Well, I tried this (using mail.mydomain.com for MX) and it didn't work for me on GoDaddy. I think this is just GoDaddy's problem ... they wouldn't set up an email forwarding address for a subdomain. Theoretically I think using a subdomain for your email should work, but I'm giving up on it now, and just using a completely different domain for email.
It would be great if Heroku could figure out a reliable way to customize MX records for our CNAME'd domains. Nate On Jun 20, 5:52 pm, Nate Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm struggling with this problem, too. > > I was thinking a workaround might be to use a subdomain for your > MX ... so that you can still use the top-level domain for your > website. For example, use mail.mydomain.com for sending mail, and keep > your CNAME pointed to heroku on mydomain.com. I haven't tried this yet > --- is there any reason why this wouldn't work? > > Nate > > On Jun 19, 1:54 pm, Erik Pukinskis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Although I guess another solution is just to forward mydomain.com > > tohttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
