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I'm trying to add DNS records for a domain that will be using
Sendgrid.com to send bulk email to members and am running into a few
problems and have a few questions:<br>
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1) Sendgrid wants me to add a CNAME record on a subdomain with the
record pointing to them, for instance on sendgrid.mydomain.com. I
know that everyone says to never add CNAME records, but since this
is an unused subdomain, is this okay?<br>
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2) They also want me to add records with specific host names that
the BX GUI is choking on, saying that they contain invalid
characters. Since Sendgrid does this with lots of domains, I'm
assuming these characters are not actually invalid, but the BX GUI
won't accept them. Is there a way around this? They want me to add
TXT records for <span>smtpapi._domainkey.mydomain.com and </span><span>smtpapi._domainkey.<em
class="subdomain_text">sendgrid</em>.mydomain.com and an A
record for </span><span>o1.<em class="subdomain_text">sendgrid</em>.mydomain.com.
The GUI is choking on all three of these for illegal characters in
the host name.<br>
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-jim</span>
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