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Cloudflare Email Routing is now in open beta

14 points by jacobwg 5y ago

dreamsbythelake 5y ago
This is really useful, simple and neat product, thanks to the Cloudflare team! The amount of innovation at that company and how they strive to improve the Internet deserves respect.
viraptor 5y ago
I wish that instead of expanding into proxying even more world traffic, they'd look at not actively protecting organised online abuse, death threats, etc. for a change. Fun tech, but a very irresponsible company.
- gerhardhaering 5y ago
  Care to explain what prompts you to write this? You think that they should act like a publishing platform instead of an infrastructure provider?
  - viraptor 5y ago
    https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731083534667779 https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731083534667779 It's not about being a publishing platform vs infrastructure. They're literally at the level of going to court to protect criminals from being prosecuted because the criminals are their customers. Once you actively protect someone from being prosecuted for swatting and keep them as customers, it's really meaningless what law quirk you use to justify it.
    - dreamsbythelake 5y ago
      “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela
      - viraptor 5y ago
        I can't tell if you think the affected person should become an outlaw, or are you defending attempted death-by-police as a freedom issue. And I'm sad we're at that stage...
        SaiUEF9U6gDXHyW 5y ago
edsimpson 5y ago
This is great! I wish they supported SMTP for sending emails (even if heavily limited / throttled) as well.
- ttul 5y ago
  This would be amazing.
pSYoniK 5y ago
I used it for about a month or so now, it has been quite useful setting up aliases for online shopping and the sorts. It's surprising after a month how many I actually created... I think that says more about our current state of affairs than it does about the service itself.
cr3ative 5y ago
I'm very lucky in that all I was using Workspace for was catch-all email forwarding, which CF Email Routing replaces easily. Glad to be able to delete my Workspace account after their rather silly decision to start charging G Suite Legacy customers such as me; I only had it enabled in the first place as my hosting provider offered it as a free one-click setup option several years ago. The CF product, for free, has been working flawlessly. Very impressed.

14 points by jacobwg 5y ago

This is really useful, simple and neat product, thanks to the Cloudflare team! The amount of innovation at that company and how they strive to improve the Internet deserves respect.

viraptor 5y ago

I wish that instead of expanding into proxying even more world traffic, they'd look at not actively protecting organised online abuse, death threats, etc. for a change. Fun tech, but a very irresponsible company.

gerhardhaering 5y ago
Care to explain what prompts you to write this? You think that they should act like a publishing platform instead of an infrastructure provider?
- viraptor 5y ago
  https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731083534667779 https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731083534667779 It's not about being a publishing platform vs infrastructure. They're literally at the level of going to court to protect criminals from being prosecuted because the criminals are their customers. Once you actively protect someone from being prosecuted for swatting and keep them as customers, it's really meaningless what law quirk you use to justify it.
  - dreamsbythelake 5y ago
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela
    - viraptor 5y ago
      I can't tell if you think the affected person should become an outlaw, or are you defending attempted death-by-police as a freedom issue. And I'm sad we're at that stage...
      - SaiUEF9U6gDXHyW 5y ago

edsimpson 5y ago

This is great! I wish they supported SMTP for sending emails (even if heavily limited / throttled) as well.

ttul 5y ago
This would be amazing.

pSYoniK 5y ago

I used it for about a month or so now, it has been quite useful setting up aliases for online shopping and the sorts. It's surprising after a month how many I actually created... I think that says more about our current state of affairs than it does about the service itself.

cr3ative 5y ago

I'm very lucky in that all I was using Workspace for was catch-all email forwarding, which CF Email Routing replaces easily. Glad to be able to delete my Workspace account after their rather silly decision to start charging G Suite Legacy customers such as me; I only had it enabled in the first place as my hosting provider offered it as a free one-click setup option several years ago. The CF product, for free, has been working flawlessly. Very impressed.