Although I guess another solution is just to forward mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com/. Not ideal, but it works.
Erik On Jun 19, 1:48 pm, Erik Pukinskis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > This doesn't really address the problem. I'm trying to > gethttp://sproutrobot.com > pointed at heroku, but if add aCNAMEpointing sproutrobot.com at > proxy.heroku.com, that means I can't add aMXrecord. Which means I > can't have an email on my domain. > > As people are discussing, maybe there are some DNS services that let > you mix CNAMEs andMXrecords, but that's advised against in the SMTP > protocol. And more importantly some mail servers will apparently try > to send mail to the server pointed to by theCNAMErecord. I'm > guessing that some of Ron's @thumbfight.com email is going to > proxy.heroku.com and getting returned. > Seehttp://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/content/dns/dont_mix_mx_and_cname_r... > > Maybe if proxy.heroku.com at least had aMXrecords for gmail that > would help. Everyone would be locked into gmail, but it's better than > nothing. > > Best, > Erik > > On May 8, 6:36 pm, Adam Wiggins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Another fix for this is to alias your domain to point to > > proxy.heroku.com instead of heroku.com. i.e.: > > > $ host mydomain.com > > mydomain.com is an alias for proxy.heroku.com. > > proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.145.87 > > proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.163.44 > > > Although it reads a little less nicely, this avoids having to tinker > > withMXrecords, so perhaps we'll make this the official way to set up > > custom domains. What do you guys think? > > > Adam > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
