I have a scenario where we have a member based subscription website that emails out alerts / updates like a forum but I also want to have the domain pointed to my own mailserver so I can create mailboxes for staff @domain / support @domain etc.
The problem is that due to the volume of mail traffic the site will be sending as it alerts / sends mail to users, it is better if I have the mail sent from the server it's hosted on or preferably Google Mail SMTP.
What I want to achieve is:
domain.com = MX records for my mailserver
mx.domain.com = MX records for Google Mail
The problem is I can't get it to work, I signed up to Google Apps with [email protected] and it will not verify even after adding an meta tag in index.html in the subdomain.
Register the "mx" domain as an A record first. You will have to "verify" your domain with Google via a TXT record or some other mechanism. I suspect your lack of A record for the subdomain is the issue.