Cloudflare Email Routing
Hacker ApprovedEmail forwarding service in Productivity & writing
Free forwarding from a custom domain to an existing inbox, easy to set up. Critics report dropped messages and mail rejected by Microsoft.
Free forwarding from a custom domain to an existing inbox, easy to set up. Critics report dropped messages and mail rejected by Microsoft.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 76%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free, no-fee forwarding
“very easy to setup with Cloudflare Email Routing and no fees”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox” “Cloudflare gives you free email forwarding”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support” “You can have a zero-cost inbox.”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy” Works well for many users
“cloudflare routing in + zoho free out works fine for me”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “Now my mail gets delivered reliably.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees” “but it works well for this use case”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Webhook API – inbound email –> webhook” Pairs with separate outgoing mail
“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?”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email” “cloudflare routing in + zoho free out works fine for me”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “All I wanted was a custom domain email”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Messages dropped or never forwarded
“They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy” “I never got email routing to work. I doubt this will work in the general case.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents” Rejected by Microsoft or blocked IPs
“every forward is rejected by Microsoft due to spam generated by Cloudflare”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents” “They intermittently block Cloudflare email routing IPs too.”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed”
What people said
16 of the 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“very easy to setup with Cloudflare Email Routing and no fees”
“cloudflare routing in + zoho free out works fine for me”
“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?”
“They intermittently block Cloudflare email routing IPs too.”
“with something like cloudflare forwarding you can black-hole an address if it becomes a problem”
“i've found cloudflare's email routing useful to just send emails to blah@customdomain.com sent to blah@myemail.com”
“But yes, this is the way.”
“They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded”
“isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?”
“You can have a zero-cost inbox.”
“but it works well for this use case”
“every forward is rejected by Microsoft due to spam generated by Cloudflare”
“I never got email routing to work. I doubt this will work in the general case.”
“Now my mail gets delivered reliably.”
“it's much easier to read what's happening in html formatted email”
“Cloudflare gives you free email forwarding”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.