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Shortcuts for HN readers to avoid the pain of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. - Cloudflare Email Routing and DMARC Management. If all you need is inbound email inboxes a
by pixelmonkey 3y ago
Shortcuts for HN readers to avoid the pain of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
- Cloudflare Email Routing and DMARC Management. If all you need is inbound email inboxes at a custom domain that routes to your GMail or other addresses, this is the way to go.
- Fastmail. If you want an alternative to GWorkspace that is cheaper and more lightweight and that has its own non-Google mobile apps and a fast web app. Also if you need IMAP, POP, SMTP support.
- GWorkspace. Sometimes you just have to give in to the overlords. If you need inbound/outbound business mail that just works and integrates with all the Googley services, including GMail and GDrive, you just have to give in to this. Cloudflare makes the DNS setup easier if you go with this option. (They have a x-admin-panel integration.)
- Honorable mention for Opalstack.com. They'll give you open source powered email-server-in-a-box. On a shared Linux server, Procmail rule support, and with Roundcube access for mailboxes.
- The tool https://learndmarc.com https://learndmarc.com is particularly helpful for debugging. It generates a unique email address you can send an email to and it'll tell you what's happening from an SPF, DKIM, and DMARC standpoint. All in the browser.
- landgenoot 3y agoI disagree with the Cloudflare solution. They have issues with their IP address reputation which makes their forwarding very unreliable. They basically get rate limited by Google and smaller email providers. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/email-forwarded-through-cloudflare-to-gmail-thrown-away/480987/11 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/email-forwarded-through-c...
- pixelmonkey 3y agoI actually agree with you that of these solutions, Cloudflare is the one that has the most delivery issues. But, it's free.