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Change DNS-settings to email from your own Domain
Change DNS-settings to email from your own Domain

ABOSS will send emails from no-reply@a-boss.net, but did you know you can also send them from your own email address?

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Written by Thomas van Beek
Updated over a week ago

When you send an email from ABOSS the recipient will see that it has been sent from no-reply@a-boss.net. The Reply-To is already set to your own email address, but you might just want to tweak that a little bit further by setting the senders email address to your own.

To do so, you have to update some of the DNS settings of your own domain. This steps are a bit technical, if you have no experience doing so it is advised to ask some help from somebody who has more experience with changing the DNS configuration. If you do not have such a person at hand, you can contact your hosting provider.

Settings

Two records need to be added to your DNS settings. Replace the [yourdomain] with your own domain (also remove the '[ ]' brackets).

DKIM:

  • Create two CNAME records: one with the name mte1._domainkey.[yourdomain].com* with the value dkim1.mandrillapp.com, and another with the name mte2._domainkey.[yourdomain].com* and the value dkim2.mandrillapp.com

Note: some hosts need a dot, like below. We will check your settings and let you know if this is the case.

  • Create two CNAME records: one with the name mte1._domainkey.yourdomain.com * with the value dkim1.mandrillapp.com. (notice the added dot), and another with the name mte2._domainkey.yourdomain.com * and the value dkim2.mandrillapp.com. (notice the added dot)

DMARC:

  • Create and save a TXT record in your DNS with a host of _dmarc.[yourdomain].com* and a value of v=DMARC1; p=none

*Some domain hosts automatically add 'yourdomain.com' after the initial value — contact your domain provider for any specifics

If you have any questions, please send us a message on Support Chat or send an e-mail to support@a-boss.net.


Email

After adding these records please contact us, so we can take care of the last step. You will then receive an email from Mandrill to validate your address, please forward this mail to support@a-boss.net.

You will receive a confirmation from us when all is set.

Please note that when the DNS update is done, only users with this domain can email from ABOSS.

If a user has an email address with a different domain than there must be a DNS record update for that domain as well to be able to mail from ABOSS. When that’s necessary please contact us.

The new user must be the owner of that domain. For users with a gmail.com, me.com, hotmail.com etc domain a DNS record update is not possible. 

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