Email Domain Authentication in Cloudflare

Learn how to protect your emails from scammers and spammers.

We offer three options for domain authentication – Full, Full+ and Subdomain – for each of the below DNS (Domain Name System).

Read more on these options.

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Note

In each record below, Name uses your own domain or subdomain (the exact value depends on which authentication option you're setting up), while Target/Content/Mail server use a fixed value that's the same for every account: dkim.esputnik.com, spf2.esputnik.com, or trap.esputnik.com.

Log in to your Cloudflare account, go to the DNS app and click Add record.

Full

To verify your domain within the Full option, add the following records:

CNAME

  1. In Type, select CNAME.
  2. In Name, enter esputnik._domainkey
  3. In Target, enter dkim.esputnik.com.
  4. Click Save.

TXT

  1. In Type, select TXT.
  2. In Name, enter your domain name.
  3. In TTL, select 1 hour.
  4. In Content, enter v=spf1 include:spf2.esputnik.com ~all
  5. Click Save.

Full+

To verify your domain within the Full+ option, add the following records:

TXT

  1. In Type, select TXT.
  2. In Name, enter your subdomain name.
  3. In TTL, select 1 hour.
  4. In Content, enter v=spf1 include:spf2.esputnik.com ~all
  5. Click Save.

MX

  1. In Type, select MX.
  2. In Name, enter your subdomain name.
  3. In Mail server, enter trap.esputnik.com.
  4. In TTL, select 1 hour.
  5. In Priority, select 10.
  6. Click Save.

The ready record would look as follows:

Subdomain

The ready record within the Subdomain option would look as follows:


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