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View and send? Most Cloudflare can do is forward email to a normal inbox: https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/ and send email through Email Workers to manually verified destinations: https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/email-workers/send-email-workers/
You'll want a more typical mail setup for normal mail otherwise. People have talked about Zohomail before which is free for one domain, or you have some nice paid options like Fastmail/protonmail or more typical enterprise options like Google Workspace/Microsoft 365, etc
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In Zohomail it has allowed me to send an email but not receive
Do you know why?
probably because you haven't properly configured the MX Records on your domain, would have to get that info from them tho
Do I share you the information of the mx records?
no, you would create the required records in the cloudflare dashboard
Could you send me the link where that information is?
Thanks, I already have it active and it works
A question, about spam, how do I set that up, where do I get the IPv4 and IPv6?
Why do the emails you sent with your own domain not have an image and are marked as spam?
The mail has an image, But it doesn't appear in the mail that I send
Cloudflare email routing is inbound routing to a destination mailbox. It doesn't include the mailbox nor does it cover outbound delivery from your custom domain.
Here's how i "fixed" both in and out email routing: Use CF Email routing for all inbound mails, use your own root mailserver as DNS CNAME or A mail record. Pointing to, not the mail server of your hosting, but the mailserver of your hosting provider. Most of the providers nowadays have SMTP/IMAP setup-guides referring to these root servers. This will still allow you to send but not receive from the web/mail-server. You'll receive all mail forwarded from cloudflare to your personal address instead. If you have both your personal and web mail connected to one client, sending in name of your own domain should be easy in the reply interface. I use this work-around to not expose my origin web/mail-server IP address
EIther way, if you want to send. And from the messages I can't determine yet if you have or don't have a mailserver. If you don't you will need one yes 🙂
Avoid sent to spam: All you can do on your part is make sure the DKIM and SPF DNS-records are configured correctly. Still won't be a guarantee, your provider, is it Zohomail? Probably also has a guide on this! Good luck!
You'll have deliverability issues until DKIM, SPF is setup correctly for the outbound delivery of your domain. And you generally won't get that using the "SMTP/IMAP" workaround unless that host has proper DKIM for your domain.
Either way, glad you found something that works for you. Cheers!
Where can I get the IPs?
Yes for outbound I actually use my providers records, and it seems to work fine, CNAME my mail to their mail record also works but gets triggered most as spam. (DKIM-fail if my mail record is used in SMTP) incoming in my case however needs to be tied to my own hosting IP for it to work, can't just bypass it like I do with sending. that's why i chose CF mail routing, didn't want to expose the IP in records, CF proxied won't work here either 😄
Check Zohomail? Have they provided you with an incoming/outgoing mailserver? Maybe search for a section mail client set-up. ping that address and the IP you get will be the one you need, ping -6 for ipv6
Yes in Zohomail
So do I have to look for a section?
Set-up
Yes client setup guide, they should provide the configuration details you'll need to configure your DNS and possibly mail client 😉
Zoho
Zoho Mail - IMAP and SMTP Configuration details
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is an email protocol. The emails are stored on the mail server, but can also be accessed from desktop and mobile clients using this protocol.
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