Info Email
hello, I would have an information, I want to use Email cloudflare service, I have a domain, and I want to use it as main email i.e., create an email with cloudflare and use it as personal, (obviously with direct to that gmail), are there any limits? e.g. limits to receive etc.?? are there any delays in delivery, and safe? what are the disadvantages?? also what is email workers?
waiting for feedback thank you
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@MrRaffus_ I would suggest using it. I can't make any guarantees for saftey or what not, but as a user I've found it be to be very helpful and a valueable feature for creating email aliases for my various domains.
Key note is that these aren't email accounts like typical outlook, google workspace, etc. email accounts. They're forwarding/receive only. You can't log into them in gmail, but you can set them to forward to your gmail email. Basically, you can't send from them, only receive.
You can however send emails from Workers for free using a Mailchannels integration. There's been some security concerns arise over this recently though so make sure you know what you're doing. Still, this doesn't give you a traditional email account, just programmatic sending. https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/email-workers/send-email-workers/
Email Workers allow the entry to a worker (an edge function) to be an email. Otherwise it would be a fetch request or cron. With an email worker, you send an email to [email protected] and Cloudflare sends it to your worker. This let's you do things with that email and use it as data input into an application. Mostly the same as sending a fetch request, but rather than an HTTP request it uses an email.
According to the docs there are several limits including:
- Message size (25 MiB)
- Rules (200)
- Addresses (200)
https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/limits/
Here's a doc link for Email routing: https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/