants to do their business is up to them, but honestly the documentation needs some serious work.<\/p>\n Hence I have decided to do this post to help myself and anyone who is having issues configuring mxroute. Do note that this is just of my own trial and error and reading the documentation and trying to piece everything together, I’m at no way an expert at configuring this.<\/p>\n I signed up for the lifetime plan:<\/p>\n – The first system is mxroute’s client area at https:\/\/accounts.mxroute.com\/<\/a> with the email you provided in #1 during signup, You would use mxroute’s client area to check your invoices, send tickets, etc. Email account creation, adding domains\/subdomains, checking DKIM, configuring SSL for these domains are done at the email server that you have been assigned.<\/li>\n Q. I see all the DNS entries have been created in the DA Control Panel, does this mean that mxroute will be running my DNS?<\/p>\n A. I have no idea. What I assume is that mxroute uses the DA Control Panel as an interface to manage the email domains, email accounts and the SSL cert generation, so I still used my current DNS host for my domain name, and merely added the 2 MX records, SPF, DKIM and a CNAME to customise the mail server to my own.<\/p>\n Q. So if I want to have “email.mydomain.com” as my mail server, instead of the “mail.mydomain.com” that has been created automatically in the DA Control Panel, what should I do?<\/p>\n Repeat the above if you need “webmail.mydomain.com” as well, but this time you can generate the SSL cert for both “email.mydomain.com” and “webmail.mydomain.com”<\/p>\n Bonus email issue that’s non-mxroute related: A. Most TXT records can have up to 255 characters. For TXT records that include more than 255 characters, DNS adds multiple strings together in a single record.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re using a 2048-bit DKIM\u00a0key, you can\u2019t enter it as a single text string in a DNS record with\u00a0a 255-character limit. Instead, take these steps:<\/p>\n Split the key characters into multiple text strings. https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/11613097<\/a><\/p>\n Hopefully this clears up some technical questions and you can move on from here.<\/p>\n TL;DR: Use mxroute if you’re willing to spend time on it yourself for the best value email hosting plan, use migadu if you need help.<\/p>\n Referenced:<\/p>\n https:\/\/mxroutedocs.com\/<\/a> mxroute – Email hosting for sysadmins Well, that’s not really true, though you do need some webhosting and DNS knowledge in order to set it up. When you perform a search on email providers on reddit, mxroute and migadu comes up quite frequently. 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\n– Two DNS MX records that you have been assigned,
\n– SPF record details,
\n– DKIM setup information,
\n– IMAP\/SMTP server that you have been assigned.To be clear, you now have access to two systems:<\/p>\n
\n– The second system is the email server you have been assigned via the DA Control Panel.<\/p>\n\n
\nQ. Errr the DKIM that’s being generated by Google is too long to fit into one TXT entry. What should I do?<\/p>\n
\nPut each string inside quotes.
\nEnter the strings one after another in the TXT record Value field at your domain provider.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/mxroutehelp.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/custom-webmail-pop-imap-smtp-domain\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/mxroutedocs.com\/troubleshooting\/hotmailspam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"