Following case: With another provider (Strato), I registered a domain named example.com .
In the provider’s domain interface for `example.com’, I set a A record ‘75.2.60.5’, and everything seems to work.
The only that does not seem to work (or not anymore) are mails to xy@example.com. No email to ‘contact@example.com’ seems to arrive, though this worked before the migration to Netlify (from Vercel).
I’m aware MX records need to be inserted when Netlify’s own DNS is being used via the [Nameserver] (NS) (Netlify DNS | Netlify Docs) setup in my provider. However, I did not follow this setup and hence did not change the NS records of example.com.
Hence, my question: Do I need to make any adjustment for my mail (MX) in Netlify, when only using the Apex-domain method? (or did I simply not wait long enough, since I changed it only six hours ago?)
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Thanks for the quick response. I have seen that, but it seems this setup is for the ‘Using Netlify DNS’ case (1) only, correct? The manual explains it is primarily for this case, but it does not explicitly mention whether any changes need to be made for the ‘Apex domain with A level pointer’ case (2). That’s why I asked more explicit, most of the mail questions seem to relate to case (1).
This is used for configuring external DNS, not when using Netlify DNS, which as per the documentation you have previously linked to, your change your Nameservers to those specified by Netlify. Once you added your MX records you would have something like
