STOP Paying for Custom Email!

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STOP Paying for Custom Email!

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Are you paying for a custom email address? You may not need to! Here's a new free feature from Cloudflare to get a free custom email.
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Gmail workaround info (for the SMTP server setup page)
SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
Username: your Gmail without the @gmail.com
Password: your Google account password (need App Specific Password if you use 2FA)
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0:00 - What is Cloudflare Email Routing?
0:37 - How Do You Get CF Email Routing?
1:00 - How Does Email Forwarding Work?
1:40 - Why is CF Email Routing Better?
2:52 - The Problem with Email Forwarding
4:19 - Setting Up Cloudflare Email Routing
6:28 - Setting Up Gmail Custom Email Sending
9:20 - A Warning About the Gmail Workaround
10:16 - Who Should Use This?
11:33 - Bonus Use for CF Email Routing
12:04 - Conclusion
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@dr9205 2 жыл бұрын

Things looked good until the warning banner

@leesampson9083 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, you are incredible! I watched through to the end and ended up just setting up custom email and I'm ok it coming back from my gmail address at this stage as I am just starting out. I can barely spell tech-savy, let alone be one... but your tutorial(s) is so well done and easy to follow and hats off to cloudflare too, it was super easy. Thanks again!👏👏👏👏

@WeathermanMark1 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! The way to get around the "Be careful with this message" is to add both Cloudflare (fantastic company) and Gmail to your SPF record. KZfaq keeps deleting my comment for unknown reasons, but you basically list both in your single SPF record. I would post the example, but I think that is why it keeps deleting my comment.

@luizsantos2422 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, please make an example video as most of peaple wouldn't know how to set it up. Me included hahahah

@kelemon 2 жыл бұрын

yt is weird when it comes to link, but please send it haha

@SmeetsDieter Жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, can you share how you did it or sent me a PM? Thanks!

@TitosVlog Жыл бұрын

Thanks it worked!

@yourawesomeness2424 Жыл бұрын

hi could you also explain to me how it works?

@moondog604 2 жыл бұрын

Bro I totally love you.....I was starting to regret embracing cloudflare with my most recent dedicated server, thanks for showing us the correct set up!

@oussamanagda3737 Жыл бұрын

no one regret using cloudflare

@webxpresstech 2 жыл бұрын

great tutorial but i kept getting the error message "Authentication failed. Please check your username/password" even though i am using the correct info on the SMTP setup page

@traviscleary6737 Жыл бұрын

I am getting the same issue. Were you ever able to get this to work?

@ExploreTheWaycom Жыл бұрын

I got this to work before and am having problems now. It says username/password fail...

@haddow777 Жыл бұрын

There was another video on this where the guy did some DNS settings to sign the email, so it verified you control the domain name, and it gets rid of that warning.

@GregorSamsaNaN 2 жыл бұрын

This is a neat trick if you want an email aliasing solution for a secondary domain you just purchased for like real cheap. However, I don't want to sound like a Negative Nancy but this is HORRIBLE advice if you want to have a domain with good standing on most email services. This method will cause DMARC DKIM/SPF checks to fail, and your domain is going to get flagged so bad that it'll become completely unsuable. Please, if you value your domain ability to send emails do as Craylor says @3:40, pay for a custom email with a catch-all option. Something like Tutanota for example for $12/year you get all you need to start receiving and sending emails, they show you how to pass all auth/sender policy checks with the dns records on Cloudflare with the added value of privacy from the email company itself.

@hayopapayo1717 2 жыл бұрын

what if we add spf record to our domain is that good enough?

@vishal_joshi24 Жыл бұрын

Hey! Great video! Unfortunately, I already had the problem of my emails landing in the spam folder when I had configured it through Gmail. I then opted to use Zoho mail free tier and configured my personal email, and I am super happy that my emails no longer land in the spam folder. It is funny how Gmail did not solve my problem but Zoho mail did. Although, email forwarding on cloudfare is still ON which also keeps my mind at peace of not missing any email. Disclaimer: I am not paid or in partnership with zoho mail on any level. I am just a happy user of their free tier!

