{"slug": "cloudflare-email-routing", "name": "Cloudflare Email Routing", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.298, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2026-01-18", "latest": "2026-06-16", "why": "The solution for that was to use Cloudflare to forward my incoming email instead.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "The solution for that was to use Cloudflare to forward my incoming email instead.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Cloudflare Email Routing"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 768516000, "item_id": 48032250, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032250", "by": "faangguyindia", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can have a zero-cost inbox.", "excerpt": "One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is: You can have a zero-cost inbox. Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases) but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes: Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments ", "context": "", "use_case": "free inbound email with unlimited aliases", "switched_from": "Zoho", "story": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"}, {"id": 763855968, "item_id": 47740998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740998", "by": "NelsonMinar", "date": "2026-04-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The solution for that was to use Cloudflare to forward my incoming email instead.", "excerpt": "I've recently switched my personal email to a brand new domain and am struggling with getting it delivered. And all I'm doing is ~100 emails a week hand written by me to other individuals. I've been doing Internet email for 35 years now, I used to handwrite sendmail.cf for my college. I'm worried the medium is going to fail entirely in 5-10 years because of complexity in spam fighting. Receiving mail: I was using Goo", "context": "has done Internet email for 35 years", "use_case": "forwarding domain email", "switched_from": "Google Workspace", "story": "We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "NelsonMinar", "context": "has done Internet email for 35 years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740998", "date": "2026-04-12"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["forwarding aliases", "free inbound email with unlimited aliases", "forwarding domain email", "email forwarding"], "compared": [{"slug": "google-workspace", "name": "Google Workspace", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "zoho-mail", "name": "Zoho Mail", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935", "title": "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684", "title": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738978", "title": "We have a 99% email reputation. 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The addresses are pre-allocated and recycled when deleted so creating a new one is faster that with Apple's hide my mail. https://github.com/webmonch/hide-my-mail-cloud", "context": "", "use_case": "forwarding aliases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"}, {"id": 768516000, "item_id": 48032250, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032250", "by": "faangguyindia", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can have a zero-cost inbox.", "excerpt": "One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is: You can have a zero-cost inbox. Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases) but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes: Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments ", "context": "", "use_case": "free inbound email with unlimited aliases", "switched_from": "Zoho", "story": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"}, {"id": 763855968, "item_id": 47740998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740998", "by": "NelsonMinar", "date": "2026-04-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The solution for that was to use Cloudflare to forward my incoming email instead.", "excerpt": "I've recently switched my personal email to a brand new domain and am struggling with getting it delivered. And all I'm doing is ~100 emails a week hand written by me to other individuals. I've been doing Internet email for 35 years now, I used to handwrite sendmail.cf for my college. I'm worried the medium is going to fail entirely in 5-10 years because of complexity in spam fighting. Receiving mail: I was using Goo", "context": "has done Internet email for 35 years", "use_case": "forwarding domain email", "switched_from": "Google Workspace", "story": "We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees"}, {"id": 746686753, "item_id": 46667922, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667922", "by": "saimiam", "date": "2026-01-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "until cloudflare started supporting email forwarding", "excerpt": "I made an email mailbox using S3 object versioning. Every email address was an s3 object so every new email sent to that email address was saved as a new object version. Presenting that email as an mailbox was just a matter of reading all the versions of that object. It worked! I used this contraption as a domain level catch\u2014all inbox for a while until cloudflare started supporting email forwarding.", "context": "", "use_case": "email forwarding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: When has a \"dumb\" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?"}]}