Email Sending Domain

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Set up your custom email sending domain, free with your AllClients account.

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  In this video you will learn how to set up your own custom email sending domain. 

  To begin this process, you will need your own domain name that you control and your own email address on that domain. 

  I set up a fictitious domain name: tuvorex.com and my email on that domain is jeff at tuvorex.com.

  First go to your mail merge profile and make sure that your email address matches the domain.
  
  This will be the email address you use in the system.

  To verify your email address, click the send verification email button and go check your email.

  Then come back to this screen and your email will show as verified. 

  Now go to ‘settings’ and then ‘email sending domains’.

  We want to ‘add a Sending Domain’. 

  To set up your email sending domain, select the first choice, “send” and then enter your domain here. Click save.

  Now to get your email sending domain working properly, you will need to add these records to your domain’s DNS settings. 

  This involves logging into your domain registrar account, such as GoDaddy, Namecheap, SquareSpace or similar providers. 

  You will copy and paste these TXT & CNAME records into your Domain’s DNS Settings.
  
  Locate your DNS settings in your domain registrar and find the option to add a record.

  You will see a screen that looks like this with the option to choose record type.

  You will be pasting 3 TXT records and 1 CNAME record.
  
  In the CRM, Click the copy icon to copy the appropriate hostname and then paste that data into your domain DNS screen.
  
  Then copy over the value.

  If there are additional options or settings, leave the setting as is.

  Click save.

  Do this again for the next TXT record. 

  Same as before, click the copy icon to copy over the second record’s hostname and value, and then paste that data the same way.

  As you make these additions to your DNS settings you can click this button to check and see if you have done it correctly.

  If you have done it correctly, these will be green.

  It could take up to 15 minutes for these changes to take place.
  
  CNAME copies over the same way.

  Copy the hostname and value and paste into your Domain DNS screen.

  To configure DMARC, we will add the record as a TXT record.

  Copy the data over and save the record.

  In total, you will have added 4 DNS records to your domain.

  Unfortunately, we can’t check to see if your DMARC settings are configured properly in the system, but you can check that here.   

  Once these are all green, you have one last step. 

  Go back to your ‘Email Deliverability Dashboard’ and select your new sending domain from this drop-down.

  Now you are all green and your email sending domain is configured properly. 

  Here are some tips:

  Tip 1: Click the copy icon to copy the appropriate setting and then paste that setting into your Domain DNS screen. 

  Tip 2: Each domain registrar does things differently. In general terms, to find the area where you are adding DNS records, you want to look for terms such as “Manage Domains” or “Advanced DNS”. 

  Tip 3: Each domain registrar uses varying terminology for different fields.

  For Example:

  In GoDaddy, Hostname is called Name, and Value is called Value.

  In NameCheap, Hostname is called Host and Value is called Value.

  In SquareSpace, Hostname is called Host and Value is called Data.

  Tip 4: Domain registrars are usually good about providing support. If you run into any problems adding DNS records to your Domain, reach out to them and get support.