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This guide adds the DNS records from Adding and verifying a domain at DigitalOcean.

Records to create

Section titled “Records to create”

Take the exact values from the records array of your domain (dashboard, API or spacepost domains doctor acme.com). The shape is always:

Type Name Value Notes
CNAME <token1>._domainkey <token1>.dkim.amazonses.com Three CNAMEs, one per token
MX send feedback-smtp.eu-central-1.amazonses.com Priority 10
TXT send v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ~all Return-path SPF
TXT _dmarc v=DMARC1; p=none; Recommended

Steps

Section titled “Steps”
  1. In the control panel go to Networking, Domains, and select acme.com.
  2. Under Create new record choose the type tab (CNAME, MX or TXT).
  3. Hostname: the relative name (a1b2c3d4e5f6._domainkey, send, _dmarc). DigitalOcean appends the domain.
  4. CNAME: Is an alias of must end with a dot in the UI: a1b2c3d4e5f6.dkim.amazonses.com. (a trailing dot marks it as fully qualified; without it DigitalOcean appends your domain).
  5. MX: Mail provider’s server feedback-smtp.eu-central-1.amazonses.com. (with trailing dot), priority 10.
  6. TXT: Value without quotes.

Notes

Section titled “Notes”

The trailing dot on targets is the number one cause of failures on DigitalOcean: without it the target becomes ...amazonses.com.acme.com.

With doctl:

Terminal window
doctl compute domain records create acme.com --record-type CNAME \
  --record-name a1b2c3d4e5f6._domainkey --record-data a1b2c3d4e5f6.dkim.amazonses.com.
doctl compute domain records create acme.com --record-type MX \
  --record-name send --record-priority 10 --record-data feedback-smtp.eu-central-1.amazonses.com.
doctl compute domain records create acme.com --record-type TXT \
  --record-name send --record-data "v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ~all"

After saving, run spacepost domains doctor acme.com or call POST /domains/{id}/verify. If it does not verify, see Troubleshooting.