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That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identif
by dewey 6mo ago
That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.
- faangguyindia 6mo agoisn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoYeah it's highly available until it isn't and then that turns into your problem rather than something like Gmail just working
- faangguyindia 6mo agothat's the thing it cannot stop working because webworker and email forwarding is very reliable, email itself has retries built it and soft bounce handling.
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoJust a heads up I have seen complaints about CF email forwarding completely dropping emails that failed to pass certain SPF validation. They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded, rather than in something like Gmail it would end up in spam
- selcuka 6mo agoIt doesn't change the fact that the workflow gp explains is a duct taped construct. It's hyperscalable and highly available today, until the API changes.
- dewey 6mo agoIt's not about the uptime or scalability. Everyone has to make the choice for themselves if they value their time less than $12/year (Or free if Google is an option) for a critical part of their digital infrastructure to set all these moving parts up and keep them running over years. I'll stick to Fastmail, where if something isn't working as expected I can just email them and get a response from a real human.
- tietjens 6mo agoHere's my top-secret Rube Goldberg Machine that maintains my online identity.