Doom9.org emails never arrives

#1

I tried to change my e-mail registered at the forum of doom9.org website, but the confirmation e-mail never arrives. I change back to my e-mail address at Gsuite, and the confirmation e-mail arrives instantly. I checked the e-mail that arrived at the Gsuite address, and it seems that it has SPF errors.

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Subject: Action Required to Verify Email Change for Doom9's Forum
#2

I do indeed see the rejections on the Echo server. The emails were sent to username@echo.mxrouting.net and not @ a customer domain. I can’t imagine why they’d send to an address like that unless it was given to them, but surely you wouldn’t input that?

#3

Of course, I use the e-mail in my profile. I have no idea why that happens.

#4

Ok, I got it already, I just removed the CNAME record that links the e-mail domain to echo.mxrouting.net and everything works now. Damn, I am not supposed to do that?

#5

There are different conditions where a CNAME record to the server makes sense and when it doesn’t. For custom mail and webmail subdomains it makes sense. Example: Custom Webmail/POP/IMAP/SMTP Domain – MXroute (mxroutehelp.com)

But echo.mxrouting.net is our domain, our server that you point yours to so that our server handles email for your domain. So for example, my domain is mxroute.com, and it is hosted on arrow.mxrouting.net (just like echo, different physical server). People don’t email me at jarland@arrow.mxrouting.net, they email me at jarland@mxroute.com, because mxroute.com’s MX records point to arrow.mxrouting.net, which means that arrow.mxrouting.net handles the email for mxroute.com.