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Managing MX records at a garage
21 Mar 2026
How a garage deals with MX records — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a contact form with nine fields. The MX records check fails for a garage.
We underestimated how long MX records migration would take for a garage. The estimate was two hours; the reality was a full day because a contact form with nine fields had never been documented.
We got a call from a garage on a Friday. Their MX records had expired overnight, and the booking page was returning errors to every visitor.
We quoted a garage half what the other firm did because we did not propose features they did not ask for. The scope was MX records, not a rebrand.
We do not start with a platform when handling MX records. We write down who types what, who gets the mail, and what must not get lost. That list is always shorter than a vendor pitch deck.
Related work on this site follows the same principle: one job, a real inbox, no theatre. a garage did not need four analytics dashboards to know that Tuesdays are slow.
Managed hosting handles MX records automatically — until it does not. a garage learned this when their provider migrated servers and a contact form with nine fields disappeared silently.
We have seen agencies charge a garage for a yearly MX records audit that consists of a screenshot and a paragraph. Ours is a working config file they can apply themselves.
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