# Trouble-shooting general 530 SMTP errors (email receiving issues)
If you use a custom domain with MailSlurp and have periodic failures or 530 error messages from major providers like Yahoo and Gmail the MX records for your domain are likely misconfigured.
# Investigating causes
Most email receiving issues that occur on MailSlurp are due to misconfigured domain name records.
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A 530 failed to deliver error typically means you are using the private email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com MX record. This record is not for public use and will fail. Please use only the 10 inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com record for your domain and no other MX records.
First check the DNS records on your domain. Using a terminal and dig you can fetch the records like so:
> dig mailslurp.fyi mx
; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> mailslurp.fyi mx
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63450
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mailslurp.fyi. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
mailslurp.fyi. 600 IN MX 10 inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
;; Query time: 35 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Mi Jan 06 18:30:15 CET 2021
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94
You should have one MX record only with the value:
name: your-domain.com.
ttl: 600
type: MX (IN)
record: 10 inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.`
Note period at the end of the name and record is required (if your DNS settings allow it) and is valid for DNS server names and records.
# Additional causes
If you create inboxes that use a subdomain your account must be manually configured. Please contact support in this case.
