Email Routing: Send Mail As

[crispy-cassette]

Continuing the discussion from [SOLVED] Email Routing: Send Mail As:

@user15610

Gmail lets you use it’s own SMTP server to send emails.
All you have to do is add an SPF to validate you’re not phishing or spam.

Wich smtp server do you put when asked?

[DarkDeviL]

@crispy-cassette

Wich smtp server do you put when asked?

The SMTP server details that your outbound mail provider have provided to you.

Cloudflare’s Email Routing is receiving only, and does not provide a such SMTP service.

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As for some of the fancy “tricks” that some people are spreading around:

More and more providers require proper authentication that also aligns with your own domain these days, or otherwise they will put your message in junk or reject it outright.

You will NEVER get that alignment to your own domain name using the fancy “trick” that people talk about.

Reply from a custom address email

Using the set up like mentioned in the above link, you can send from your Gmail (e.g. [email protected]), where it will still appear to other people’s mail client as if it was sent from (e.g. [email protected]). Taking the set up from that link, or any of the other community provided examples and tutorials, e.g. Solved: How-To Use Gmail SMTP to Send FROM an Email Address which uses Cloudflare Email Routing One thing to note, which all the other guides fail to mention is: Google will sti…

[Laudian]

Cloudflare does not provide any options for sending emails, so it is unclear what you’re asking for.

If you’re talking about the “trick” where people use Cloudflare to forward email to their gmail address and then use gmail for sending with their custom domain:

It is not really worth the effort, as this does not satisfy the SPF alignment criteria, which most of the big email platforms require these days, even if you do not publish a DMARC setting for your domain.

[gedw99]

@Laudian

this

agree . all the world sees your gmail when you reply to them…

I am not an email expert. Will be interesting if Cloudflare introduces something to fix / mitigate this