adding mailserver with namecheap domain not working about terry-the-terraformer HOT 3 OPEN

I was never able to fully get mailservers working. This is mainly due to the main email hosting providers (google, msft, etc) require you to use the SMTP relay of your chosen cloud provider. I have yet to have enough time to really dig into getting that built out and likely will not have the time to do that unfortunately :(

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looking into my specific issue further, it looks like maybe namecheap requires that once you add an MX record, all new record add api calls require the RecordType parameter to be MX, even if you're only adding an A record. I'm not completely positive that's what's going on (and I've moved away from trying to use Terry for the mailserver for the time being) but it's what it looks like to me.

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Could be a multitude of things. Ultimately, configuring mailservers is difficult given you must create the DNS records after creation of the infrastructure as the DMARC / DKIM records will rely on the keys generated on that host. I had gotten most of the skeleton for that built into Terry, but never got it finalized given the roadblocker of needing to use SMTP relays inside of each cloud provider

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