Hi Annette,

In a recent post you had mentioned that due to unexplained technical glitch at everyone.net, creating upgraded@domainname.com for using their free web mail service didn't work quite right.

Do you have any info if this glitch at everyone.net been solved now?

I just tried to change the MX record for my domain on my VNS to...

sitemail.everyone.net

Is this the correct MX entry? Did I enter it incorrectly?

...but I get a page at the control center at the everyone.net website saying there is an error in my MX records.

Learner

isnt it

sitemail.everyone.net 0

i think thats what i did to setup http://mail.sheenaschat.net

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Changing MX (mail exchange) records redirects the mail for the domain or subdomain specified by your customer, to our mail servers. This will point all mail for this domain to our mail servers. We recommend priorities of 0 or 5 for these records to assure mail for the domain/subdomain goes to our mail servers. If you cannot use 0 or 5 for the priorities, please select the lowest number available.

For example, if your customer (abc.com) wanted to offer email addresses like jdoe@abc.com, you would create the following lines in their DNS file:

abc.com. IN MX 0 sitemail.everyone.net.

Note: We strongly suggest that your remove all other MX records and that you remove this domain from your list of local domains or aliases. Lastly, you must point this record to our server name (sitemail.everyone.net) and not solely to an IP address. If your servers can only point to an IP address, this customer cannot use our service.

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Learner

they seem to be down now. experiencing some technical difficuties.

question
-has anyone successfully set up the web based email thing with them. I have been having problems with setting up the MX record so mail resolves to them correctly. I am using zoneedit.com ... if anyone has any ideas let me know

thanks

David

You know Everyone.net sucks, too many downtimes, too annyoying, I pulled the plug with them and use my own webmailcheck, better than nothing since it is better this way until I find a stable script that has signup feature!

Please dont concern Everyone.net

Thanks!

Whatever problems they had regarding the proper resolution of web-based mail services seems to have been resolved a couple of weeks ago, with a little workaround type of thing at the user level. The issue at hand was the inability of everyone.net to acknowledge properly configured domain records that pointed MX records to sitemail.everyone.net (or sitemail2/3/4.everyone.net). When you go through the steps at everyone.net to have mail@yourdomain.com, it tries to verify against the domain records. At the time, when it failed, you could not verify anyway (which is one of the options they offer if the lookup fails). That issue passed, and even though the lookups have failed consistently over the past weeks, comfirming without verification does result in a successful setup of mail@yourdomain.com for most people (assuming properly configured records).

The MX instructions, as written, don't always do the trick - that is, you might need an additional entry based solely on the IP address of sitemail.everyone.net.

For your main mail entry, you would have exactly what they have written

IN MX 0 sitemail.everyone.net

and perhaps a couple of additional entries

IN MX 10 sitemail2.everyone.net
IN MX 15 sitemail3.everyone.net
IN MX 20 sitemail4.everyone.net

We found it necessary to add additional entries in the record, in this format:

#(Existing entries)
ftp IN A your.IP.address.here
www IN A your.IP.address.here
#(New entry)
mail IN A sitemail.everyone.net.IP

We also removed any MX/mail references that pointed to the domain itself, rather than simply commenting them out.

(Be sure to refresh your nameserver tables after making modifications of any sort.)

While the mail seems to work fine, there is still an ongoing issue with the forums and search functions provided by everyone.net. For that reason, and since we have yet to find a workaround that is consistently reliable, we no longer offer to set those two up for people. Mail appears to be less an issue than it was previously, though.