F'ing GoDaddy

Axtremus

@George-K , about those "CNAME" entries, you don't have to worry about them if you only give out your email address in the form of yourUserName@yourDomain.com .

Some people give out email addresses like yourUserName@email.yourDomain.com or yourUserName@mail.yourDomain.com ... or they choose to login to email.yourDomain.com or mail.yourDomain.com to access their emails. In these situations you may have to worry about those CNAME entries. Otherwise you should be fine without worrying about those CNAME entries.

taiwan_girl

@George-K , @Axtremus told me about tiger tech and that is who I use when I bought a domain.

In USD, it is $120/year

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

So...

Setting things up was a bit more difficult than I anticipated.

I signed up with Bluehost.com for my email.

After taking my money, there was no easy way to transition from GoDaddy/Exchange. I spent about an hour with tech support this PM changing DNS settings, etc.

They were spectacularly unhelpful - or perhaps spectacularly wrong.

After a couple of hours of not receiving or being able to send email, I contacted tech support again.

"Preena" was great. She (?) looked at my DNS settings at GoDaddy, and held my hand while I changed settings on the "A" setting, the "MX" setting etc.

No joy.

And then, she asked me to look at various CNAME settings. I deleted a bunch of them and now, it looks like I'm able to receive mails from my domain.

I've yet to try sending, but I think it'll be OK.

Yeah, a hassle, but not hard.

89th

@jon-nyc said in F'ing GoDaddy:

Looks to me like you’ll be the master of your own domain.

POTD (3 days ago)

89th

@George-K Have you been able to send emails? I recall jumping through similiar hoops a few years ago when I used a GoDaddy domain but switched email over to Zoho or another email provider. Indeed it took a little messing with the DNS records (cname, a, etc...) but eventually it worked. Yes I believe the secureserver.net is a godaddy thing.

I wish Danica Patrick would chime in here with some support. Any type of support. ANY.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Yeah, the secureserver was a GoDaddy thing. Got rid of those and all was fine.

Until mails sent to gmail accounts started bouncing back.

Had to change some DNS settings again at GoDaddy. All appears to be fine now.

The question is ... what to do with all my old emails that are sitting on a MS Exchange server. Should I try to transfer them to Bluehost, or download them to my computer.

Axtremus

@George-K , mind posting another screenshot showing your DNS entries on GoDaddy? Feel free to mask your domain name, of course, just leave the host name portions. Curious to see what CNAME entries you have to preserve/remove/change to make email work with a different provider. Thanks.

89th

@George-K said in F'ing GoDaddy:

The question is ... what to do with all my old emails that are sitting on a MS Exchange server. Should I try to transfer them to Bluehost, or download them to my computer.

Depends if you need them? I would download to computer/cloud for archiving.

89th

Here are the DNS settings I used when I set up email via Zoho for a website. I'd imagine this isn't fine tuned and not perfect, but it got the job done a few years ago when I set it. Set it...and forget it.