Get Every Email to Your Domain in One Gmail Inbox, Free, with Cloudflare
You own a domain. Your website lives on it. With Cloudflare's free plan you can make anything@yourdomain.com - any address, invented on the spot - land in your regular Gmail inbox. No Google Workspace subscription, no mail server, no changing registrars. About 30 minutes, $0. What you get: A catch-all : every address at your domain forwards to one inbox. Free disposable addresses: give netflix@yourdomain.com to Netflix and bank@yourdomain.com to your bank. When spam arrives addressed to one of them, you know who leaked your address. Your website, untouched. One limitation: this is receive-only . You can reply as you@yourdomain.com from free Gmail via "Send mail as", but the mail goes out through Google's servers without your domain's blessing, so some recipients see "via gmail.com" and strict spam filters may object. If sending from the domain matters, that's what Google Workspace is for. For receiving, read on. You need: a domain (registered anywhere; it stays there), a free Cloudflare account, and an inbox to receive the mail. Step 1: Add your domain to Cloudflare Log in at dash.cloudflare.com, click Add a domain , pick the Free plan. Cloudflare scans your existing DNS and imports what it finds. Review this list carefully - the scan is good but not guaranteed complete, and whatever it misses stops resolving after the switch. Check what your DNS really says from any terminal: dig +short A yourdomain.com dig +short MX yourdomain.com dig +short NS yourdomain.com If the MX query returns nothing, you have no existing email service and this migration is pure upside. If it returns something, understand what that mail service is before proceeding. Step 2: The gotcha - where does your DNS actually live? That NS query tells you who currently answers DNS for your domain, and it is not always your registrar. In my case the nameservers pointed at NS1 ( *.nsone.net ) - Netlify DNS . My registrar just held the registration; the DNS zone lived in Netlify, from clicking "use Netli