@Jcesarpabreu Жыл бұрын

same here!

@PassionBrains Жыл бұрын

I am glad KZfaq recommend this guy

@jarredtol 2 жыл бұрын

2FA on and using APP passwords is the only way to have this setup as google deprecated the feature of signing in with weak app logins in May 2022. I fell into this issue with one of my programs that used a gmail account and couldn't authenticate until I enabled 2FA and used an APP password.

@fecossi 7 ай бұрын

What is APP password? I dont have this.. you mean Google Authenticator?

@jns2001 2 жыл бұрын

If you use iCloud + all the instructions are forwarded to you and you don’t get that sent via Gmail.

@jeepy-f 2 жыл бұрын

all good but it asks me for the username and password and there I fail, I put all the google accounts and nothing

@Ss-zg3yj Ай бұрын

Absolute crap. You can't send emails with it, and ALL incoming emails goes to SPAM when you connect it to gmail.

@TitosVlog Жыл бұрын

If you add cloudflare and Gmail SPF record in one line it will not go to spam

@eplusplus 5 күн бұрын

Love your videos! Always very helpful ❤

@Ititchiwhatititchi Жыл бұрын

Man, I was so excited watching this video, taking notes (on an airplane) and exited to set this up until you mentioned about the warning banner. I wish you would’ve mentioned that from the beginning so I wouldn’t waste my time. Great content nonetheless.

@Craylor Жыл бұрын

Great feedback, I can be more forthcoming about that when I make a newer version of this video. Thanks!

@WokerThanThou Жыл бұрын

Fwiw, someone in the comments said adding additional information in Cloudflare's one SPF record with Google's SPF info will solve the problem. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds valid based on my experience.

@ENT_PRESTIGIOUS Жыл бұрын

better than i expected! Too bad we can't remove the via gmail signature and the yellow message! Thanks! (using App Specific Password in account -> security settings)

@CookiesAndCremation Жыл бұрын

I've been banging my head on a desk for days trying to get this to work, and ultimately it ended up working perfectly after setting up 2FA and app passwords. I'm using Porkbun email forwarding, though I don't know if that would make a difference.

@lespinoz Жыл бұрын

So interesting, you just came up on time, prior renewing my email account subscription. Now all emails are going to my gmail and I keep using CloudFlare for tunnels as well!

@crmz.series 3 ай бұрын

your pop guard looks like a fly swatter

@mimico5138 2 жыл бұрын

just sign up, I don't have an Email option!! can you tell me what is the next step please?

@rushilshah13 2 жыл бұрын

Same issue. Authentication failed. Please check your username/password and less secure apps.

@demetrismit3090 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a great video. Do you have any links or resources on how to do this if you have 2FA on your account, please? Thank you.

@kkokoruz Жыл бұрын

Any plans to make a cloudflare load balancing video. I'm strugging to get this configured the the video provided by Cloudflare falls short of some crucial details

@dussanalvarado481 11 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial for personalized emails. Personally I think it would work great for people who have short term projects. But for long term business I don't see much future because gmail will not allow you to send bulk emails as it has a limit of sending emails per day and per month.

@hashimhalstead Жыл бұрын

Bro! I've been binging your videos all morning! Thank you so much for all your hard work! From one nerdy drummer to another 😄

@Bemaseated Жыл бұрын

Too many hoops for a few bucks. Just me though

@brokenmold 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge cloudflare fan. But their email forwarding seems reallllly slow. At least on my initial testing.

@Honest_Reviewer. 2 жыл бұрын

LOL!!! AOL... gotta love the comedy!

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't nobody want to use AOL anymore!

@NickKarpen Жыл бұрын

DUDE!!!! Thank you so much! This will save me some $$$ on custom email hosting.

@cameronparry562 3 ай бұрын

Simple and informative 😊

@CMCLures Жыл бұрын

Having issues with step two send email as portion. doesn't seem to want to work. authentication fails every time. doing this through a porkbun domain.

