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Email Routing review

Score: 8/10

Free inbound email forwarding that just works.

Reliability
8Pricing honesty
10Developer experience
7Trajectory
8

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Email Routing gives every zone free inbound email. It forwards custom addresses and catch-alls to real mailboxes, with MX and SPF records configured in one click. For a simple address such as hello@ that does not need its own mailbox, it is hard to beat.

Deliverability of forwarded mail has a solid track record, and the Email Workers integration (processing inbound mail with code) turns it from a convenience into a building block.

It loses two points because outbound sending and replies from aliases belong to the separate Email Service product. Routing only matches addresses, and there is little visibility when a downstream mailbox rejects a forward.

Status page incidents

Published under Email Routing, plus incidents whose title names it.

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Last 3 years
9
2 from the title
Major or critical
1
Median time open
3.0 h
Since January 2022
19

Counts what Cloudflare published, not what broke: time open is how long the status entry stayed open, and nothing before January 2022 is tracked at all. Incidents Cloudflare tagged against nothing but named in the title are counted too. The caveats in full.