How to make a domain receiving email behind cloudflare?

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I have a web server hosting multiple domains (centos + postfix + dovcot), one of my domain its dns is hosted on cloudflare (ie. abcd.com), but when I use gmail to send email to a user@abcd.com, user@abcd.com will not be able to receive the email. Here is the MX record I set in cloudflare:

Type   Name   Value                                       TTL          Active
mx     mail   handled by mail.abcd.com with priority10    Automatic     
cname  mail   is an alias of abcd.com                     Automatic    grey cloud

Any knows how can I make the domain receive the emails?

Michael Hampton · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-09T15:49:27.610

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You have two distinct errors in your configuration:

The MX record should be for your domain, not for a subdomain.
An MX record should not point to a CNAME. Point it to a record with an IP address.

An example of a working domain:

edited Feb 09 '16 at 15:49

answered Nov 08 '14 at 15:02

Michael Hampton

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i tested your config, but the email only can be received when the domain name(not mail) A record is in grey cloud (ie first row of your pic) , so it stills blocking my email – hkguile Nov 08 '14 at 15:36
It's supposed to be a gray cloud. – Michael Hampton Nov 08 '14 at 15:39
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but your pic yes-www.org A record is in orange – hkguile Nov 08 '14 at 15:41
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But that is _not_ the record that the MX record points to! – Michael Hampton Nov 08 '14 at 15:45
@hkguile Please do yourself a favour and find out what grey and orange clouds mean. mail is supposed to be grey because this means cloudflare does NOT CACHE THE CONTENT - it is not acting as a SMTP buffer. It does so for all websites (which is what a CDN does). – TomTom Feb 09 '16 at 15:53
@TomTom I think he figured it out by now. I'm just editing some of my old stuff. – Michael Hampton Feb 09 '16 at 15:57

How to make a domain receiving email behind cloudflare?

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