@borisnieminen677 7 ай бұрын

My host doesn't offer email services. So I need t use an SMTP plugin in order for the contact form to be able to send me emails, would this cloudfare routing feature replace that? Also if I am collecting subscribers through , lets say mailchimp or mailpoet, would I be able to receive those subscriber emails via cloudfare routing?

@dav1dw 6 ай бұрын

I've setup gmail smtp to send emails and it goes the the receivers junk mail box. With the more stringent email requirements in place which is looking for DMARC, DKIM etc, this solution is not that great. I've tested Brevo which let's me send emails without emails going to junk. It's a bit more complicated to setup, but it's worth it.

@Craylor 6 ай бұрын

Great point regarding the new email verification requirements. I may have to make an updated video about free custom email solutions

@akogepayo Жыл бұрын

The email feature of cloudflare is only good for forwarding. You cannot reply using the same custom/business email. It is good only if you intend only to use your username@yourdomain for receiving email, and *not* for sending email.

@Killadragon-rt1bq Жыл бұрын

this does not work it constantly just tells me authentication failed even though i have everything correct. now after some time it doesn't even work at all. it just says "oops error 500" why does this have to be so frustrating 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@millennialsdev Жыл бұрын

You explain that very easily! Thanks from Italy

@dragon3602010 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you very much Can we use it even if we didn't buy the domain names on cloudflare itself? Thanks

@DhiaAziz 2 жыл бұрын

I use AOL, but not mainly... Please tell me what is the problem.. I use Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.. I want to understand.. Just a little clarification if I can.. Will I delay this from my work?

@Su-td2ph Жыл бұрын

You are an amazing teacher!

@Arma5666 7 ай бұрын

Did anyone manage to make Gmail custom email sending work? I always get this error at the SMTP step : "Couldn't reach server. Please double-check the server and port number." Also tried with 2FA and an application password. Seems weird that gmail can't reach their own SMTP servers...

@deannawilson3421 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Craylor. I've watched this video and many others on KZfaq, but I am not able to connect my custom email from Cloudflare to my gmail account. I get as far as the "Add another email address you own" page. As soon as I press "Add Account," I always get redirected back to my email account. I never get to the confirmation. Is there anyway to solve this in order to link my email from Cloudflare to Gmail? Thank you in advance.

@temal32 Жыл бұрын

Instead of entering your real google password, you need to enter an app-specific password generated by google.

@temal32 Жыл бұрын

9:50 This big yellow warning message hasn't poped up for me!

@SmartMoneyRyan 3 ай бұрын

just a heads up, adding your custom email to gmail that way using your own gmails smtp, make it not alighn with SPF,DKIM, DMARC. and most will go to spam.

@hiccups1980 Ай бұрын

yes. that is why I prefer simplelogin. It has SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

@SmartMoneyRyan Ай бұрын

@@hiccups1980 for business email?

@onlinedealhacker2069 7 ай бұрын

Is email still available from Cloudflare? I do not see it in the sidebar.

@AI-PhotographyGeek Жыл бұрын

you can do with the Cloud+ subscription if you want.

@duanecastle2220 2 жыл бұрын

dude you're a good teacher. I mean you don't Rock... you Fu*king rock!

@salam7376 Жыл бұрын

Google has disabled the ability to enable less secure apps as of May 2022. Because of this, the previous solution of enabling less secure apps is no longer valid. Steps: Go into your sending email address and make your way to the settings. Find two-step authentication and enable it. Under two-step authentication there should be a tab labeled App passwords. Click on it then select mail as the app and your device of choice Use the password generated from the app password as the password for your Gmail account.

@rvth Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, it worked flawlessly!

@insyri Жыл бұрын

Worked like a charm, thank you!!

@SercanSolmaz Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for saving me from a very big problem, my friend. thank you very much for your efforts.

@3rdtwirl494 2 жыл бұрын

Since adding cloudflare to my site the image resolutions are not showing right . Do you know who to fix it?

@Salman360-YT Ай бұрын

But dmarc rejecting my email, for no dkim 😢

@cheebadigga4092 2 жыл бұрын

So basically mail through CDN? Nice! :D

@balloonvendor 2 жыл бұрын

Cloudflare CDN applies to your web and blog. It has nothing to do with email.

