Free custom-domain email with Cloudflare Email Routing
Get professional you@yourdomain email forwarded to Gmail for free — MX, SPF, DKIM and catch-all, no mail host required.
A short, practical tutorial on standing up professional email on your own domain — for free — using Cloudflare Email Routing, forwarding to an inbox you already own.
What the video covers
- Configuring the DNS records that make deliverable email work: MX, SPF and DKIM.
- Setting up forwarding rules so
contact@yourdomain.comlands in your existing Gmail or Yahoo. - Enabling catch-all so every address at your domain is handled.
- The whole thing with no paid mail host.
Why it matters
A custom-domain address is one of the cheapest credibility upgrades a developer or founder can make, and most people assume it requires a paid email provider. It doesn't. This is the exact setup I use behind my own domain.
Persian narration; the Cloudflare dashboard steps are visual and directly reproducible.