Thursday, August 13, 2015

Do I need an MX record for email forwarding?

I have my domain askerov.net registered with mydomain.com so that all incoming email is forwarded to my Gmail account using the email forwarding feature of mydomain.com. Note that I don't have Google Apps for this account, just regular email.



Things worked fine for a while except for the occasional bounce here and there, then a few days ago emails started bouncing all the time.




Here's what the configuration looks like in mydomain.com:



Nameservers:



ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com


MX record:




@   -->  mx.askerov.net  (priority 30)


NS records:



askerov.net  --> ns1.yourhostingaccount.com
askerov.net --> ns2.yourhostingaccount.com



CNAME records:



none


A records:



mx --> 66.96.142.50
mx --> 66.96.142.51
mx --> 66.96.142.52

* --> 66.96.163.135
askerov.net --> 66.96.163.135


The question is, if I am simply forwarding email to taskerov@gmail.com do I really need to have the MX record and the corresponding A records? I suspect that the MX stuff is causing my email delivery problems.



UPDATE



Email delivery is now working after I removed and re-added email forwarding. Not sure what effect that had on anything because the DNS settings remained unchanged as far as I can see. But at least I am now getting my email again!

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