Introduction:

Welcome to Zonal365 Email Hosting! This guide will walk you through the essential steps to get started with our email hosting services. Whether you’re a small business owner, an IT administrator, or an individual user, Zonal365 Email Hosting offers reliable and feature-rich email solutions tailored to your needs.

• Applies to: Active ZONAL365 Email Users
• Difficulty: Moderate
• Time needed: Approximately 30 minutes to configure and an additional 24-48 hours to propagate
• Tools required: DNS host administrator access

You also need access to update DNS entries for your domain. If you don’t know where your DNS is hosted, see Find your DNS host.

The following DNS entries are required to use email services at Zonal365 properly:

• MX records tell other email providers where to send email. Your MX records should point to Rackspace.
• SPF records reduce unwanted SPAM and spoofing from your domain and ensure that outgoing emails are delivered.
• Autodiscover records allow for full functionality of calendar features (free/busy information) and easier email client setups.

Configure DNS to send and receive email

Use the following steps to ensure your domain properly routes incoming and outgoing email.

1. Log in to the control panel for your domain DNS host.
2. Set the DNS entries to the values shown in the following table. Ensure that no other MX record entries exist, or you will experience complications with your email.