Enable Email Routing

Important

Enabling Email Routing adds the appropriate MX records to the DNS settings of your zone in order for the service to work. You can change these MX records at any time. However, depending on how you configure them, Email Routing might stop working.

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account and domain.
2. Go to Email > Email Routing.
3. Review the records that will be added to your zone.
4. Select Add records and enable.
5. Go to Routing rules.
6. For Custom addresses, select Create address.
7. Enter the custom email address you want to use (for example, my-new-email@example.com).
8. In Destination addresses, enter the full email address you want your emails to be forwarded to — for example, your-name@example.com.

Note

If you have several destination addresses linked to the same custom email address (rule), Email Routing will only process the most recent rule. To avoid this, do not link several destination addresses to the same custom address.

9. Select Save.
10. Cloudflare will send a verification email to the address provided in the Destination address field. You must verify your email address before being able to proceed.
11. In the verification email Cloudflare sent you, select Verify email address > Go to Email Routing to activate Email Routing.
12. Your Destination address should now show Verified, under Status. Select Continue.
13. Cloudflare needs to add the relevant MX and TXT records to DNS records for Email Routing to work. This step is automatic and is only needed the first time you configure Email Routing. It is meant to ensure you have the proper records configured in your zone. Select Add records and finish.

Email Routing is now enabled. You can add other custom addresses to your account.

Note

When Email Routing is configured and running, no other email services can be active in the domain you are configuring. If there are other MX records already configured in DNS, Cloudflare will ask you if you wish to delete them. If you do not delete existing MX records, Email Routing will not be enabled.