Making sure Gmail works after setting up SSL with Cloudflare

[jasondean78]

Hi folks, I’ve just set up an SSL certificate with Cloudflare as my website was getting tagged as not secure. I have an email address hosted with the same provider as my website and mail gets forwarded to my Gmail. As is my understanding, after Cloudflare successfully imported records over, I had to set up an MX record in the DNS section of my Cloudflare dashboard for mail but Gmail is telling me that it can’t connect (I didn’t make any changes to the Gmail settings).

The confusing part is that I am receiving emails into my Gmail inbox that were successfully forwarded from the domain name inbox, despite Gmail telling me that it is failing to connect.

Any thoughts?

[sandro]

@jasondean78

Any thoughts?

You currently have a security issue.

Why you should choose Full Strict, and only Full Strict

Unencrypted & unverified connections Imagine you open Paypal and suddenly get that warning [image] Would you continue? Probably not. For decades leaders in IT security have advocated that people upgrade their sites from unencrypted HTTP to secure HTTPS. And for a reason, everything you send via an HTTP connection is sent in plain text and can be intercepted at any point between you and the server. Equally, you’d probably not proceed if you got such a warning, right? [image] That’s when th…

[jasondean78]

Can you elaborate?

[sandro]

What’s your current encryption mode on Cloudflare?

[jasondean78]

The SSL is set to FULL

[sandro]

That’s what the article addresses. It should be Full Strict.

[jasondean78]

Just so I understand you, changing it to FULL STRICT will resolve the issue with Gmail?

[sandro]

Not necessarily, but it’s a necessary step towards a secure site. Once that is done, we can look at the other issues.