Google Cloud Migration Part3

2022-05-10 Tech

Continuing from Part 1 I had a change of heart…

I decided I really wanted my wild-card mail boxes (it’s a great way to manage spam) and I also noticed Cloudflare had launched their inbound mail relay service. The new plan is

Inbound mail goes to Cloudflare who redirect it to whoever it’s for gmail account
The gmail accounts are set up with an alias and a SMTP server (AWS SES) for gidley.co.uk to allow sending of emails from my domain
Wildcards are resolved by cloudflare and set to a suitable mailbox

Cloudflare Setup

The email features of Cloudflare are in beta, but they seem pretty easy to get onto. While I was on I moved many of my domains over to Cloudflare as their DNS registrar is cheaper than most.

Once there it was a doddle to set up the relevant records. It’s important to set up DKIM/SPF records (cloudflare help) to ensure your outbound emails don’t get flagged as SPAM.