MX Route Setup

MX Route Mail Settings:

POP/IMAP Server:          everest.mxrouting.net
SMTP Server:                   everest.mxrouting.net                  port 587             TLS

InMotion:  Setup / Prepare Hosting

  1. Setup hosting on dedi server
  2. Add details to RoboForm for client
  3. Clone WP Base Install to new hosting account on InMotion BEFORE changing NS to Cloudflare!
  4. If existing hosting, clean up unused addon domains
  5. Clean up zone records

MX Route:

  1. Add domain:
    https://everest.mxrouting.net:2222/evo/reseller/users/create-user
    Note: Account username will be the default email catch-all account.Use email: hi@digitaldahling.com
  1. Login as User:
    1. Go to list of all accounts:
      https://everest.mxrouting.net:2222/evo/reseller/users
    2. Click on the username for the account
    3. Click on GREEN button “LOGIN AS …….”
  2. Create email account/s
    https://everest.mxrouting.net:2222/evo/user/email/accounts
    Left sidebar  >  E-mail Manager  >  E-mail Accounts  >  “CREATE ACCOUNT” button

    1. Add new email account/s
    2. Add details to RoboForm for client
  1. Get DKIM Record:
    https://everest.mxrouting.net:2222/evo/user/dns

    1. Left sidebar >  Account Manager  >  DNS Management
    2. Copy ‘Value’ of x._domainkey

 

Split DKIM before adding to InMotion

  1. Copy DKIM from MX Route
  2. Go to https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/dns-record-splitter
  3. Paste the FULL DKIM into the box
  4. Copy the result
  5. Paste the result into notepad
  6. Remove the “ from the beginning & end
  7. You should have 2 lines
  8. The 2 lines go into InMotion DNS Zone Settings separately.

InMotion: DNS Zone Settings

  1. Add DKIM to InMotion / Cloudflare DNS
    txt _domainkey    [Value]
    ** get the DKIM Value from here: https://everest.mxrouting.net:2222/evo/user/dns
    Copy the 2 lines from the notepad and add them separately into InMotion like this:
  2. Delete old MX Record
  3. Add MXRoute MX Records:
    Primary              @          (priority 10)       mxrouting.net
    Secondary          @          (priority 20)       everest-relay.mxrouting.net
  4. Add SPF Record:
    txt @          “v=spf1 include:mxlogin.com -all”
    If SPF already exists, before the ~all  add “ +include:mxlogin.com “
  5. Change mail CNAME to:
    CNAME              mail                   everest.mxrouting.net                  DNS only                         auto
  6. Email Routing:
    Change email routing to ‘Remote Mail Exchanger
  7. Send test email to check emails are working

Testing DNS:

Note: it may take 1 minute or as long as 4 hours for DNS changes to “show up” in the tester.
This is normal, and there’s no way of making it go quicker.

  1. CNAME, A Record, NS, MX, TXT etc
    https://dnschecker.org/
  2. DNS Record Splitter
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/dns-record-splitter
  3. DKIM Validator
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/dkim-validator and type in
    _domainkey. + your domain (no spaces)
  4. MX Inspector
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/mx-inspector
  5. SPF Validator
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/spf-validator
  6. DMARC Validator
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/dmarc-validator
  7. SMTP TLS Validator
    https://www.mailhardener.com/tools/tls-rpt-validator