Email server migration to Amazon SES

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Hi, I want to migrate the email server from Hestia host to Amazon SES due to below two reasons:

  1. ClamAv and other email related stack consumes more resources on my limited VM server causing performance issues. Hence main server Maintenence becomes challenging.
  2. I think SES have higher mail delivery success rate.

I need help with below issues:

  1. How to cleanly turn off mail server and remove MX records from my domains.

  2. For one of the prime domains, I accidently created a subdomain as mail.<domain.com>. How to cleanly remove it so that mail server works fine as the A record which got created on mail subdomain creation is interfering with MX DNS record and hence Amazon SES is in confusion state for it to verify the domain MX record.

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Amazon SES is only for sending email…

Not for receiving it. So everything still needs to remain

If you have create a web domain for mail.domain.com just remove it. Mail domain make sure to create domain.com

Then go to “Edit” → Advanced and SMTP relay and enter the data…

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Thank you so much I was about to create a new topic for this, I want to use Hestia email but also use smtp from ZeptoMail and they ask you to add a CNAME record into the DNS with the mail.domain.ltd answer which was making me overthink on how to overcome this overlap with Hestia’s mail.domain.ltd web domain.

If I understand correctly I can avoid creating then the mail subdomain and just use ZeptoMail one while still having the mail account service working on Hestia, right?

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Hi, Yes, that’s correct understanding