Cloudflare + PTR (rDNS) Settings Compatibly

[JLX89]

Hello All!
We're using Cloudflare for DNS for our Cloudron Server on example.tld and the mail server is setup on example.tld. My understanding is that if you have the Cloudflare Proxy enabled on example.tld, users won't be able to connect to the mail server. The workaround in the past I found was to move the mail server to mail.example.tld and turn the proxy off for that subdomain.

1. Does anyone know if there is a way around this and enable proxying on example.tld with the mail server at the same location?
2. We are using Vultr for the VPS, so rDNS needs to be setup to reflect the server host (EX: example.tld), if pushing the mail server to mail.example.tld, the rDNS would need to be updated to that.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! If I wasn't clear on the questions, I apologize in advance -- it's been a hell of a week and I probably need more coffee.

Thank you!

[girish]

@JLX89 said in Cloudflare + PTR (rDNS) Settings Compatibly:

Does anyone know if there is a way around this and enable proxying on example.tld with the mail server at the same location?

AFAIK, this is not possible since Cloudflare does not support proxying mail.

We are using Vultr for the VPS, so rDNS needs to be setup to reflect the server host (EX: example.tld), if pushing the mail server to mail.example.tld, the rDNS would need to be updated to that.

Correct. You have to set the rDNS to the name of the mail server in Vultr.