I’ve setup the Cloudflare servers so I get reliable SSL for my web site, but I can’t seem to get mail working correctly.
I’ve created an A record for mail.example.com which points to the IP address of my mail server. So, Type=A, Name=mail, Content=IP Address of mail server, TTL=30, Proxy Status=DNS only.
I have an MX record defined: Type=MX, Name=example.com, Content=mail.example.com, Priority=10, TTL=30, Proxy Status=DNS only.
I also have a pair of CNAMEs for the web site defined:
Type Name Content Proxy Status
CNAME example.com obior.com Proxied
CNAME www obior.com Proxied
For the first CNAME, when I created it, I entered an “@”, which Cloudflare changed to the base name and TLD extension.
When I use various tools (tools.dnsstuff.com and MxToolbox.com) to check the domain, I don’t get either A record for the mail server or the MX record information.
Can someone suggest what to try to resolve this? I’ve deleted and recreated both the A & MX records multiple times, but that hasn’t helped.
I’ve done lots of DNS work previously and never had an issue until now. From my experience, everything is defined correctly, though, I would really like to have an SOA serial number so I could see that an update has occurred.
I’m at the point of Nuke & Pave on this, but don’t see a clean way to start from scratch.
Thanks for your help on this.
Cheers,
Jon