When using the wizard for our VPS mailservice it is not possible to use this for automatically setting the DNS records for a subdomain. You could however be wanting to send mail via a specific subdomain. Additionally, the hostname of your server is usually a subdomain and could be used to send certain 'automatic' mails or PHP forms.

How do I configure the necessary DNS records in the control panel?

To set the DNS records for the mailservice in our control panel, you basically only need to copy the original records and add .[YOURSUBDOMAIN] after. If the example below are the DNS records for the mailservice:

@	5 Min 	TXT	v=spf1 include:_spf.transip.email ~all
transip-a._domainkey	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-A.transip.email.
transip-b._domainkey	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-B.transip.email.
transip-c._domainkey	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-C.transip.email.
x-transip-mail-auth	5 Min 	TXT	c074e69e4c8d82ff810a47e81d11ca

Then the following records could be used voor setting up the mailservice for the subdomain 'subdomain':

subdomain 	5 Min 	TXT	v=spf1 include:_spf.transip.email ~all
transip-a._domainkey.subdomain 	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-A.transip.email.
transip-b._domainkey.subdomain 	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-B.transip.email.
transip-c._domainkey.subdomain 	5 Min 	CNAME	_dkim-C.transip.email.
x-transip-mail-auth.subdomain 	5 Min 	TXT	c074e69e4c8d82ff810a47e81d11ca

Of course you need to replace subdomain for the subdomain you want to use and you will also need to change the "x-transip-mail-auth" code to your own. In this article (step 9) we explain where you can find your x-transip-mail-auth record.

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