Sending email but not receiving - GoDaddy VPS server and Cloudflare

Question

I have cloudflared my site which is hosted on GoDaddy.

I also set up an email for this site:

[email protected]

It sends email fine.

No incoming email is received.

On Cloudflare it says: Add an MX record for your root domain so that mail can reach @trackpython.com addresses.

Update: I have added the correct MX record on CLOUDFLARE - but still no luck.

What else do I need to do to resolve the problem of no incoming email.

The GoDaddy CAdvisor says the "email routing" is wrong...but offers no further help.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I hope this helps someone:

There were two things that I needed to do to get this working:

1. on Godaddy - email routing: I had to change this to "LOCAL MAIL EXCHANGER"

2. Cloudflare: I had to set up two records on CLOUDFLARE in order for this to work

#1

Record type: MX domainname.com mail.domainname.com 1 hr DNS only

#2

Record Type: A mail xx.xxx.xxx.xx (IP ADDRESS of SERVER) Auto Proxied

Worked!

Prior to this, as mentioned in the question, I had set up the DNS in GoDaddy's WHM (set the name servers) and the created an A record pointing to the server in the DNS Management tab for the domain.