Use subdomain for receiving email at mailgun

Claire Furney

• 1 min read

I previously set up mailgun for sending email from this ghost site and therefore from the dot.kitchen domain. However I now want to receive emails on that domain, so as recommended at mailgun, I'm switching to using a subdomain of mg.dot.kitchen instead of the top level dot.kitchen domain. Following that I'll be able to set up some mailboxes for dot.kitchen in Zoho.

Adjusting setup

  1. Add new domain in mailgun of mg.dot.kitchen
  2. Update DNS records as specified by mailgun. This essentially meant updating the previous set of records to incorporate the mg. prefix.
  3. Wait 20 minutes for DNS to propogate
  4. Verify domain
  5. Test receiving mail at e.g. test@mg.dot.kitchen (requires route to be set up - catch all one is fine e.g. using catch_all() and store())
  6. Update ghost's config.js with new settings
  7. Restart ghost service ghost restart
  8. Test email with settings > labs > send a test email