Cloudflare Emailing Issues
I've just bought a domain the other day, set it up through cloudflare dns.
Email handled by the email routing tab so all the mx records are set properly, dmarc set, spf is correct. Sending a email with my gmail works, email from twitter works. But sites like BSKY, Docker. Aren't sending me emails. Any ideas? Here's my DNS records
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I have a catch all setup
When you say they aren't sending you emails? Assuming those 4 in the dashboard were those failed email.
Have you checked your spam, validated your destination address does receive mail?
Those 4 are properly sent. 3 of those are from me sending email through gmail to it. the top one is a twitter / x verification email.
BSky & Docker aren't hitting the cloudflare what so ever, I've tried to request verification like 15 times by now and get nothing.
Creation Date: 2025-08-12T02:54:59Z your domain is super new as you said. There could be a chance their dns only refreshes at longer periods? It's strange that it's not everything.Yeah just bought a day ago
technically.. earlier today.
It's 19:13 UTC... on the 12th of Aug.. right now
Ah
That's the only thing that gives me pause. Just how new it is. And it's a couple sources not everything. It could just be DNS refreshes on their end. Odd for sure
Wish these sites would give me more info on if the email actually hit somewhere. But no, they just return "Email Sent!"
I could input a random domain with no mx record and they'll still tell me it was sent 🙄
Welp guess it's just a waiting game
Probably 24-48hr before most sites recheck dns
I just sort of dug around. Docker looks like they do google workspaces and bluesky uses outlook.
That's their likely corp email. But, their transactional email like password resets.. might use a third party like SES or Twilio. So maybe that's what they have in common.. this third party transactional mailhost.
I'm curious how this turns out 🙂
🫡 I wonder if services like that let you request dns rechecks
It also could be a security measure? I mean you're attempting transactions <24 hours after domain purchase. Even if you setup outbound email correctly, you will have some ESP's that spam/discard your mail until the domain matures.
Handful of hours later, docker and bluesky still dont send emails.
And I've tried verifying my domain through bsky for my handle and it cant even find my dns records
:NotLikeThis:
omg after mashing the button it finally worked
still not getting emails from either though
I've just rechecked if I'm on any blacklists and I'm actually on SEM-URIRED so there's that.. "Domain has been seen in the first few message of a large spam campaign" I requested a removal
I was thinking about this earlier was curious if you had resolution. It's interesting. I'm still curious lol I wonder if it has something to do with the domain age.
So, I just looked it looks like docker's transactional emails come from
notify.docker.com. 300 IN MX 10 mxb.mailgun.org
Which is even more perplexing because I thought there was some partnership with email routing at the beginning.You call this DNS settings?
no need to necro post mate. and yes. thats dns management settings..