The Senders feature in MailBluster simplifies the management of sender identities and DNS records, eliminating the need for manual adjustments in your AWS dashboard.
Now, you can easily verify your Sender Domain from within MailBluster. Just go to your Brand > Settings > @Senders.
Click on Create new
Select Domain for domain verification
Enter your domain address and then click Create sender
Read the instructions carefully and click View Sender
You will notice that your sender domain is showing “Pending” status along with DKIM records, Custom MAIL FROM domain record and SPFF record as “Unverified”
Copy the generated Name and its Value from each of the CNAMEs under DKIM records
Now go to the DNS > Records of your Domain’s CPANEL / DNS Management console and select Type CNAME
Copy Name and Value from MailBluster and paste to DNS Management as shown below
Set Proxy status to off. Then click Save
A CNAME record will be created in your DNS Management
Now click Add record in your DNS Management
Select Type CNAME and copy paste the 2nd CNAME from MailBluster
Here we copied the 2nd CNAME and its Value from @Senders of MailBluster
And paste it into your DNS Management like the one shown below
Follow the same procedure for the 3rd record by copying it from MailBluster
And paste it to your DNS Management as 3rd record
Wait approximately 48 hours maximum for DNS values to propagate and then click Refresh
The DNS Records will show “Verified” and domain will show “Success”
Now click Edit record for Custom MAIL FROM domain record
Enter subdomain in MAIL FROM domain and then click Save changes
You will notice that the Custom MAIL FROM domain record and SPF record will be changed to the new subdomain
Copy the Name from the SPF Record
Click Add record from your DNS Management
Select Type TXT and Name for your domain
Copy Value from SPF Record
Paste in Content (required) and click Save
TXT record is now added to your DNS Management
Copy the Custom MAIL FROM domain record
Click Add record from your DNS Management again
Copy Name, Value and Priority from Custom MAIL FROM domain record
Paste it to DNS Management as MX Record Type, Name (required), Mail server (required) and Priority (required). Then click Save.
MX Record is added to your DNS Management
You will now notice that Custom MAIL FROM domain record and SPF record will show “Verified“
Now, it’s time to Generate record for DMARC. Click on the Generate record button
Enter your domain address for DMARC
Select type of DMARC policy Nothing yet, just collect data
Select the domain for Aggregate Reports sent
Select No for Individual failure reports
Select Relaxed mechanisms
Select No for different policy for subdomains
Select percentage of email 100
Click Create Record and your DMARC will be generated
Go to your DNS Management and click Add record
Select Type and Name (Required)
Copy the generated DMARC Record
And paste it in your Domain management and then click Save
Your DMARC Record will be saved in your Domain Management
After 48 hours click Refresh button in MailBluster
Your DMARC record is now Verified
Now you have successfully verified your domain in AWS from MailBluster.
A detailed video can also be found here: Simplify your sender management using MailBluster