DNS settings for your E-mail

Once you’ve added your own domain, you should also add the appropriate records to your domain’s DNS settings in order to avoid mail getting in the spam folder of your users.

In order to make sure that the mails for your forum do not end up in spam filters, you’ll need to do a few things:

Get your own domain

Make sure you use your own domain for the notification email setting in your forum.

Make sure your SPF and MX records are set up correctly

If you’re using a CNAME then this is done automatically.

However, if you are using Cloudflare or a more advanced or subfolder setup, then you might have to configure the SPF and MX records manually.

You should have two other records in your DNS:

Type: MX / Priority: 10 / Value: mx1.discourse.communiteq.com.

Type: TXT / Value: v=spf1 include:_spf.communiteq.com ?all . If you already have a TXT record with SPF information, you’ll need to add our servers to that record by adding include:_spf.communiteq.com in the record (before the last operator, which is usually ?all, ~all, or -all).