Google Apps on a subdomain with CNAME, how to setup MX records?
ZiglioNZ via StackOverflow
I've mapped a Google App Engine application using "Google Apps for your domain" on one subdomain (say "app.mydomain.com" ) and I've done that with a CNAME record in the DNS settings for mydomain.com.
Is it possible for Google Apps to handle e-mails sent to "@app.mydomain.com"? In the DNS record for mydomain.com, I would have a configuration like this:
CNAME app GHS.GOOGLE.COM
MX app 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
Would the CNAME entry for the subdomain conflict with MX records for the same subdomain?
[edit] The root domain MX record @mydomain.com is NOT setup with Google Apps
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ZiglioNZ via StackOverflow
I've mapped a Google App Engine application using "Google Apps for your domain" on one subdomain (say "app.mydomain.com" ) and I've done that with a CNAME record in the DNS settings for mydomain.com.
Is it possible for Google Apps to handle e-mails sent to "@app.mydomain.com"? In the DNS record for mydomain.com, I would have a configuration like this:
app.mydomain.com. CNAME GHS.GOOGLE.COM.
app.mydomain.com. MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
Femi via StackOverflow
You should be able to setup an alias domain as documented at http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=53295.
HOWEVER: you won't be able to maintain separate users for your subdomain. That will probably be an issue. I'd recommend looking at one of the folks who do mail to URL routing (like mailgun or Sendgrid): you could have mail POSTed to your app engine app, and then extract the recipient info and deal with it appropriately.
EDIT: ah, misunderstood. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're trying to have Google Apps handle all emails for a subdomain of an existing domain that is not already a Google Apps domain? If that's the case then you probably can't do this, since DNS basically won't let you assign different MX records to a CNAME'd subdomain. You can either use A records or point your root MX records at Google Apps (and then subdomain mail will go to the same place).
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