Email server issue.

iLearner_

• August 03, 2018 16:02

Hello, I have setup an email account named info@domain.com and added a forwarder to my email however I noticed the email server is somehow not even working as I tried sending an email to info@domain.com however email delivery system replied saying it was not possible to reach the mail server (and will retry). According to my host its a cloydflare issue (as I am using cloudflare) and they (- removed -) Asked me to give them my cloudflare credentials however I declined and showed them my records on cloudflare and they asked me to change a record (from CNAME pointing to host name server (mail) to MX pointing to an IP they gave me) however its still not working somehow. What could be causing it? (Side note: I am not hosting cpanel, I am using a webhost but they're unable to help) Screenshot below show the changed made.

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  sparek-3

  • August 03, 2018 21:46

  I can't make heads or tails out of these images. But... If they are telling you to set your MX records to an IP address, that is hilariously wrong. If they are telling you to set your MX records to mail.%yourdomain.tld% and then setting mail.%yourdomain.tld% to a CNAME record, that is also wrong. MX records have to be set to a hostname. MX records have to be set to a hostname that uses an A record. You need to set mail.%yourdomain.tld% to an A record that points to your server's IP address (or the IP address of the server that will be handling mail for the domain name). Then you need to set the MX record for %yourdomain.tld% to mail.%yourdomain.tld%

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  iLearner_

  • August 04, 2018 07:11

  Is this correct? If not please tell what do I have to change, if it is, sadly the issue still remains.

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  Infopro

  • August 04, 2018 10:29

  The Cloudflare docs should be of some use: My email or mail stopped working. What should I do?

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  iLearner_

  • August 04, 2018 13:43

  @Infopro That's exactly what I have right now, look the image attached above.

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  Infopro

  • August 04, 2018 14:05

  Actually I don't think you do. Look at the top of your image. The main quote on that link I posted says: [QUOTE] Make sure your mail records are grey-clouded on Cloudflare!
  

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  iLearner_

  • August 04, 2018 14:52

  Oh sorry... Just changed that. Is it correct now?

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  sparek-3

  • August 04, 2018 16:04

  I think where it says MX record, it should say: mail handled by mail.%yourdomain.tld% Although, I'm not really sure if you have mail.%yourdomain.tld% resolving correctly. That IP address does not appear to be accepting SMTP connections. Or maybe the domain name in your images isn't your real domain name. I'm purposefully referring to it as %yourdomain.tld% in case your domain name needs to be redacted.

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  iLearner_

  • August 04, 2018 16:14

  That's my real domain name @sparek-3 and when I write mail.example.com it automatically turns into mail. The IP I am using is my host's name server IP.

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  iLearner_

  • August 04, 2018 16:18

  Also I tried resolving hostname mail.example.com: Lookup Hostname: mail.example.com Lookup IPv4 Address: 185.61.xxx..xx

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  sparek-3

  • August 04, 2018 16:21

  You probably need to use the IP address of your actual account, not the nameservers. If you aren't using your host's nameservers, then all of the information related to their nameservers is irrelevant to you. The MX record still doesn't look right. Maybe you need to enter it as: mail.%yourdomain.tld%. Note the period at the end. I really don't know how CloudFlare works in regards to this.

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  cPanelLauren

  • August 06, 2018 15:23

  I agree with @sparek-3 and I can confirm that my own CloudFlare account shows that mail is handled by mail.mydomain.tld when I add the MX record through the CloudFlare UI

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