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Chowski
Chowski

Reputation: 33

How to have email & website hosted by different hosts (Weebly/GoDaddy)

I've currently got my website & domain hosted by GoDaddy. I've put together a replacement site at Weebly. I'd like to keep GoDaddy as our email host for the time being.

When I update my A records to point to Weebly for the website (see below), the email starts playing up. The MX record has not been changed.

Currently, we can send emails but no emails are being received.

Weebly support have said all I have to do is update my A record, and everything should be fine. GoDaddy support weren't helpful at all, but I understand that, as why would they support the process of me migrating of to another company.

I'm confused though, because the MX records have to be a hostname, rather than IP, but then the MX records use the A records to find the mail server...

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Cameron.

Type Name Value TTL
A @ 199.34.228.75 600 seconds

A admin 199.34.228.75 600 seconds

CNAME autoconfig @ 1 Hour

CNAME autoconfig.admin @ 1 Hour

CNAME autodiscover @ 1 Hour

CNAME autodiscover.admin @ 1 Hour

CNAME cpanel @ 1 Hour

CNAME ftp @ 1 Hour

CNAME mail @ 1 Hour

CNAME webdisk @ 1 Hour

CNAME webdisk.admin @ 1 Hour

CNAME webmail @ 1 Hour

CNAME whm @ 1 Hour

CNAME www @ 1 Hour

CNAME www.admin @ 1 Hour

CNAME _domainconnect _domainconnect.gd.domaincontrol.com 1 Hour

MX @ mail.amsvet.com.au (Priority: 0) 1 Hour

TXT @ v=spf1 a mx ptr include:secureserver.net ~all 1 Hour

TXT admin v=spf1 a mx ptr include:secureserver.net ~all 1 Hour

SRV _autodiscover._tcp.@ 0 0 443 cpanelemaildiscovery.cpanel.net 1 Hour

Upvotes: 0

Views: 708

Answers (1)

Jeffrey Kastner
Jeffrey Kastner

Reputation: 676

The problem is, most likely, that you are pointing the A Record for mail.amsvet.com.au to @ (your root domain) BUT your MX Record is pointed to mail.amsvet.com.au

In other words, you are pointing the mail A Record to the Root amsvet.com.au but the Root is now pointed to Weebly's IP. So, when emails are being delivered to your email address they are being sent to the Weebly server because that's where your mail.amsvet.com.au is pointed.

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It looks like you have changed this back to use GoDaddy's Hosting for your root A Record and it's pointed to 23.229.154.129 (if I have gotten the domain correctly, from what you have posted)

Instead of pointing the mail.amsvet.com.au A Record to @ change the @ to 23.229.154.129 (And of course point your root back to Weebly). That should resolve it.

Recap, change:

A @ 23.229.154.129

to

A @ 199.34.228.75

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Change:

A mail @

to:

A mail 23.229.154.129

Upvotes: 1

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