How to set up email on my own domain?
March 10, 2011 4:38 AM Subscribe
I have my own domain (purchased through GoDaddy) hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I am trying to set up an email account, but keep getting MX errors.
I have my own domain (purchased through GoDaddy) hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I am trying to set up an email account, but every time I do it through the GoDaddy DomainManager, I get the following error:
"You have one or more email addresses whose MX records cannot be validated. Repeated attempts have been made over the past 7 days with no success. Please delete these email addresses or change the MX record information and retry validation."
I am not a complete Luddite, but web hosting and things of that nature are seemingly Greek to me. I guess I'm not even completely sure what I should be looking for, or what more information I shold be giving.
I have scoured the net and contacted the GoDaddy tech support to no avail.
If anybody has any experience setting up email using (GoDaddy/NearlyFreeSpeech combination, especially) it would be very appreciative.
I have my own domain (purchased through GoDaddy) hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I am trying to set up an email account, but every time I do it through the GoDaddy DomainManager, I get the following error:
"You have one or more email addresses whose MX records cannot be validated. Repeated attempts have been made over the past 7 days with no success. Please delete these email addresses or change the MX record information and retry validation."
I am not a complete Luddite, but web hosting and things of that nature are seemingly Greek to me. I guess I'm not even completely sure what I should be looking for, or what more information I shold be giving.
I have scoured the net and contacted the GoDaddy tech support to no avail.
If anybody has any experience setting up email using (GoDaddy/NearlyFreeSpeech combination, especially) it would be very appreciative.
The Google Apps help documents explain how to do it perfectly. Once you have the nameserver on the Godaddy domain set to the correct NFS nameservers (you need to add it to the NFS domains) it's just a matter of adding the MX records to the NFS DNS settings.
First, go to https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/[username]/dns/[domain] to find the nameservers you need to set in Godaddy. Then go "Add a DNS Resource Record", leave name blank, change type to MX and type "1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM." in the data box. Repeat for all the other Google Apps MX records:
This should be everything. MeMail me if you need any more help.
posted by turkeyphant at 5:05 AM on March 10, 2011
First, go to https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/[username]/dns/[domain] to find the nameservers you need to set in Godaddy. Then go "Add a DNS Resource Record", leave name blank, change type to MX and type "1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM." in the data box. Repeat for all the other Google Apps MX records:
1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.This should be everything. MeMail me if you need any more help.
posted by turkeyphant at 5:05 AM on March 10, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestions/help with trying Google Apps. I will give it a go and let you know!
posted by chrisph at 5:11 AM on March 10, 2011
posted by chrisph at 5:11 AM on March 10, 2011
I have this exact same setup.
Domain with GoDaddy, email with Google apps and recently I messed with web hosting at Nearly Free Speech.
This should be the help page you need.
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33353
I've used Google Apps successfully for some time now, I remember it not being a major issue to setup and I've had great success with it.
If you are having issues forwarding a domain to Nearly Free Speech (not sure if you have set this up), this is even simpler. Simply make a CNAME alias with www as the host and your Nearly Free Speech host location as the alias. In my case it was in the format of *****.nfshost.com.
posted by graxe at 8:13 AM on March 10, 2011
Domain with GoDaddy, email with Google apps and recently I messed with web hosting at Nearly Free Speech.
This should be the help page you need.
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33353
I've used Google Apps successfully for some time now, I remember it not being a major issue to setup and I've had great success with it.
If you are having issues forwarding a domain to Nearly Free Speech (not sure if you have set this up), this is even simpler. Simply make a CNAME alias with www as the host and your Nearly Free Speech host location as the alias. In my case it was in the format of *****.nfshost.com.
posted by graxe at 8:13 AM on March 10, 2011
Just to point out, all of the previous steps deal with GoDaddy's DNS manager and not the one from Nearly Free Speech.
posted by graxe at 8:14 AM on March 10, 2011
posted by graxe at 8:14 AM on March 10, 2011
Response by poster: [This is more of a Google Apps question.]
I have begun to get GoogleApps up and running, but it is asking me to verify my domain. This is all well and good, as I have total control over everything, but when I try to change the metadata of the index file, or upload the google verification file to my root directory, Google Apps looks for it at http://MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com/googlexxxxxxx.html.
Only problem is, my website only resolves when the "www." is appended to the front of the URL.
So, I guess my question is, how do I get "MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com" to go to the same place as "www.MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com"
posted by chrisph at 12:06 PM on March 10, 2011
I have begun to get GoogleApps up and running, but it is asking me to verify my domain. This is all well and good, as I have total control over everything, but when I try to change the metadata of the index file, or upload the google verification file to my root directory, Google Apps looks for it at http://MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com/googlexxxxxxx.html.
Only problem is, my website only resolves when the "www." is appended to the front of the URL.
So, I guess my question is, how do I get "MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com" to go to the same place as "www.MY_DOMAIN_NAME.com"
posted by chrisph at 12:06 PM on March 10, 2011
This issue is answered in the NFS FAQ's.
https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/support/faq?q=BareDomain
posted by BryanPayne at 4:09 PM on March 10, 2011
https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/support/faq?q=BareDomain
posted by BryanPayne at 4:09 PM on March 10, 2011
Response by poster: Thank you so much, not sure how I missed that.
Everyone has been such a tremendous help; thank you all.
posted by chrisph at 4:18 PM on March 10, 2011
Everyone has been such a tremendous help; thank you all.
posted by chrisph at 4:18 PM on March 10, 2011
Response by poster: Now that it's working, I have to fight the urge to create a vanity email account for my doggy.
Thanks again, all.
posted by chrisph at 4:24 PM on March 10, 2011
Thanks again, all.
posted by chrisph at 4:24 PM on March 10, 2011
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