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I have a SAAS CMS/membership & events system.

To have emails come out of that system with my domain name attached, I need to set as follows:

 1) CNAME
 Name: www
 Value: sites.memberlodge.org

 2) A record
 Name: @
 Value: 66.29.208.61

 3) TXT record
 Name: @
 Value: v=spf1 mx include:memberlodge.org ~all (plus some Google Apps stuff - all working fine)

How do I set step 2?  Putting '@' into the name field is not allowed.

Currently I am using '*' in the name field, but that doesn't work: the system says that the IP address set for the basic domain (without any prefix) is not as specified above.

For your purposes, setting the domain record as an A record and forwarding the www subdomain may work.  

Currently you have your domain record forwarding to a site.  Instead, change the Record Type to an A record and under IP Address or Target Host add the appropriate IP address.  

Now in the subdomain record for www, you currently have an A record pointing to an IP address.  Change this to forward instead and in the IP Address or Target Host field put the appropriate website.

By making these changes, you will not have to create a separate '@' subdomain record.  

Let us know if this helps.