Create Your First Business Email for Free

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erayalakese

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The post promotes a free service to create a business email, sparking a discussion around the value and limitations of such services for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

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AlfredBarnes

2 months ago

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This is cool, but feels like a work around that will be patched.

navigate8310

2 months ago

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This is not a workaround, this is one of their main product that one should not rely on because Microsoft with their aggressive SPF, DMARC and DNSBL have almost all CF's IP blacklisted. So mail forwarded to your personal MSFT mail account is not guaranteed to arrive and is clearly logged in CF dash.

erayalakeseAuthor

2 months ago

You're actually right. So, this method might not be considered a long-term solution. The article I linked to is actually part of an online guide where I explain how to set up a company step by step. Readers currently at this stage don't yet have a mailbox (like a Google Workspace subscription with a custom domain). A few steps later, I'll explain how to use Gmail with a custom domain. Then, they won't need email routing. This solution is very useful in this regard.

erayalakeseAuthor

2 months ago

No, this isn't actually a workaround. This is exactly what email routing does. You can also create a catch-all email.

There are many situations where "forwarding incoming emails to another address" is sufficient. For example, if you don't yet have a mailbox, if you manage several different domains, etc.

renewiltord

2 months ago

It's just using Cloudflare features for their intended purpose. How is it a workaround? You can even have Gmail configured to send as this email which would be the actually useful thing here because this is just blogspam of the CF feature.

AlfredBarnes

2 months ago

Fair, thank you everyone below pointed out I was wrong :)

That's okay I'll try this out in earnest. Thanks for sharing

kerv

2 months ago

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Is there a limit on how many email forwards you can make with the free plan?

erayalakeseAuthor

2 months ago

Hello. You can create up to 200 emails. https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/limits/

nlh

2 months ago

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The only thing missing here is a way to SEND emails from your new business email. I don’t think CloudFlare (yet) offers virtual SMTP for your routed email, so you can receive emails to your new “noah@mynewcompany.com” address but sent mail will still come from your personal email address.

Anyone have a simple way of solving this? I’ve done it in a complex way (setting up my own SMTP service through through Google Apps, a paid service), but I’m wondering if there’s a simpler approach I should use going forward for these quick setups.

AquiGorka

2 months ago

Mailgun has a free tier for low volume that you can setup on any email client via smtp.

erayalakeseAuthor

2 months ago

Personally, I chose Google Workspace at that stage. It's a pay-per-seat model.

erayalakeseAuthor

2 months ago

Personally, I chose Google Workspace at that stage. It's a pay-per-seat model.

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