@cheebadigga4092 2 жыл бұрын

@@balloonvendor gotcha thanks.

@HirendraTech Жыл бұрын

There are many free Business Email Provider Like Zoho and other services. Besides unease it is good for the proper brand .

@each1-teach1 Жыл бұрын

but doesnt zoho do the same thing?

@Jesse-cy9hb Жыл бұрын

is the "via gmail" and "spam" problem still exist?

@ajlugov4013 2 жыл бұрын

What is wrong with AOL?

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing and everything at the same time lol

@pattymeneses9269 Жыл бұрын

I need help please I can't send the emails only received

@12nome Жыл бұрын

Whenever i press "Add account" it says its invalid

@riezan 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Can I ask, what's the different between "Treat as an alias" checked and unchecked. Everything works for me except that the gmail profile picture doesn't show up in recipient's inbox.

@grantspins4124 2 жыл бұрын

did you ever find a resolution to this?

@saidkopol4002 Жыл бұрын

I would like to train how youtube ads work

@each1-teach1 Жыл бұрын

how do i do "make default" on outlook?

@xanelle1 Жыл бұрын

PLSS HELPPPP 😭my custom email is just not adding

@zoengart1878 2 жыл бұрын

This is really great! A huge thank you.. &Thanks to Hassan too! 👍

@mateuszb4387 2 жыл бұрын

this is a great video. Everything is working.

@etiennegp Жыл бұрын

I can't receive the validation email please help

@SilentWisdom007 Жыл бұрын

i tried to complete this setup but when i entered the smtp server ,username and password , it always says that authentication is failed , even the details are 100% correct . dont know what is the error here 😞

@TheLibertarian 6 ай бұрын

same here

@rayusaki88 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this vid. Very helpful. I’m a big fan of Cloudflare. Very generous tier for developers. Such a great company

@jns2001 2 жыл бұрын

Use DKIM and DMARK to get rid of those pesky spam announcements.

@CarniFlex1 Жыл бұрын

Do you know how to do this? I have DKiM but i don't know where's to put in cloudflare...!

@houserouterhouserouter5808 Жыл бұрын

Hey, that part while I have to enter gmail without @ part and password doesnt work, it says my user or PW is wrong but it is not, can you help me with that a bit? I have to enter current gmail prefix and its password? Still tells me its wrong xD

@ryanmiller9785 Жыл бұрын

I still had to create a app specific password even though I just created a new email with google and then it worked.

@chrizzirch 2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, ... Why did my previous comment get removed ? (Advising not to forget about SPF must include gmails servers & also using mailgun's service for outbound ??) Wat Da ???? 🤔🤔 #LostRespect

@fredonline 2 жыл бұрын

Exact same thing just happened to my post!

@anmolsaleem9951 2 жыл бұрын

thanks, bro only your video explains very well

@king0vdarkness Жыл бұрын

it doesn't work

@atol71 Жыл бұрын

Nothings free, so you give all your email communications to this company?

@s4300ok Күн бұрын

If you use free gmail, outlook, icloud, etc, it's the same argument.

@andresvaldevit3692 2 жыл бұрын

Mmmm anything involving a hack is quirky to me and I wouldn't use it with my business

@KelvinWKiger Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@MarceloAGonzalezEstrada Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@dwightking8596 2 жыл бұрын

Wao, nice video Johnny

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks K I N G

@vuufke4327 8 ай бұрын

Gilfoyle??

@beammie2858 Жыл бұрын

How do I add profile picture to my alias email? Thanks!

@king0vdarkness Жыл бұрын

hey, you're here too! Alas, this one didn't work for me either! XD

@beammie2858 Жыл бұрын

@@king0vdarkness 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah man. Still stuck on this last part. 😂😭

@letsgetto1millwithoutvids 10 ай бұрын

It keeps saying incorrect username/password Server returned error: "535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted but i have no 2fa and made sure its correct on google

@SmartMoneyRyan 8 ай бұрын

That's because google doesn't even support app passwords anymore. You can only use API keys and auth2

@ruimmelo 7 ай бұрын

I had the same problem, I solved it by enabling 2FA, creating an App Password and then setting my username as my and the password as my

@unexpectedcomputing 2 жыл бұрын

That's insecure. Someone can spoof your real email though.

