👨‍🏫Adding a new dedicated IP to a customer account

This is a draft which is currently just a checklist, it will be fleshed out with screenshots and more details soon. It's here in case it's useful to someone in the meantime.

Each new dedicated IP using Velocity MTA has to go through the same steps:

1) Add IP to velocity-install/ipaddresses on the VPS and run ./restart.sh

2) Add PTR record with hosting provider that will match the A record for the header domain

3) Add A record for the IP header subdomain in DNS hosting provider (Cloudflare etc) e.g. mta.domain.com

4) Add A record for the IP link subdomain which goes to the same IP, so same new IP is the sender IP, header A record, PTR record, link domain A record e.g. link.domain.com

5) Add domain to the DKIM list in the emaildelivery.com backend MTA -> Velocity MTA Server -> DKIM tab

6) Copy the newly generated DKIM record from that page into the DNS hosting provider so, if new ip is 1.2.3.4 then:

header: mta.domain.com -> 1.2.3.4link: link.domain.com -> 1.2.3.4PTR: 1.2.3.4 -> mta.domain.com DKIM TXT record: dkim._domainkey.mta.domain.com

7) Create SPF record and add it to the DNS hosting provider (Use ChatGPT or an online SPF generator to generate the TXT record format)

8) Create DMARC record and add it to the DNS hosting provider (again use ChatGPT or a generator)

9) Edit the MTA server in the emaildelivery.com backend MTA -> Velocity MTA Server

10) Add new IP under sender IP, add the header A record under header domain, add the link domain A record under the link domain

11) Duplicate the MTA policy for another IP in the emaildelivery.com backend MTA -> MTA Delivery Policies

12) Edit the new duplicated policy, flip the server page, change the dropdown to edit per-ip, click the edit pencil, uncheck all other IPs, check the new IP

13) Save the MTA policy and click publish on the action button

14) Duplicate a warmup schedule and delete all other IPs out of it and add the new IP to it

15) Create a new postal route, name it after the full header domain with subdomain, select the new MTA policy you just created for 'Using Delivery Connection'

16) Add the new postal route to the customer you want to have this IP