# Cloudflare Email Routing

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-email-routing/

12 people recommended Cloudflare Email Routing in Hacker News comments and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 9 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free forwarding from a custom domain to an existing inbox, easy to set up. Critics report dropped messages and mail rejected by Microsoft.

Summary written by Claude from 16 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 15 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Free, no-fee forwarding (3 comments in the sample): "very easy to setup with Cloudflare Email Routing and no fees" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094876)) "Cloudflare gives you free email forwarding" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983800)) "You can have a zero-cost inbox." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032250))
- Works well for many users (2 comments in the sample): "cloudflare routing in + zoho free out works fine for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961663)) "Now my mail gets delivered reliably." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740998))
- Pairs with separate outgoing mail (1 comment in the sample): "What about using cloudflare or whoever to forward emails to your gmail, and then user cloudflare or whoever's smtp to send emails from that address?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960676))

## What people warn about

- Messages dropped or never forwarded (2 comments in the sample): "They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033361)) "I never got email routing to work. I doubt this will work in the general case." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795239))
- Rejected by Microsoft or blocked IPs (2 comments in the sample): "every forward is rejected by Microsoft due to spam generated by Cloudflare" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796045)) "They intermittently block Cloudflare email routing IPs too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837913))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/email-routing/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare Email Routing", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-email-routing/ (12 recommend, 0 mixed, 4 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.