Redirect Website at DNS level without redirecting mail (MX records)

[charliesasser]

I would like to redirect or forward an old domain without impacting email MX records. Since MX records also point to the old root domain, is there a way around this other than doing a redirect at the webhost level for the site only?

Note the old website will soon be shut down, but we want anyone using the old email domain to still go to the same location (Gsuite Basic) . If I do redirect at web host then I have a problem when he website goes away but I still own the domain.

Maybe I am missing something simple I hope.

[sdayman]

Here are instructions:

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[charliesasser]

This is a very good video but here is my concern as a novice DNS user.

• A record is “domainA.com” value=“xx.xxx.xxx.xxx” (IP) +proxied
• CNAME record is “mail” value=“domainA.com” +proxied
• CNAME recore is “www” value=“domainA.com” +proxied

All of the MX records are similar to
domainA.com value=“alt2.aspmx.I.google.com” DNS Only Not proxied
etc.

My concern is with the MX records being redirected.

Since the Page Rules only apply when Proxied, does that mean the page rules will not impact the MX and other SPF and DKIM records that are not proxied?

Should CNAME record for “mail” be DNS only and NOT proxied.

Thanks