Set up email records

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​​ Receive email

If you only need to receive emails, Cloudflare offers Email Routing for free email forwarding to custom email addresses.

​​ Send and receive email

To send and receive emails from your domain, you need:

• An SMTP provider.
• To create two DNS records within Cloudflare.

To route emails through Cloudflare and to your mail server:

1. Get the IP address and MX record details from your SMTP provider (vendor-specific guidelines).

2. Add 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	DNS only

   API example

3. Add an MX record that points to that subdomain.

   Type	Name	Mail server	TTL
   MX	@	mail.example.com	Auto

   API example