DNS Records

MX Records

Your MX records are somewhat unique. While you may share MX records with a wealth of other customers, not every customer has the same MX records. When you sign up, you receive an e-mail with this subject:

[MXroute] Important Account Information

You need to reference this to find your MX records. If you can’t find the e-mail, you can find a copy of it here:

Email History

This is an EXAMPLE of what the e-mail MIGHT CONTAIN for the MX records:

DNS MX RECORDS:
echo.mxrouting.net (Priority 10)
echo-relay.mxrouting.net (Priority 20)
(These above are both record type “MX” and should have the name value set to either @ or blank, not a subdomain)

MIGHT CONTAIN! MIGHT CONTAIN! MIGHT CONTAIN! THOSE TWO WORDS ARE EXCESSIVELY VITAL! PLEASE DO NOT GLOSS OVER THIS PAGE, SCROLL BACK UP AND ACTUALLY READ THE TEXT ABOVE. ALL OF IT!

Did you read EVERY SINGLE WORD above? No? THEN DO NOT CONTINUE. You will be unable to use our service. Please file a cancellation request and put “I refuse to read instructions” as the reason for your cancellation. Please note that we will not provide refunds for failure to read instructions. If you DID read every single word above, continue scrolling.

I’m so sorry that we have to use language that appears so combative, but we’ve found it to be the only way to reduce unnecessary support overhead and we are an intentionally low budget operation.

SPF Record

Your SPF record is not as unique as your MX records. Your SPF record is a TXT DNS record at the root domain. These are basic templates for your SPF record, and you can use either one (preference, nothing more):

“v=spf1 include:mxroute.com -all”

or

“v=spf1 include:mxlogin.com -all”

DKIM

Your DKIM key is unique per domain. You can obtain your public DKIM key in DirectAdmin under “DKIM Keys” (look in the menus on the left side). You can find a tutorial for making use of it here: https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dkim/