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DNS setup for Cloudflare

5 min readAdd VoraMail’s DNS records in Cloudflare and avoid common proxy mistakes.

Cloudflare publishes DNS changes quickly, which makes verification fast. Keep the VoraMail setup wizard open to copy values.

Open DNS records

  1. Sign in to the Cloudflare dashboard and select your domain.
  2. Go to DNS → Records and use Add record for each record below.

Ownership TXT

  • Type: TXT
  • Name: _voramail-verify
  • Content: the voramail-verify=… value
  • TTL: Auto

MX

Delete any existing MX records for the root of your domain (for example Cloudflare Email Routing records), then add:

  • Type: MX · Name: @ · Mail server: mail.voramail.bulletplushosting.com · Priority: 10
If Email Routing is enabled for the domain, disable it first. Email Routing manages its own MX records and will conflict with VoraMail.

SPF, DKIM and DMARC

Add three TXT records:

  • Name @: the SPF value. Only one v=spf1 record is allowed per domain; merge with an existing one if needed.
  • Name set to the DKIM host from the wizard (ending in ._domainkey): the DKIM value.
  • Name _dmarc: the DMARC value.

TXT and MX records are never proxied in Cloudflare, so there is no orange-cloud setting to change for these records.

Verify

Click Verify DNS in VoraMail. On Cloudflare this often succeeds within a minute or two.

Troubleshooting

  • Ownership fails: make sure the name is _voramail-verify (Cloudflare shows it as _voramail-verify.yourdomain.com after saving, which is correct).
  • MX fails: confirm no other MX record exists and the mail server is exactly mail.voramail.bulletplushosting.com.

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