Unable to get CNAME outbound.intercom authenticate

Hi ​@ORX Travel Paul here from support engineering to help you out 🤝 

I verified your DKIM records are fine and isolated the issue to the Return-Path (outbound) CNAME not resolving to the expected target.

What you need to change:

1. In your DNS provider, edit the CNAME for the outbound/return-path host shown in Intercom (found at Settings → Outbound → Email → Sending → Authenticate domain).

2. Ensure the Host/Name field is exactly the host shown (do not add your domain again if your DNS UI auto-appends it).

3. Set the Value/Target to exactly the target shown in Intercom.

4. If you use Cloudflare, set the record to DNS only (grey cloud).

5. Save, wait a few minutes, then click Recheck DNS in Intercom on the same page.

Being in a dev or test workspace doesn’t block domain verification. DNS must be public and accurate; once fixed, verification passes within minutes.

Hi Paul,

This is given me as the record i need to put in, which i already did.

CNAME: outbound.intercom
Value:

However, the status of the record is still `Unauthenticated`.  Am i missing something here? I already tried removing the custom domain and add it back in again. It is the same result, only the `outbound.intercom` is `Unauthenticated`.