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Essential DNS records for sending and tracking emails TXT record. A TXT record is used to store text data in the DNS database. ... MX record. A DNS MX (Mail Exchange) record directs mail to a mail server by specifying which server is responsible for accepting messages on behalf of a domain. ... CNAME record.

To route emails to your mail server, you need to create two DNS records within Cloudflare: An A or AAAA record for your mail subdomain that points to the IP address of your mail server. An MX record that points to that subdomain.

Each domain needs to have a record for the root domain. Otherwise your domain won't resolve, and accessing the URL in the browser will return a resolution error. In most cases, this configuration is an A record pointing to the IP where your site is hosted.

MX records are essentially a standard part of email delivery. They're technically not required for a sender domain, but due to spam, receiving servers may reject emails from a domain without an MX record. In short, if you want to successfully deliver emails, you need an MX record.

An A record is a host record. An A record doesn't tell email servers where to send email, even if the A record is mail.yourdomain.com. You need an MX record to tell email servers where to send email for your domain. Note that your MX can "point" to any A record.

"MX? Record Your MX record. tells other mailservers the name of the server on the Internet to send mail to for your domain.

We'll need to create MX records manually: Log in to Cloudflare. Go to Domain list and choose your domain. Go to DNS. Click on "Add new record" Choose MX record. Put @ in "Name" Put ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM in Mail Server. Choose priority = 1.

And when a domain does not have an A record, the domain name will not work and cannot be used to access any other website or server. To ensure that your website works correctly across the entire internet, you want to make sure that you are using an A Record.