One forwarding service per domain

With 2 forwarding services in your MX records, each service gets part of your email, and neither sees all of it.

Why the email splits#

MX priority is a preference, not a rule. A sending server may pick a lower-priority MX host when the first one is slow, busy or briefly unreachable, and some senders ignore priority altogether. Email that reaches the other service never passes through your aliases, and it never appears in your Mailyoto Logs.

What the dashboard does about it#

By default, every MX host must be Mailyoto’s: Allow backup MX servers on the DNS tab is off.

Any other MX host keeps the domain from verifying, and the Forwarding pill shows a cross. The DNS tab then lists your other MX records under “Your current MX records. Delete them, then add the 2 Mailyoto MX records above:”.

MX record 1

mx1.mailyoto.com

Priority

10

MX record 2

mx2.mailyoto.com

Priority

20

Keeping a backup mail server#

You can keep 1 other mail server as a backup:

1. Keep both Mailyoto MX records, with priorities 10 and 20.
2. Give the backup server’s MX record a larger priority number than 20.
3. On the domain’s DNS tab, select Allow backup MX servers under the Forwarding records. Mailyoto saves the change at once.

With backup MX servers allowed, the domain verifies only while both Mailyoto MX records are in place. A sender can still deliver to the backup at any time. Check that server for email as well.