Email routing has a ~10 minute delay
send any email to [email protected] – it arrives WAY later than it was sent. This makes this totally impractical for daily usage.
Can you share where exactly you are forwarding to, e.g. which email provider?
Gmail. But I may have solved my own issue. It seems like the MX servers may still be propagating and I just need to wait a bit longer before complaining about anything…would that make sense?
Do you see any of the senders of the delayed messages under the “Activity Log”, perhaps with the status “Delivery Failure”, on this page?
→ https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/email/routing/overview
If so, please expand each entry, to see extended error information, and share it here.
I don’t know how long you waited, but DNS propagation can sometimes take quite a while.
So it isn’t impossible that the sender’s infrastructure may have been stuck with stale MX records, leading towards your old provider, or otherwise no MX records for a little while, if you didn’t have any before.