I feel your pain!

On Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 2:49:06 PM UTC-6, ogg...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I registered my domain with Namecheap. Switching my app to GAE, I 
> moved by nameservers to the default Namecheap ones. Then I set up a 
> CNAME record so that the host name '@' refers to 'ghs.google.com'. 
> This worked great. Then, I wanted my email to work, so I went to set 
> up my MX records. I followed Google's instructions, and despite 
> waiting well over 48 hours, email did not work. 
>
> I emailed Namecheap support and they told me that it is impossible to 
> have a CNAME record for '@' and to have MX records for '@'. This is 
> unacceptable. 
>
> They said the ONLY thing to do was create a framed redirect from '@' 
> to the 'www' hostname, and then set up the CNAME on 'www' and MX 
> records on '@'. I do NOT want to access my site at http://www.example.com 
> and certainly do not want a framed redirect (what is this, 1999?). 
>
> Is there anyway to do this? Surely others have wanted to set up a GAE 
> app and Google email on the same domain... 
>
> If it is a problem with namecheap, I would transfer instantly to 
> godaddy or whomever this works properly with. 
>
> Thanks a lot!

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