Goodbye Google G Suite Legacy Account, Hello MXroute

Digital Poof

Not A Bad Run

End of era sort of moment, starting to migrate off of my G Suite Legacy accounts.

Status

MikeBeane.com

• MXRoute account(s) created: Done
• DNS Updated: Testing CloudFlare
• SPF: Done
• DKIM: Testing
• DMARC: Pending
• Google Takeout: Complete
• G Suite Subscription: Cancelled

RabbiBob.com

• MXRoute account(s) created: Done
• DNS Updated: Pending
• SPF: Pending
• DKIM: Pending
• DMARC: Pending
• Google Takeout: Test Completed
• G Suite Subscription: Active

BetaMountain.org

• MXRoute account(s) created: Done
• DNS Updated: Pending
• SPF: Pending
• DKIM: Pending
• DMARC: Pending
• Google Takeout: N\A (Sub of RabbiBob.com)
• G Suite Subscription: N\A (Sub of RabbiBob.com)

MXRoute

Moving services to MXRoute

Settings

• SPF: ok
  • https://accounts.mxroute.com/index.php?/news/view/22/urgent--fix-your-spf-/
• DKIM: still getting an error
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6amwMvOzWw
  • https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dkim/
    • At the time of posting, the directions are slightly different than the Control Panel
• DMARC: pending
  • https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dmarc/

Testing

• https://www.mail-tester.com/
  • Three free tests per day

DNS

• DomainPeople - ran into some DKIM setup issues, most likely due to my inexperience with the source & destination
• Testing Cloudflare DNS - may swap back to DomainPeople if I can sort the DKIM item
• It could be that I'm in a pending status with DNS:
  • Check this out -> https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/full-setup/setup/
• Updated Nameservers this morning at DP using info here and in the DNS settings page as well. The nslookup results appear promising. Waiting for CF to update after the change.

Checks

• References
  • https://prodmarc.com/knowledge/querying-spf-dkim-and-dmarc-records/

Verify Nameservers

• nslookup -querytype=ns (domain)

Verify Start of Authority

• nslookup -querytype=soa (domain)

Check txt (SPF)

• nslookup -type=txt (domain)

Check txt (DKIM)

• nslookup -type=txt x._domainkey.(domain) 1.1.1.1

  • Getting error on this return, probably the root of my issue

Check txt (DMARC)

• nslookup -type=txt _dmarc.(domain) 1.1.1.1

  • Getting error on this return as well

Quick List

nslookup -querytype=ns (domain)
nslookup -querytype=soa (domain)
nslookup -type=txt (domain)
nslookup -type=txt x._domainkey.(domain) 1.1.1.1
nslookup -type=txt _dmarc.(domain) 1.1.1.1

Thunderbird

• Been awhile since we've done this...
• Google Takeout .mbox integration has gone well