EDIT: Some people say Cloudflare drops emails. If you want to be safe, use forwardemail.net. Using it on my domains now as a replacement for Cloudflare and it's working fine with the added benefit of being able to send email as another email (using gmail's smtp servers) instead of just receive.
Cloudflare is great, but just as a heads up...I recently moved everything away from CF because they don't have any controls over the security measures they use to allow incoming email.
I was missing a ton of legitimate customer emails because their email service wasn't complying fully to CF's email security standards. 😔
@smitmartijn interesting, good to know. I haven't seen any of those issues from my own customers - do you know what kind of email content triggered the firewall on Cloudflare's end?
It's not about content, more about email servers not having the proper SPF, reverse DNS, or DKIM configurations. Sometimes only 1 is missing from a setup, which is enough for CF to bounce the emails.
@smitmartijn set up forwardemail.net - really good service, thanks for the advice. The free plan even lets you send email as another email address using gmail's smtp servers (did not know this was possible) which is amazing. Switched over my support email to this service and it's working great
Look at Cloudflare's email service - it's free if all you're trying to do is redirect [email protected] -> [email protected] or similar
EDIT: Some people say Cloudflare drops emails. If you want to be safe, use forwardemail.net. Using it on my domains now as a replacement for Cloudflare and it's working fine with the added benefit of being able to send email as another email (using gmail's smtp servers) instead of just receive.
That's a great alternative too @ben
Cloudflare is great, but just as a heads up...I recently moved everything away from CF because they don't have any controls over the security measures they use to allow incoming email.
I was missing a ton of legitimate customer emails because their email service wasn't complying fully to CF's email security standards. 😔
+1 for forwardemails.net
@smitmartijn interesting, good to know. I haven't seen any of those issues from my own customers - do you know what kind of email content triggered the firewall on Cloudflare's end?
It's not about content, more about email servers not having the proper SPF, reverse DNS, or DKIM configurations. Sometimes only 1 is missing from a setup, which is enough for CF to bounce the emails.
Interesting, now you’ve got me paranoid that I am in fact missing some emails. I’ll check out forwardemail later - they seem to have a free plan too
@smitmartijn set up forwardemail.net - really good service, thanks for the advice. The free plan even lets you send email as another email address using gmail's smtp servers (did not know this was possible) which is amazing. Switched over my support email to this service and it's working great
I just saw this thread, and used this yesterday! thanks for the tips
You might want to consider forwardemail instead (check out the above thread where there are complaints about cloudflare dropping emails)