Serving Email

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the name of the domain?

digital-pig.com

What is the issue you’re encountering

How do I serve email via my domain?

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I have an email route that receives email from my domain (CF registered) and routes it to my gmail account. I set this up some time ago as a quick fix for saving certain emails in my email app folders.
I now need to be able to send emails from an account tied to that domain. How would I go about that using CF? Is it possible?

If CF has no way to install an email server on a domain, how would I set up RDNS to show that emails coming from a CF Worker point back to my domain. I was thinking maybe I could write some code in a worker to build the relevant email headers (should be no reason why not) but what would an RDNS lookup show?

I’d rather not have to go get some actual hosting on a server as it’s just one more thing in my stack to deal with. I’m pretty sure I could use something other than CF, but I like CF.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Paul

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No, it’s not possible as Cloudflare does not provide such a service. Cloudflare’s Email Routing service only handles incoming emails.

You need to switch to a full-service email service provider that will allow you to both send and receive emails.

It’s pretty much standard practice to delegate email function to a professional email service provider, such as Google Workspace, Microsoft/Office 365, and a gazillion more!

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Yuk! I know that from setting up hundreds of servers in my past, I was just hoping that need had been mitigated by some smart workers or similar.

Really have to work on a solution to this!

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