That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.
replyHere's my top-secret Rube Goldberg Machine that maintains my online identity.
replyisn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?
replyIt's not about the uptime or scalability. Everyone has to make the choice for themselves if they value their time less than $12/year (Or free if Google is an option) for a critical part of their digital infrastructure to set all these moving parts up and keep them running over years.
replyI'll stick to Fastmail, where if something isn't working as expected I can just email them and get a response from a real human.
It doesn't change the fact that the workflow gp explains is a duct taped construct.
replyIt's hyperscalable and highly available today, until the API changes.
Yeah it's highly available until it isn't and then that turns into your problem rather than something like Gmail just working
replythat's the thing it cannot stop working because webworker and email forwarding is very reliable, email itself has retries built it and soft bounce handling.
replyJust a heads up I have seen complaints about CF email forwarding completely dropping emails that failed to pass certain SPF validation. They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded, rather than in something like Gmail it would end up in spam
replyOn a related note they opensourced an email client:
https://github.com/cloudflare/agentic-inbox
replycf bought an email security company a couple years ago so wouldn’t shock me they have good spam filtering.
replyThere’s a completely free tier of Zohomail which does more than what I need for a custom email.
replyyes but that's not good if you want programmatic inbound access which is what u need for many apps. That tier has no imap access.
replyThat's pretty neat! What do you use to send and receive emails on your phone?
replyonce you've emails stored, you can use any webclient.
replyyou can write an api to imap adapter and use it in your favourite mail client
SES exposes SMPT directly.