Gmail Custom Domain Email (Free Cloudflare Updated Method 2023)

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To send email from gmail with a custom domain.
Update: A few people have said they can still get the cloudflare forwarder to gmail, but for many things go to spam, and sometimes things are totally undeliverable. It seems way too janky to recommend cloudflares forwarder at the moment, so the improvmx forwarder seems to be a better choice for now 👍
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[@MaxxPhineas]

2:20 to skip the yapping

[@klejnotnilu5181]

Thanks

[@ShooterDomain]

This was incredibly easy to follow and super clear. Thank you!

[@DhaniSharma2009]

its not working for me... I am able to receive emails but not able to send mails from google ..followed exactly same process...plz can you help

[@KiwiPizzaOven]

Thanks. Works, but in my case Gmail treats these emails as "Promotions", so it is big chance that they will not appear in "Primary' only in 'All Mail".

[@martinacosse137]

do you mean that by using improvmx I will land in spam? thanks

[@HawksleyMike]

Great video - Thanks! Do you think you could add a video showing how to connect this configuration into the iOS email app?

[@MehrTV.]

how to connect smtp of wordpress to the costum email address that we made with "cloudflare and gmail" , please make a video abut this

[@GerardoSabetta]

Thanks for the great explanation, I have a question for you, on minute 10:15 you can see an "Unsubscribe" button I'm supposing it's related to the email headers "list-unsubscribe" is there any way to get rid of that header? I don't want people on the other end of the loop thinking they are part of a mailing list they have never subscribed to and that "Unsubscribe" feature is really getting in the way

[@good.designs]

Thank you so much! Tried this today and all went smooth.

[@hanachirusatosan]

Hey Alex! It seems like email forwarding from cloudflare doesn't work anymore for new domains... It keeps throwing messages that the custom address emails don't exist

[@ProjectorBD]

I found that problem, Cloudflare says they forwarded but my Gmail doesn't show me not even in the spam folder! Then I disabled Cloudflare email forwarding and used my hosting default email but still I'm facing issues. Seems Gmail is going to be very strict nowadays!!

[@MilkyasBekele]

Hello... The SPF records is not working i tried couple of times it is not working would you help me. Thank you

[@andreas_moller]

Great video! Its works. But how to connect to other email provider like outlook spark or other?

[@MattM-df5sf]

@IdeaSpot Why do you always opt to use an SMTP relay instead of "treat as an alias" and using the gmail server settings? What is the advantage of using brevo instead of smtp.gmail.com for sending?

[@amk-55]

Thank you, you are the best Is there another service alternative to brevo because it is not supported in my country?

[@kimtaehujin]

Thank you so much 😭😭

[@sutantoo]

Interested on the yahoo one :)

[@IdeaSpot]

i just made it last week

[@mankiratsingh3940]

Hello, can i warm up this custom email on instantly for cold emailing

[@TheBuddyBuddySystem1]

Will this setup work for Aweber DKIN and SPF? Thanks

[@the_brad9901]

Hey Alex... i have used outlook for a decade. Will this work using outlook (I have optus with it), cheers

[@IdeaSpot]

are you already paying for MS office 365? You will have email include in your account already, you dont need these videos :D

[@ShinyR0]

Followed the guide, everything works, except any email I write under the alias is simply not sending. No error messages on either the receiver, or sender emails. Anyone know how to fix this?

[@gabrielmrva3573]

Keep the "Treat as an alias" checkbox checked at 8:25

[@chiefwiggum5552]

Another excellent video, you should make more! Is there any chance you could do one on setting up Oracle Cloud Email Delivery on the free tier, as I haven't been able to get it to work despite spending hours on it? You have a knack for making tricky things doable.

[@IdeaSpot]

I did actually get that working once... 😅 yes I should have another look

[@king0vdarkness]

10:14 it's going into spam for me :(

[@ProjectorBD]

I experience Brevo's sending quality is bad. All the emails I sent as test email was in the spam folder!

[@dominikagg205]

I have same issue. Any advice, please?

[@naturallydope247]

Thank you for providing a fix to this! It works perfectly.

[@abdesamad6616]

thank you so much for the update. i m your biggest fan. you are really doing an amazing job for the humanity 😊😊

[@martinacosse137]

So you paid a cloudflare custom mail address, right? The free thing is getting improvmx forwarding and gmail working together. But before you paid cloudflare mail hosting, didn't you?

[@IdeaSpot]

No, the only thing you need to buy for this one is the domain name, which can be bought from anywhere (namecheap, godaddy)

[@Wmacrum]

love the video but I am not getting the confirmation link in my gmail. need help

[@parelebolasamockus]

Thank you so much mate this was extremely helpful! thank you for sharing your wisdom with the world :)

[@pingusurmars]

Infomaniak Mail does it without hassle (i think you just need to link your domain and you can use their mail servers)

[@michaelmahzoon6592]

i am not sure if you are going to see this. but thank you man!

