Configure Bluehost DNS Settings
Configure MX Records for Email Delivery – Bluehost
If your domain’s DNS Manager is hosted with Bluehost, follow the below steps to add MX records for your Domain for email delivery.
To manage your MX record:
- Login to your Bluehost Account.
- Click the Domains menu at the top of the page.
- Click on the Zone Editor link in the submenu.
- In the DNS Zone Editor, select the domain you’re modifying from the drop-down box.
- Scroll down to Add DNS Record.
- Complete the following fields:
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- In the Host Record field, enter @ to denote the default domain for email delivery.
- TTL. Leave this field at its default setting.
- Type. Select MX from the drop-down menu.
- In the Points to field, enter mx.caribonix.com.cust.a.hostedemail.com.
- In Priority field, enter 10
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- Click Add Record to finish the process.
Note: The instructions provided above may vary slightly. The dot(.) at the end of the MX record is optional. This depends on your domain DNS provider. We recommend you to go through your DNS provider’s support documentation for the exact method to add the MX entries.
You have successfully added MX records for your Bluehost hosted domain. You can check the MX records with the third party tool www.mxtoolbox.com.
Note: This update may take from a few minutes or up to 72 hours to take effect (depending on your domain name registrar). After some time, you can check the MX records with www.mxtoolbox.com
Important Points:
- Ensure that you have deleted all the MX records related to your previous email provider. Any other existing MX record will conflict with Caribonix Mail, affect email delivery and result in permanent loss of emails delivered.
- The MX Caribonix that should be returned when you check in www.mxtoolbox.com should be
- mx.caribonix.com.cust.a.hostedemail.com