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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 2:41 PM

Email Connection Refused

While most of my email is received normally, at least one sender consistently receives the following when sending to [anyone]@sunsetbuilderssupply.com:

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Deferred: Connection refused by _dc-mx.e24b260c6872.sunsetbuilderssupply.com.

Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours

Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

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The sender is [name withheld]@emeryjensen.com.

Email from [name withheld]@benjaminmoore.com also is not received at sunsetbuilderssupply.com, although I do not have an error message in that case. It may only be coincidence, but both emeryjensen.com and benjaminmoore.com use the domain registrar networksolutions.com and I can find no other correspondents whose mail gets through with that domain registrar.

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10 months ago

Hello, 

The first step is to make sure your email DNS is correct. Since you have your nameservers pointing to Cloudflare, I cannot check this for you. Please log into your Cloudflare account and make sure you have all of the DNS from this article:

 

‎DNS Records for Homestead Email | Homestead Community

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10 months ago

I should have put that in the original post. Yes, I have checked and all DNS records are correct.

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10 months ago

I may have solved the problem. Looking at the DNS records again, the A records for MX were proxied by Cloudflare. I changed the setting from Proxied to DNS Only and a few minutes later, several previously undelivered emails from emeryjensen.com came through to multiple @sunsetbuilderssupply.com addresses. I will continue to monitor but assume the problem is fixed unless I post otherwise. I have no idea why the proxy was apparently blocking only one or a small number of sending domains, while working fine for everyone else.

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10 months ago

Previously undelivered mail from BenjaminMoore.com also arrived within a few minutes of changing from Proxied to DNS Only.