MX records for 365 email with email forwarding from Cloudflare

[neuropathy5150]

Hello everyone,

I’d like to be able to use Microsoft 365 email, but I’m wondering if I’ll also be able to use Cloudflare email forwarding, or if I’d need to setup forwarding addresses (to different accounts than the 365 account) through 365 rather than Cloudflare?

I’m not sure what the MX records and priority would look like for this. I’m trying to research this to see what I would do exactly, but it’s not totally clear to me in this situation.

Any input is welcome.

Thank you

[fritex]

Greetings,

Thank you for asking.

If you need to send emails, I’d suggest you to use Microsoft 365 setup without Cloudflare Email Routing feature. Therefore, I believe you can also setup forwarders and alias emails at Microsoft 365 interface, if needed.

Regarding DNS records, I’d like to share a helpful post from my colleague here:

Changing name servers to cloudflare and Microsoft 365 records

SRV records cannot be proxied, and in this case the target should not be one of your own domains. Check Microsofts documentation here. Mine looks like this: [image] None of the Microsoft 365 records should be proxied, so need to be set DNS Only . Connect your DNS records at Cloudflare to Microsoft 365 - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Docs

More information about email related DNS record while using Cloudflare for your domain:

• Email undeliverable when using Cloudflare

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