cloudflare introduce its free email forwarding
 

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/
I like CF who provides great services for webmaster always.

Interesting, and probably much more reliable forwarding than typical email providers. I wonder what the never-forward-email folks think? Doesn't it seem like email forwarding is having a moment? I've noticed several newish companies joining the fray. Notably SimpleLogin, ManyMe, and now Cloudflare. And, it appears that good old POBox.com is rolling right along. Of course you can also send as well as receive using POBox.com.

Also don't forget mayway.app who is rich on features but not that solid. But I like mayway since it can forward to many different addresses.

Cloudflare says about this new service;

Yes i like them also.... They offer NO BROWSER LEFT BEHIND for those sites that wanna force SSL but dont wanna cut off older browsers....

http://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-dep...er-left-behind

That lets ANY BROWSER connect SSL..

It looks like you'll need two domains to use it without using a shared domain/email service. Point the MX for one domain there, and another somewhere else. The screenshots imply that you're just forwarding to another address, so their ideal target is probably someone using a free service on the backend. Which, frankly, is a lot. I'd surely find out that Gmail is my customer's favorite email client if I tried.

Now in open beta
 

Cloudflare email routing is now in "open beta." https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-routing-open-beta/

I've had access for a few days, before the beta was opened up for everyone, and have been experimenting with the forwarding. This is following on from this post.

However, setting up Cloudflare has resulted in a few more head scratches than normal!

I set up the DNS records as I thought they should be, but Cloudflare didn't like some of them and I was getting failures on receipt (always checking via a Gmail account). I'm now at a stage where Cloudflare is saying 'A few more steps are required to complete your setup' and wants a DMARC record policy included - I entered a DMARC record (none policy), but that then resulted in Gmail reporting DMARC as FAIL. That's confused me as I then was receiving DMARC reports on e-mails forwarded from Cloudflare! So, I've removed the DMARC record but Cloudflare are asking for it again.

Are Cloudflare treating their forwarding different from, for example, Porkbun's forwarding?

There's no mention of needing a DMARC record here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/migratin...email-routing/

Here's a link to a screencap: https://i.postimg.cc/MHRdy6JL/Screen...1-11-23-34.png

Did you get the confirmation email after creating the email address?

Yep, been verified.

If it were me I would try (if possible) reverting my DNS to whatever the default was, then start from scratch and follow their instructions for creating the records automatically.

I'm inclined to leave 'as is' for the time being - without the DMARC record, I'm receiving the forwarded e-mails to my inbox, which is acceptable for now.

Hopefully, others that try out the Cloudflare offering will post their experiences in due course.

Yes, I don't think the DMARC record is needed for forwarding. But, this again points out what to me seems like poor documentation and unclear UI on Cloudflare. I know geeks think differently, but I find that muddled UI often means muddled functionality.