Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers
Jamroom Hosting
Ken_Rich:Has anyone actually set-up their mail-gun yet. Their site asks me to change my DNS settings, but I can't at Go Daddy because the nameservers are not pointed there. They still won't be pointed there if I host with Jamroom. So I don't understand how I am supposed to changed the DNS settings like they require.
If you plan on handling all your own DNS records (i.e. you are not going to update the nameservers on your domain to point to Jamroom Hosting) then you will need to manually take care of this:
- If you are only going to SEND email via Mailgun (i.e. you will be receiving email for your domain at another provider) then you only need to setup the TXT records (SPF and DKIM).
- If you want to be able to control the aliases then you'll have to also change the MX records for your domain to point to Mailgun so it can "be in the middle" and route your aliases properly.
So it really comes down to how you want to handle your email. Note that if you ever want to run the Support Tickets module you'll need Mailgun to handle all your domain email. However it is important to know that Mailgun does NOT do mailboxes - i.e. no "POP3" or "IMAP" - every email that comes in to Mailgun must be sent somewhere else (which is why we have an aliases interface in our hosting).
For example - when you send email to brian [at] jamroom [dot] net, it comes in to mailgun and mailgun says "I see I am supposed to forward all email for brian [at] jamroom [dot] net to brian [at] otherdomain [dot] com - and on the "otherdomain.com" is where I have an actual IMAP mailbox.
You can have it forward incoming email to any valid system - a lot of users use Gmail.
Let me know if that helps.