Cloudflare MX Records

Cloudflare MX Records

Follow these steps to setup mx records in your Cloudflare account.
Set up email records
There are two reasons to set up email records for your domain: to make sure email reaches your mail server and to prevent other email senders from spoofing your domain.
​​Add MX records
To route emails to your mail server, you need to create two DNS records within Cloudflare:
  • 1.

    An A or AAAA record for your mail subdomain that points to the IP address of your mail server.
    Type
    Name
    IPv4 address
    Proxy status
    A
    mail
    192.0.2.1
    Proxied
  • 2.

    An MX record that points to that subdomain.
    Type
    Name
    Mail server
    TTL
    MX
    @
    mail.example.com
    Auto
​​Configure email security records
To set up email security records:

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