Email Aliases

[mullinertodd]

I am not very tech savvy and need a few simple questions answered…

1. I have a URL that i only intend to use as a forward to an existing hosted page/site (Menuocity.club)

2. I also want to have multiple email aliases, but each alias will forward to a different address. I.e - [email protected] forwarded to [email protected] and [email protected] will forward to [email protected]

Can Cloudflare provide these services?

[DarkDeviL]

@mullinertodd

Can Cloudflare provide these services?

Cloudflare Email Routing can technically provide you with what you you’re looking for.

But any Email Routing / Email Forwarding services come with various caveats:

@DarkDeviL

Whether you call it Email Routing, or as with your words, “forwarding”, it would technically be referring to the exact same thing.

Stuff like e.g. the massive spam, phishing and malware distribution going on out there., has provided us with the result that more and more providers have become strict in regards to what they (want) receive, but unfortunately haven’t been much clear to their users about it.

Forwarding/(re)routing looks as a result, especially of that, to be a thing of the past.

If you can avoid it, I would rather suggest you to direct your mail traffic directly to the final destination, e.g. avoiding email forwarding/routing.

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@DarkDeviL

Cloudflare will be attempting to route all messages to the final destination, however, if the final destination (e.g. Google / Gmail, or )Microsoft / Outlook is rejecting the message from Cloudflare, Cloudflare will likewise reject the transmission from the sender.

The final destination you may attempt to route/forward to, may however have very extensive filters.

Forwarding to the major “free” mails, such as Google / Gmail (e.g. @gmail.com, @googlemail.com, …) and Microsoft / Outlook (e.g. @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, …) are very well known to be a hit and miss from time to time, and based on the many threads available out there, mostly a miss.

What and how the final destinations (e.g. Google / Gmail, Microsoft / Outlook, or whomever you use) do their things, and whether those things fit your use case, would be something you need to figure out with them.

Same applies if the final destination is rejecting your precious messages, it would be them you would need to escalate the issue to, and not Cloudflare.

I will strongly advice against it, especially when the final destination is supposed to be any of those free email addresses, such as e.g. Gmail.