# How do I validate my DNS settings for email?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 16, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040 "2016-01-16T10:43:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Henrik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Henrik)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/1 "2016-01-16T10:43:22Z")
Hi!
I have encountered a small problem.
Email delivery to any other email adress than my own still doesnt work, even tough I have done the DNS changes and waited ~2 days. I cant figure out what I have done wrong, and wonder if maybe some of the existing values in my DNS panel are wrong. The A record works.
Is there anything obvious wrong in my DNS panel?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/2 "2016-01-16T12:35:42Z")
Problems with outgoing emails usually aren’t caused by DNS issues. Which mail provider do you use for outgoing mails? Can you post a screenshot of the SMTP configuration in your template (remember to remove sensitive data)? Does anything interesting show up in `/logs` when you try to send a test mail to another address?
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### Author:  [@Henrik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Henrik)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/3 "2016-01-16T13:34:39Z")
I have checked with mailgun, my domain is still not verified.
Either my DNS records were not created/saved properly, or my DNS host (onlydomains) is not publishing the records.
I have created a ticket with my DNS host, to figure out whats wrong. Will report back 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/4 "2016-01-17T00:36:49Z")
You will need to follow up with your mail provider, they usually have a dashboard that will query your DNS and tell you what to do and how to troubleshoot.
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### Author:  [@Henrik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Henrik)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/5 "2016-01-29T15:01:00Z")
I had to enter @ instead of artsphe.re, and just pic.\_domainkey because i already was inside the zone file for the domain name.
Also:
The DKIM value I was sent when my 99 dollar discourse installation was complete (and i was told to use) did not match the one i was supposed to use on mailgun. How did this happen? Did it change?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-validate-my-dns-settings-for-email/38040/6 "2024-06-08T12:45:53Z")
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