Step by Step 2024 Email Guide for Digital Ocean

Follow our step by step email setup guide for Digital Ocean and setup email forwarding in minutes.

Written by

Forward Email Team

Published

7/8/24

Time to read

Less than 5 minutes

Step 1

Go to Digital Ocean → log in → DNS settings
→ scroll down to Step 2

Not Completed

Add these records to yourdomain.com: and click Verify

Name	Type	Priority	Value
@	MX	`10`	`mx1.forwardemail.net`
@	MX	`10`	`mx2.forwardemail.net`
@	TXT	None	`forward-email=user@gmail.com`

Need a TTL value? Make it as close to 3600 (60 minutes) as possible.

Need to configure more aliases on the free plan?
See Options A to G in our FAQ