Gmail Custom Domain Email (Free Cloudflare Updated Method 2023)

To send email from gmail with a custom domain.

Update: A few people have said they can still get the cloudflare forwarder to gmail, but for many things go to spam, and sometimes things are totally undeliverable. It seems way too janky to recommend cloudflares forwarder at the moment, so the improvmx forwarder seems to be a better choice for now 👍

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[ShooterDomain]

This was incredibly easy to follow and super clear. Thank you!

[good.designs]

Thank you so much! Tried this today and all went smooth.

[naturallydope]

Thank you for providing a fix to this! It works perfectly.

[abdesamad]

thank you so much for the update. i m your biggest fan. you are really doing an amazing job for the humanity 😊😊

[DhaniSharma]

its not working for me... I am able to receive emails but not able to send mails from google ..followed exactly same process...plz can you help

[CreatingFreedom]

Thank you so much. I ahve been trying to solve this SEND issue for a long time.

[hanachirusatosan]

Hey Alex!

It seems like email forwarding from cloudflare doesn't work anymore for new domains... It keeps throwing messages that the custom address emails don't exist

[dennismacwilliams]

You are a very good teacher, learned a lot today.
Thank you.
If I could ask maybe just slow up a bit would be helpful, if you could.
Thank's again

[GerardoSabetta]

Thanks for the great explanation, I have a question for you, on minute 10:15 you can see an "Unsubscribe" button I'm supposing it's related to the email headers "list-unsubscribe" is there any way to get rid of that header? I don't want people on the other end of the loop thinking they are part of a mailing list they have never subscribed to and that "Unsubscribe" feature is really getting in the way

[oamigo]

Hey, always saving lives. Thanks again!!!

[KiwiPizzaOven]

Thanks. Works, but in my case Gmail treats these emails as "Promotions", so it is big chance that they will not appear in "Primary' only in 'All Mail".

[ProjectorBD]

I found that problem, Cloudflare says they forwarded but my Gmail doesn't show me not even in the spam folder! Then I disabled Cloudflare email forwarding and used my hosting default email but still I'm facing issues. Seems Gmail is going to be very strict nowadays!!

[TheBuddyBuddySystem]

Will this setup work for Aweber DKIN and SPF? Thanks

[hyzvtsq]

Hello...
The SPF records is not working i tried couple of times it is not working
would you help me.
Thank you

[HawksleyMike]

Great video - Thanks! Do you think you could add a video showing how to connect this configuration into the iOS email app?

[chiefwiggum]

Another excellent video, you should make more! Is there any chance you could do one on setting up Oracle Cloud Email Delivery on the free tier, as I haven't been able to get it to work despite spending hours on it? You have a knack for making tricky things doable.

[MehrTV.]

how to connect smtp of wordpress to the costum email address that we made with "cloudflare and gmail", please make a video abut this

[iltonseixasadv]

Can we use AWS SES with Cloudflare Email Routing?

[sharkportal]

Any updates these days guys?

Would improvmx be a reliable choice "set it and forget it" for 5-10 years ahead?

Would you be setting up budget clients' emails like that?

[fabiann]

is there a way to get a custom icon in the profil picture of the custom email adress?