Email Routing Issue - Requesting to delete a DNS Record Type

General Email Routing
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What is the name of the domain?

yeehawsnacks.com

What is the error number?

n/a

What is the error message?

There is no error message, just confused

What is the issue you’re encountering

I’m trying to create a custom email via email rerouting and it’s asking me to delete an Record Type (see image). I’m not technical so i’m not sure if I should delete this record type if it will mess it up as it is permenant

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

None at the moment. Trying to figure out the situation.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Email Rerouting steps provided by Cloudflare

Screenshot of the error

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I would say you should count that as being an unfortunate wording of the message, which could actually be improved.

Modifying an existing SPF record to also hold “include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net” (assuming your modifications won’t break the SPF record) will be sufficient.

  1. Are you still using MailerLite to send emails on your behalf?

If NOT, then “include:_spf.mlsend.com” should go away.

  1. The two mechanisms, “a” and “mx”, from your SPF are usually included as a result of following bad advice from organisations that should actually know better.
    OR, from the domain owner’s user’s misunderstanding of the SPF system.

  • If you choose to use Cloudflare in front of your website, on the naked domain, then “a” will become useless, and over-authorize IP addresses that it isn’t supposed to.

  • If you choose to use Cloudflare Email Routing, then “mx” will become useless, , and over-authorize IP addresses that it isn’t supposed to, as all IP addresses Cloudflare Email Routing uses, are already included with “include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net”.

  • In your current set up, neither “a” nor “mx” is doing anything good for you, and are actually contributing towards a defective SPF record.

I therefore suggest you to remove the “a” and “mx” mechanisms.

I will suggest you to choose one of the following two:

If you intend to use Cloudflare Email Routing, and you are still using MailerLite, set your SPF record to:

v=spf1 include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net include:_spf.mlsend.com -all

If you intend to use Cloudflare Email Routing, and you are NOT using MailerLite any more, set your SPF record to:

v=spf1 include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net -all

If there are any other email providers, that are sending emails on your behalf, that I’m not aware of, you will need to adjust these SPF records even further.

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