Email Alias With Cloudflare

Brief

You can forward email with pretty much any domain provider but in this case I am using Cloudflare.

By the end of this article, you will be able to send and receive email from a custom email address that uses your domain name.

You will need to enable 2 Step verification on your google account for this to work.

Step 1: Setup Cloudflare

The first step is to setup cloudflare so it can route email. In this case my domain is mansoor.cf and I will be routing [email protected].

Open your cloudflare dash and go to the “Email” section from the sidebar

click “create address”

Under Custom address type the mail address you want, in this case I will be using test and click Save

Step 2: Email Client Setup

Gmail

Head over to the setting like so

Under “Accounts and Import” go to “Add another email address” in the “Send mail as”

Here enter the custom mail address as Email address

Here enter your details in this order

SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com

Port: 587

Username: [email protected]

Password: «app password»

Username should be your main gmail. In my case its [email protected]

To get your app password go through these steps

1. Go to your Google Account Settings. Go to App Passwords under Security.

From the 1st dropdown select “Mail” and “Other” from second

You can type anything in custom name. I am going with [email protected]

The yellow highlighted characters is your password

You may encounter this error

This happens becuase the page timed out. Try again with the same steps and it should work.

Verify your mail

Enable the Mail alias and you are good to go

Hotmail/Outlook

• Go to account.live.com/alias

• Sign in and click on “Add email address”, under “Add an existing email address as a Microsoft account alias” type your email alias which you want. In my case it’s [email protected]

• Click on “Add alias”, on the next page click on “Verify and then click on the link from the verification link.

ThunderBird

Go to your account settings from the main page

Click “Manage Identities”

Add

Last but not the least enter your details like so

Update

You might get the following error sometimes:

Here is the guide to fix this: /guides/sender-not-verified/

that’s it ✌🏽