Add your domain and set up DNS
Prove the domain is yours, then add the mail records. Every record shows whether we have found it.
Setting up a domain takes two steps, and you can stop and come back at any point.
- Choose Add new business, enter its name and its domain, and choose Continue. You'll need access to the domain's DNS settings, usually where you bought it.
- Add the records shown. We check for you every few seconds while the page is open, and on our own after that.
Step 1: prove the domain is yours
Add one TXT record with the name _viremail and the value shown. Until we find it, nothing about your mail changes and nothing is set up on our side. If you need a fresh value, choose Get a new code; the old one then stops counting.
Step 2: the mail records
Once ownership is proven, the mail records appear:
| Record | What it does |
|---|---|
| MX | Brings the domain's mail to Viremail |
| SPF (TXT) | Says Viremail may send mail for the domain |
| DKIM (TXT) | Signs your mail so others can trust it |
| DMARC (TXT) | Tells other services what to do with mail that fails those checks |
The optional records under Make mail apps set themselves up let Outlook, Apple Mail and Thunderbird find the right settings on their own.
Each record has Copy buttons for its name and its value, and a status:
- Waiting: not found yet. Most changes show within minutes; some take up to an hour.
- Found: it's there as it should be.
- Wrong value: something is there, but not what we asked for. We show what we found and how to fix it.
- Conflict: there are two records where there may only be one, for example two SPF records.
Choose Check now to look straight away.
Where your DNS is kept
We work out where your DNS is kept and show the steps for it: Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google Domains or Squarespace, Amazon Route 53, or another provider. Pick a different one from the list if ours is wrong. A few tips:
- Cloudflare: set the autodiscover and autoconfig records to DNS only.
- Namecheap: choose Custom MX under Mail Settings.
- Route 53: the copy button gives long values as quoted parts, and the MX value with its priority, as Route 53 wants them.
If you already have an SPF record, we show yours with ours added, so you keep one record. If you already have a DMARC record, we keep it as it is.
When everything is found, the page says your domain is ready. Calendar and People for the domain are ready within 10 minutes.