Hello,
I need help setting up email proper in my ghost site. I have it set up in a way (added DNS entries and such) that email go out to all recipients. They can subscribe, etc. All fine.
Ghost is self hosted. DNS is which Cloudflare.
However … if a subscriber tries to answer an email which I did sent out to … his email is reaching nowhere and gets rejected.
Can someone point me in the right direction to get this going?
Regards
Ralf
Ghost doesn’t handle inbound email.
Since you’re already using Cloudflare, take a look at their free email forwarding. You can have email sent to any existing inbox. I use it with Gmail. Works great.
Edit: Seems the MX entries are only for receiving … thus not needed by mailgun. I deleted them. I can see the forward in the CloudFlare console … however (yet) not received on the gmail. Lets see.
Edit 2: Sending from the gmail which I put as the forwarding adress … did not work. I now used another email adress as a sender … and it works flawlessly.
Thanks for the fast response. If I try … cloudflare says I have conflicting DNS entries which will be deleted. I thought I need those to send the newsletter via Mailgun.
We are talking about two MX entries to mxb/mxa.eu.mailgun.org and a TXT entry “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.perfora.net include:_spf-eu.ionos.com ~all” which should be set instead to “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.perfora.net include:_spf-eu.ionos.com ~all”.
I fear I break the mailgun sending doing as suggested.
Cloudflare and/or gmail do some deduplication. If you send email to yourself, you probably won’t see it.
If you want to send from your gmail but use your custom email address, see these directions: