On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM, pdconant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to use the same subdomain for both a Google App Engine app > and for GMail? For instance, imagine I wanted to have > http://myapp.mycompany.com served by GAE and also use email address > [email protected]. For the GAE app, I'd need a CNAME pointing > myapp.mycompany.com to "ghs.googlehosted.com."; and for GMail to work, > I'd need MX records for "myapp.mycompany.com". But I don't believe I can > have CNAME and MX records for the same subdomain. I'm no DNS expert -- I > hope I'm missing something obvious to those more knowledgeable than myself. > Any ideas? > As you noted, it's difficult to have both a CNAME and MX records for the same subdomain. Here's a detailed explanation of the issue: http://serverfault.com/questions/18000/dns-subdomains-that-require-both-an-mx-record-and-a-cname Unfortunately there's no way to avoid this problem, other than to violate best practices and RFCs (as the link above describes)<http://serverfault.com/a/29323>. You'll have to find a different way to issue email addresses - for example, you could do [email protected], [email protected], or purchase a whole different domain name for email and do [email protected] ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
