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Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Re: Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Post by mox1 »

Just wanted comment here that fastmail has very similar product, called pobox (pobox.com).

Using that service for a few years now, very happy. I am surprised this isn't more popular.

I've got ~5 domains for various things (work, personal). All have email routed through this type of service.

For example, I have an amazon@mydomain.com that forwards all e-mails to me and my partners address.

I have various project domains that forward to my personal gmail.

Because it is part of fastmail, I can throw an inbox at any domain. So thing2@mydomain.com can be a regular fastmail address (using their mobile app), while thing3@mydomain.com can forward to gmail.

Using gmails 'send as' feature I can send emails from these domains as well.

Re: Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Post by chromaniac »

mox1 wrote: post #2

Just wanted comment here that fastmail has very similar product, called pobox (pobox.com). Using that service for a few years now, very happy. I am surprised this isn't more popular. I've got ~5 domains for various things (work, personal). All have email routed through this type of service. For example, I have an amazon@mydomain.com that forwards all e-mails to me and my partners address. I have various project domai…

Cloudflare does not support forwarding to multiple email ids yet though.

Re: Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Post by kevincox »

It's a nice ad for the service, but there are many services that can do a simple forwarding to mailboxes. The hard part about the GSuite Free shutdown isn't the email routing. It is docs that have been shared with you, calendar events that Google has a hard time realizing are now managed somewhere else, Google Photos and Keep that can't easily be transferred, Play Purchases that are stuck on the old account.

So it is nice to provide a simple guide, but this is the trivial part of the migration. It took me about 2h mostly because I was cautious and did a slow migration.

Re: Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Post by lpellegr »

riobard wrote: post #5

Any plans for sending emails?

I thought exactly the same the first day Cloudflare announced Email Routing. Email sending is a few Billion with only a few large competitors. I guess that's one of their long-term plan or at least I hope so. They have knowledge, market, and money to provide better-added value than Amazon SES.

Re: Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing

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Post by jsoizo »

lpellegr wrote: post #6
riobard wrote: post #5

Any plans for sending emails?

I thought exactly the same the first day Cloudflare announced Email Routing. Email sending is a few Billion with only a few large competitors. I guess that's one of their long-term plan or at least I hope so. They have knowledge, market, and money to provide better-added value than Amazon SES.

Agree. I've moved my email routing service from Mailgun to Cloudflare, but still use Mailgun as SMTP server...
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