Check your MX/SPF/TXT Records

It started working shortly after I made this post, which was 30+ hours after I made the changes.

In Cloudflare you need to ensure your settings for the SPF record are configured as a TXT record "v=spf1 redirect=icloud.com" and for your CNAME entry you must make sure it is set to DNS only. There is a DNS Proxy toggle button you must disable.

It seems I did not redact enough information in my previous post, I suspect that was automated. Either way, the SPF needs to be a TXT record, you can't create an SPF record that is a redirector, so you'll make a TXT record with @ (which will rename itself to the domain you're configuring in the list view) and the content is "v=spf1 redirect=icloud.com" with those quotes, this will tell anything checking SPF records to look at icloud.com's records instead. It *should* work without the quotes too, but that's what I did. The CNAME field has the ability to proxy DNS through Cloudflare's system. You cannot leave that enabled and have this work. This is how that button should look.

Hey Ryan,

Attached is a screenshot with my information. The DKIM key field is cut off due to how the field works, but it's "***domain.com.at.icloudmailadmin.com" without the quotes. If you add @ instead of yourdomain.com in any of these records it will just replace the entry but it fundamentally works the same as the target is the root domain. The same goes for trailing periods at the end of your MX records. I tried both 0 and 10 for the priority on the MX records, contrary to what the Cloudflare article says, I believe 10 might actually be a value that is verified in this process.

What I ended up doing was restarting the process to create a new domain verification key, inputting it and then waiting 30 minutes. On the first attempt, I had set everything up ahead of time and made the DNS records then went to bed, then halfway through the next day, I decided to finish the process. Not sure if there's something on the iCloud side of things that timed out or if there was something else going on but my second attempt went off without a hitch.

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