How to add MX record for AWS SES?

Question

I am trying to set up AWS SES to receive emails and have it sent to my S3 bucket. I can presently send emails but cannot receive any emails. AWS documentation mentions Publishing an MX Record for Amazon SES Email Receiving (Publishing an MX Record for Amazon SES Email Receiving) but it doesn't actually tell you how to do this. Please can someone advise?

I have already created a receipt rule set and created the s3 bucket with the required permissions for emails to be sent there. I think my issue is with not knowing how to publish the MX record.

Answer 1

You need to login to your domain registrar panel to control records associated to it. To find the registrar information, try the ICANN's whois utility https://whois.icann.org/en.

Nearly all registrar's have a FAQ section explaining how to add a recordset to the zone. For eg.:

• Gandi - https://wiki.gandi.net/en/dns/zone/mx-record
• NameCheap - https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/322/2237/how-can-i-set-up-mx-records-required-for-mail-service
• GoDaddy - https://in.godaddy.com/help/manage-dns-zone-files-680
• etc.