Question on using routing to filter emails but keep destination email address

[user87119]

What is the name of the domain?

‘example.com’

What is the issue you’re encountering

I want to use email routing to filter emails but on the same email address

[user87119]

I basically dont understand how i can use email routing (having to change MX records to point to CF) to intercept emails to ‘mail.example.com’ but then forward them onto my mail server that is set up on the same domain’s MX records.
It seems to only be able to intercept emails on my domain and foward them to another domain…

[DarkDeviL]

@user87119

I want to use email routing to filter emails but on the same email address

Can you explain what kind of use-case you have for this?

@user87119

It seems to only be able to intercept emails on my domain and foward them to another domain…

This is exactly how email routing / email forwarding services work.

They receive them, and (try to) pass them on to another mailbox.

@user87119

I basically dont understand how i can use email routing (having to change MX records to point to CF) to intercept emails to ‘mail.example.com’ but then forward them onto my mail server that is set up on the same domain’s MX records.

That won’t be possible on the exact same (sub-)domain, -

However, you can make “mail.example.com” handle the traffic for a sub-domain instead, such as e.g. how I mentioned in the following posts:

@DarkDeviL

There is no way to use them both at the same time for the exact same (sub-)domain.

If you are willing (and able) to switch GoDaddy to run on a sub-domain instead, such as e.g. @godaddy.example.com rather than @example.com, that could be a way.

Or, the more elaborative post over here:

@DarkDeviL

MX for example.com goes to Cloudflare Email Routing.

Point that email address to send it’s messages from [email protected] to e.g. [email protected].

On spaghetti.example.com, you add it’s MX records to point to the hostname of your actual server.

And, add @spaghetti.example.com as an email alias for @example.com on your actual server, unless you are willing to change your addresses there to be @spaghetti.example.com instead.