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Goodbye Google G Suite Legacy Account, Hello MXroute

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Digital Poof

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Not A Bad Run

End of era sort of moment, starting to migrate off of my G Suite Legacy accounts.

Status

MikeBeane.com

  • MXRoute account(s) created: Done
  • DNS Updated: updated Nameservers at DP
  • CloudFlare Success Email: Received
  • SPF: Done
  • DKIM: Done
  • DMARC: Done
  • Google Takeout: Complete
  • G Suite Subscription: Cancelled

RabbiBob.com

  • MXRoute account(s) created: Done
  • DNS Updated: updated Nameservers at DP
  • CloudFlare Success Email: Received
  • SPF: Done
  • DKIM: Done
  • DMARC: Done
  • Google Takeout: RabbiBob Pending
  • Google Takeout: Webmaster Pending
  • G Suite Subscription: Active

BetaMountain.org

  • MXRoute account(s) created: Done
  • DNS Updated: updated Nameservers at DP
  • CloudFlare Success Email: Received
  • SPF: Done
  • DKIM: Done
  • DMARC: Done
  • Google Takeout: N\A (Sub of RabbiBob.com)
  • G Suite Subscription: N\A (Sub of RabbiBob.com)

To Do

  • (DONE) update forums smtp and test
    • required ssl:// before the sending address and 465
  • update bm wiki smtp and test
  • update rb wiki smtp and test
  • figure out mailtransport @ rb

Migration Steps

MXRoute

  • Moved services to MXRoute
    • Control Panel->Account Manager->Add Domain
  • Make sure you're under the correct domain
  • Control Panel->Email Managers-> Email Accounts
    • create a primary email account for the domain
    • create a forwarder from the base account to the primary account
      • we should expect little to no email to the base account in my case as the address was derivative of my MXR account name
  • Control Panel->Account Manager->DNS
    • Get DNS settings
      • DKIM
    • Update DNS at DNS service
    • DomainPeople couldn't take a txt entry for x._domainkey for DKIM and after trying variations, I moved things to CloudFlare
      • Set up DNS at CloudFlare
      • When all your records are there (website and mail, etc), go back to DP and update two items:
        • DNS NS entries
        • Home->Domain Names->EDIT->Name Servers->Edit
          • Update NS here
          • Activate is needed
  • Wait and test DNS propagation.
  • At this point, mail is flowing to MXR, but dkim/dmarc are not set up yet until DNS NS to CF updates.

Settings

Testing

DNS

  • Edit your zone. In my case, I migrated to CloudFlare, which required updating

Old Notes

DNS

  • DomainPeople - ran into some DKIM setup issues, most likely due to my inexperience with the source & destination
  • Testing Cloudflare DNS - may swap back to DomainPeople if I can sort the DKIM item
  • It could be that I'm in a pending status with DNS:
  • Updated Nameservers this morning at DP using info here and in the DNS settings page as well. The nslookup results appear promising. Waiting for CF to update after the change.
    • and there's an email from CF! Congratulations! You have successfully activated mikebeane.com.

Checks

Verify Nameservers
  • nslookup -querytype=ns (domain)
Verify Start of Authority
  • nslookup -querytype=soa (domain)
Check txt (SPF)
  • nslookup -type=txt (domain)
Check txt (DKIM)
  • nslookup -type=txt x._domainkey.(domain) 1.1.1.1
    • Getting error on this return, probably the root of my issue
Check txt (DMARC)
  • nslookup -type=txt _dmarc.(domain) 1.1.1.1
    • Getting error on this return as well
Quick List
nslookup -querytype=ns (domain)
nslookup -querytype=soa (domain)
nslookup -type=txt (domain)
nslookup -type=txt x._domainkey.(domain) 1.1.1.1
nslookup -type=txt _dmarc.(domain) 1.1.1.1

Thunderbird

  • Been awhile since we've done this...
  • Google Takeout .mbox integration has gone well
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