How to set up hosting on Heroku and email forwarders on a WHM (cPanel)?

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Published on 2013-06-28T21:24:10Z Indexed on 2013/06/28 22:22 UTC
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I'm using DNSimple for managing my records, hosting my site at Heroku and I want to use a Linux WHM (cPanel) for managing emails forwarding (DNSimple has that feature, but it's currently not working properly).

Hosting works, but I'm having a hard time getting emails to work. Here are my (pseudo-)records:

Type    Name                TTL    Points to
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ALIAS | mydomain.com      | 3600 | mydomain.herokuapp.com
CNAME | www.mydomain.com  | 3600 | mydomain.herokuapp.com
CNAME | mail.mydomain.com | 600  | <WHM server IP address>
MX    | mydomain.com      | 600  | <WHM server IP address>
NS    | mydomain.com      | 3600 | ns1.dnsimple.com
...   | ...               | ...  | ...
NS    | mydomain.com      | 3600 | ns4.dnsimple.com

There are two more records, SOA and TXT, generated by DNSimple, but I don't think those are relevant. When I add an A-record:

A | mydomain.com | 3600 | WHM server IP address

and change the mail CNAME and MX records to mydomain.com, emails start working, but then the hosting doesn't work anymore.

Is this possible to achieve?

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