I'm doing my best to follow GSuite's out of date instructions for routing emails to Gmail via a AWS Route 53 hosted zone (i.e. domain). Here are the outdated instructions:
I set the Values as instructed:
And I see:
Error occurred
Bad request.
(InvalidChangeBatch 400: MXRRDATANotTwoFields (MX record doesn't have 2 fields) encountered with '')
So it will not allow me to create the records.
I had this problem with the new AWS console, but it turns out the problem was me. I had not read the instructions carefully enough.
There needed to be a numeric value (not explained) before the domain name or ip address in the value input. When I added the number, this worked for me in the new console.
I was able to reproduce this exact scenario when I used the new AWS Route 53 interface.
To resolve it I selected the use the old console. link from the top.
I then pasted the values below and it worked.
1 aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
For now use the old console for doing this would be my suggestion.
There's something wrong with the new Route 53 console. I tried the exact same things in the old console and it worked immediately.
I hope AWS fix this soon. For anyone experiencing this issue in the mean time, try simply reverting to the old console by clicking the link on the left hand panel:
So actually what MX record consists of is a priority and a host. The smaller the number the higher the priority. You can look it up on google as well.
It appears that the cause of the problem is the nature or length of the whitespace between the priority and the host on each line. Reducing all this whitespace - on each line - down to a single space resolved the matter for me.
