Automatic DNS setup

Setting up email means adding a dozen or so DNS records. If your domain’s DNS is managed by a supported provider, you can skip the copy-paste entirely: give Faivelo an API key when you add your domain, and every record is created for you in seconds.

Faivelo detects your provider automatically from your domain’s nameservers, so the right instructions appear during setup. Supported providers: Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Route 53 (AWS), and Hostinger.

What Faivelo injects

The complete record set your domain needs: the MX record that routes incoming mail, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records that authenticate your outbound mail, plus records for secure transport (MTA-STS, TLS reporting) and mail-client auto-configuration. The full list, with values, is in Manual DNS records.

If a conflicting record already exists (say, an old MX record from a previous email provider), Faivelo replaces it so your new setup works immediately.

Your key is stored encrypted

Registrar API keys are encrypted at rest. Faivelo uses the key only to manage DNS records for the domains you connect. You can also re-push records later with the Re-apply DNS records button on your domain’s DNS page.

Cloudflare

1. Go to Cloudflare API tokens and click Create Token.
2. Use the Edit zone DNS template and give it access to your domain’s zone.
3. Copy the token and paste it into Faivelo.

Faivelo also disables Cloudflare Email Routing on the zone if it’s active, since it injects its own MX records that would conflict with yours.

Caution

Cloudflare’s orange-cloud proxy must stay off for mail records. Faivelo creates them DNS-only, but if you edit them later, keep the proxy disabled — see Troubleshooting DNS.

GoDaddy

1. Go to GoDaddy Developer Keys and create a production API key.
2. Copy both the Key and the Secret.
3. Paste them into Faivelo as one value in the format key:secret.

Namecheap

1. Go to Namecheap API access and enable API access on your account.
2. Copy your API Key.
3. Paste it into Faivelo as apiKey:username, where username is your Namecheap account username.

Route 53 (AWS)

1. In the AWS IAM console, create an IAM user with Route 53 permissions (it needs to list hosted zones and change record sets).
2. Create an access key for that user.
3. Paste it into Faivelo as accessKeyId:secretAccessKey.

Your domain must have a hosted zone in the same AWS account the key belongs to.

Hostinger

1. Go to the Hostinger API page in hPanel and generate an API token.
2. Copy the token and paste it into Faivelo.

Hostinger domains are detected whether they use Hostinger’s standard nameservers (dns-parking.com) or premium DNS.

Prefer not to share a key?

That’s fine — leave the field blank and add the records yourself. Faivelo shows you exactly what to create, with one-click copy for every value. See Manual DNS records.

Next steps

Once the records are pushed, verification usually completes within a couple of minutes — see Domain verification.