Email forwarders stopped working, updated spf record

I’m trying to create a new topic, but the forum app is complaining about having more than 4 links in my post, despite me having none… Posting a shorter topic just to test.

I have been using Cloudflare’s email forwarding features for many years. For several domains, I have several email accounts forwarded to my Gmail address. About two weeks ago, I gradually stopped receiving emails sent to all these emails.

I was able to fix the problem by adding an ip4 entry to my spf DNS record.

That is, I now have a DNS record of type TXT with the following value:
v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net ip4:MYSERVERIP ip4:104.30.8.0/24 ~all

I’m not a DNS expert, so I’m not sure whether the change above is the right fix or a permanent one, but it did clear my (very annoying) problem and I was not able to find any information about it in the Cloudflare docs. I posted this in case anyone finds this information useful and I apologize if the topic has already been discussed somewhere else.

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