@alekscorona Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@JoloNavarro 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this!! ❤️

@cloudsystem3740 2 жыл бұрын

thank you very much

@BryanKremkau 2 жыл бұрын

So if you want to receive own domain email in gmail with this method, what do you put in? I'm getting confused on it since I had my own domain's web server in there previously. i want to get rid of godaddy's mail since switching to 365

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

You would want to follow the steps to setup Cloudflare email routing. Make sure your domain name is pointing to Cloudflare. To receive it in Gmail, you simply need a free Gmail inbox to forward it to. Make sure to cancel your GoDaddy email hosting once everything is switched over.

@BryanKremkau 2 жыл бұрын

@@Craylor thanks, i'll try that. next step is to find a shared hosting (not godaddy) that can hold a site that has 25 years worth of content, along with 2 other domains. i know you have a few videos on alternatives, need to narrow down the host. was using ultimate linux hosting on GD.

@po-pi-po Жыл бұрын

unfortunately google smtp won't work if you're using OTP like Yubikey. only raw password will work, which is not secure

@cheruiyotjoseph Жыл бұрын

I use AOL

@ilyeskesri6524 Жыл бұрын

thank you

@ezmeralbandito1342 2 жыл бұрын

Yihaa. Thanks, Man!

@JustFlow.Official 2 жыл бұрын

I like the video, but I still receive an error, after triple checking all infos and following the video step by step. does anyone know why and how to fix it? "Authentication failed. Please check your username/password and Less Secure Apps access for...." I already switched Less secure apps on, still didnt change :(

@playboimaleek3407 2 жыл бұрын

same here! did you find a solution? i use 2fa so i used app specific passwords, however i still get the same issue as you.

@JustFlow.Official 2 жыл бұрын

@@playboimaleek3407 no 2fa used on the account i try :/

@malikonthesus 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustFlow.Official It worked for me! i just turned off 2fa on my cloudflare, and i made a new google account and turned on less secure apps, turned out i was following the tutorial wrong but it works now. the first time i sent an email it got marked as spam so i marked it as "not spam" then it got put in promotional in gmail. but eventually it got put in my main inbox.

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm.. that’s really strange. It worked right away in my testing and when I shot the tutorial. Sorry it’s giving you trouble!

@JustFlow.Official 2 жыл бұрын

@@Craylor No worries, I still have no clue why its not working :/ I'm actually pretty tech savy but running out of ideas here

@olas591 3 ай бұрын

Dinosaur Jr anyone?

@dwightking8596 2 жыл бұрын

Wao, nice video Johnny!

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks K I N G !

@yuyti5034 Жыл бұрын

waiting for the next videos

@groundupempire4606 Жыл бұрын

Awesome until that orange banner… got a business trying cut some costs, can’t risk that …. 365 here I come

@paintersTM Жыл бұрын

nice !!

@Logurt533 Жыл бұрын

MR BEASSSSSST

@peterkarlen 2 жыл бұрын

When using custom Gmail sending I get the "DMARC checks failed" error.

@peterkarlen 2 жыл бұрын

Finally managed to make it work by creating the same email on my hosting and use that for sending via Gmail.

@unboxcrate 2 жыл бұрын

this only works for Gmail desktop correct? it won't work on the app?

@Craylor 2 жыл бұрын

It works on the official Gmail app with no additional setup.

@unboxcrate 2 жыл бұрын

@@Craylor oh i believe the forward will continue to work, my question is for the reply. I believe you can only setup the gmailify on desktop.

@BGdev305 4 ай бұрын

Hack? Work around? Using Gmail to send for domain email has been around AND common forever. I have 20+ domains all alias to ONE gmail for well over 6 or 7 years now.