Thursday, December 20, 2018

domain name system - DNS MX vs CNAME entries

I have recently bought a domain for setting up a website.



The website is hosted on OpenShift. Since OpenShift doesn't use its own nameservers, I've edited the DNS records on the domain registrar's website such that the CNAME entries point to the OpenShift URL (https://appname-domain.rhcloud.com).



The domain registrar provides only two email addresses as of now, so I tried hosting it on Pawnmail, for which I need to update my MX records.



While updating the DNS entry, I'd have to point the MX for mysite.com to Pawnmail's record. However, this is not allowed to happen since there is already a CNAME for mysite.com. Any workarounds? I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I'm very new to web-management, so excuse me if I'm missing out on anything. Is there any other way I can achieve what I'm trying to do?




Any help would be much appreciated!

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