activating emails (making them work) in VPS system view

[Spikerok]

I have a Cloud VPS with 1and1 and Plesk is installed on it.

I happen to have a VPS view that doesn't include DNS functionality for the domains.

So, i have added domain to the system, create an email address... because i dont see on how i can manage DNS settings I have set up cloudflare and pointed domain to the cloudflare and cloudflare is pointing to server.

so I have email: [email protected]

on cloudflare i have:
A domain @ IP
A www @ IP
CNAME mail @ domain
MX 10 mail.domain

in plesk i have set up an alias, mail.domain for domain, that has access to email.

I go to the network-tools.com to look up [email protected]:
[Resolving mail.domain...]
[Contacting mail.domain [IP]...]
[Timed out]

Please advice on how I can resolve this problem.

 

[Spikerok]

bump... still waiting

 

[Faris Raouf]

Try this from your PC:
ping mail.domain (does it return the correct address?)
telnet mail.domain 25 (does it connect or not?)

Also try it from your server.

It may be that port 25 is blocked, or that the IP is wrong....
Oh, also CNAME for MX record is not recommended. I suggest you create an A record instead.

ALSO make sure DNS for the domain is switched off in Plesk.

 

[Spikerok]

Happen to be a blocked port, thought that Plesk would have it unblocked by default

Here is command line to add port to iptables:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT