I'd love for someone to correct me if I'm wrong, but CNAME's and A records are the only things relevant to GAE, right?
If you're messing with MX records, then (assuming what your trying to do is use gmail on "Google Apps for my domain"), this is probably what you want: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=69003&topic=14584 But it's off-topic on this mailing list, further questions about email setup belong in this discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/apps-discuss On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:25 AM, ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got the exact same problem too. I would appreciate if anyone can > give any solution for this. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I registered my domain with Namecheap. Switching my app to GAE, I > > moved by nameservers to the default Namecheap ones. Then I set up a > > CNAME record so that the host name '@' refers to 'ghs.google.com'. > > This worked great. Then, I wanted my email to work, so I went to set > > up my MX records. I followed Google's instructions, and despite > > waiting well over 48 hours, email did not work. > > > > I emailed Namecheap support and they told me that it is impossible to > > have a CNAME record for '@' and to have MX records for '@'. This is > > unacceptable. > > > > They said the ONLY thing to do was create a framed redirect from '@' > > to the 'www' hostname, and then set up the CNAME on 'www' and MX > > records on '@'. I do NOT want to access my site at > http://www.example.com > > and certainly do not want a framed redirect (what is this, 1999?). > > > > Is there anyway to do this? Surely others have wanted to set up a GAE > > app and Google email on the same domain... > > > > If it is a problem with namecheap, I would transfer instantly to > > godaddy or whomever this works properly with. > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
