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Email Workers review
Score: 7/10Programmatic inbound email is a quiet superpower.
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Email Workers lets inbound mail trigger a Worker. You can parse, route, forward, or reject the message, or start another process from it. Support ingestion, replies by email, and alert deduplication become small functions instead of jobs for a mail server or parsing service.
Email is just another event type, so the integration is clean. Storing attachments in R2 or handing work to Queues feels natural.
Local development and testing remain awkward, and you will send more real test emails than you would like. Message size limits and thin debugging tools cost it points too. Still, it turns email into an API for free.
Status page incidents
Published under Email Routing, plus incidents whose title names it.
- 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.