linode server, namecheap domain, protonmail HELP
Thanks in advance. I am very new to this stuff so I just need help with the whats and wheres of it all.
I had my namecheap domian set to custom name serves and working with my linode server great for a 6 months or so.
I decided it would be fun to attach my domain to my protonmail account (no particular reason i may never use that email just wanted to expieriment and learn). The directions said to switch my namecheap from customDNS to namecheap basicDNS. That got rid of my customDNS that was set to work with my linode server. I got the email up and functional with namecheap and began to work on the nameserves for linode (ns1.linode.com, ect ect) the problem was i could only find personal name serves as an option on namecheap and those do not seem to function the same way. I have to list an IP address for nameservers and can not have them go to ns1.linode.com.
so im guessing I got the order to some of this wrong. It looks like i could set up all of my protonmail CNAME records and TXT records into linodes domain interface but would that properly resolve exchanges with a domain from namecheap? or is there another way to set up nameserves on namecheap to hands the domain to ip address as well as namecheap to protonmail?
im sure this is an easy question but a great learning experience for me?
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CassandraD
Linode Staff
Hi there,
Hopefully someone who has set this up before sees this and offers more help. For now, I wanted to see if you could share a link to the directions you used?
The directions said to switch my namecheap from customDNS to namecheap basicDNS.
I've been trying to find a reason you couldn't keep using our nameservers, and I wasn't able to find one, so I was hoping the guide you used explained that.
You also mentioned setting up DNS records with our DNS Manager, so I wanted to share documentation for that feature with you in case you wanted to give it a try:
here is the proton instructions.
https://proton.me/support/custom-domain-namecheap
So I switched everything back to how i had it set up before and tried to use the linode name serves for the email connection, but I ran into an issue when proton provides TXT records where the HOST is "@" and linode dns manager says "@" contains invalid characters. so im stuck there again. Maybe I need to parse out the proton provided TXT records into pieces or something. Not sure.
ok I solved it proton provides a solution to the "@" host just leave that space empty. thanks for the input