Cloudflare Email Service

#1

Post by jilles » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

Cloudflare Email Service
blog.cloudflare.com

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#2

Post by bjord » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

finally, more spam!

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#3

Post by john_strinlai » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

>Everyone already has an email address, which means everyone can already interact with your application or agent. And your agent can interact with anyone.

please no.

>Sending email that actually reaches inboxes usually means wrestling with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. When you add your domain to Email Service, we configure all of it automatically. Your emails are authenticated and delivered, not flagged as spam.

this is going to be an absolute nightmare for spam. i cant exactly block all of cloudflare...

it would be nice if anyone at cloudflare could write about how they plan to proactively reduce abuse of this feature, how they will respond to spam reports, what the punishment for abuse will be, etc.

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#4

Post by moribvndvs » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

While we’re adding antiquated and shitty ways to interface with your agent, can we add fax support? Maybe direct-to-mail service for postcards and flyers?

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#5

Post by amazingamazing » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

More spam at scale. I wish recipients of email had more control over the conditions to which the email is delivered to them, rather than after the fact curation…

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#6

Post by tornikeo » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:11 PM UTC

Oof. I know of a startup that recently Show HN'd here, the agent mail.to, that is NOT having a good time right now. I don't know what all these new startups having moats thinner than Durex are thinking -- like, what the plan if someone does what you do, faster and cheaper?

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#7

Post by baal80spam » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

Ugh, who asked for this?

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#8

Post by Hendrikto » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

tornikeo wrote: post #6

Oof. I know of a startup that recently Show HN'd here, the agent mail.to, that is NOT having a good time right now. I don't know what all these new startups having moats thinner than Durex are thinking -- like, what the plan if someone does what you do, faster and cheaper?

The plan is to have exited by then. These people are mostly just grifters.

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#9

Post by VikingCoder » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

$0.35 per 1,000 outbound emails. Unlimited inbound emails.

How's that compare?

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#10

Post by Hamuko » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

How awful is the reputation on those IP addresses going to be?