[@Mashwishi]

followed all instructions but can't send email.

[@lptt6105]

How do you change the Gmail profile picture for the business email? Thanks. (I'd followed the instructions for this step within the previous version of this video. The common issue seemed to be not being able to receive the Google accounts verification email at the business address)

[@IdeaSpot]

Just try it again another day, sometimes the email won’t come through

[@lptt6105]

@@IdeaSpot I've tried it multiple times over the course of the month. Same result with no verification email coming through. When was the last time this worked for you? Thanks

[@SmartAgency-z9j]

when I try to send a normal email with my domain, how can I solve the problem? Also, how can I add an image to my professional email?

[@nesfinance]

I created my domain and been stuck without the business email

[@TheKingofparis148]

can I add this email to my outlook account? I use outlook to manage all my email accounts in one place.

[@wonderkidsyoutube]

this video for expert only.

[@spreadthegarden]

I'm trying to figure out what "it doesn't work on Cloudflare" means in this context. What exactly isn't working at Cloudflare? All of my email forwarders work there and they are not connected with Gmail. So I am confused as to what exactly is not working.

[@IdeaSpot]

Oh i mean gmail is blocking cloudflare, sorry I could’ve been clearer 😅 if you’re not connecting with gmail then there’s no problem for u 👍

[@spreadthegarden]

@@IdeaSpot This is alarming to me because I am relying heavily on some Cloudflare forwarders going to a kinda "catch all" gmail account that I use. I just tested one of the more important ones and it worked instantly and nicely. But now that I am hearing this I'll have to poke around inside my Cloudflare account and test a bunch of things to make sure nobodies emails are going into the ether. Have your Cloudflare forwarders gone into the gmail spam filters, or just been blocked completely in a hidden way?

[@IdeaSpot]

completely undelivered. some discussion over on cloudflare here: community.cloudflare.com/t/email-forwarded-through-cloudflare-to-gmail-thrown-away/480987/10

No problem with Cloudflare and Gmail. All working flawlessly oj multiple accounts. Not sure where is he facing problems

[@IdeaSpot]

its very inconsistent, some days it will work, sometimes its impossible to get verification emails. After setting up the false spam percentage seems to be pretty high too. What type of domain extension are you on @DominikLackovic1 ? I suspect the .space or .site that I test with don't work as well as .com for example

[@HairoHeria]

10:20 I don't have DKIM pass, only the SPF. Should I be worried?

[@sharkportal]

Any updates these days guys? Would improvmx be a reliable choice "set it and forget it" for 5-10 years ahead? Would you be setting up budget clients' emails like that?

[@redakadoum3840]

Hello sir, please I want to send an email from a company’s email box. Can you help me with that?

[@_Trakman]

Can you do a protonmail with custom domain tutorial

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes that’s worth a look

[@ChrisUnderwoodFaceiro]

The emails show - This message is from a mailing list - Is there a way to get rid of this?

[@aperson1181]

Gmail doesn't work with Cloudflare anymore?

[@MaximumGainMedia]

its not sending to my email what so ever, any troubleshooting suggestions?

[@fabian98n]

is there a way to get a custom icon in the profil picture of the custom email adress?

[@simirock]

Can we change a password? and how it work on phones?

[@CreatingFreedom]

Thank you so much. I ahve been trying to solve this SEND issue for a long time.

[@dennismacwilliams196]

You are a very good teacher, learned a lot today. Thank you. If I could ask maybe just slow up a bit would be helpful, if you could. Thank's again

[@cdsrttr5805]

make tutorials about web hosting sites

[@klejnotnilu5181]

will this be reliable long term?

[@iltonseixasadv]

Can we use AWS SES with Cloudflare Email Routing?

[@yousafsabir7]

Thanks man. Appreciated

[@rcytanon]

Negative experience with Brevo after following the instructions in this video: They suspend accounts without giving reason or notification, and there's no process to provide more information to validate your account and lift the suspension. Made a new account and after sending 4 test emails to myself back and forth to confirm the custom domain routing was working, my account was suspended without any warning or without being notified. I only found out because an email wouldn't send, then when I check the email campaigns page in the dashboard it says there that there is a suspension. I didn't get an email or even some kind of in-website prompt/notification. I opened a customer service ticket asking why and how to remediate, the response said they wouldn't say why my account was suspended and they don't actually have any way to remediate. So basically they just have a non-transparent one-way valve to lose customers.

[@TheKingofparis148]

very nice video!! gained a sub!!!

[@UNITYMusics]

Is there webmail alternative to work with mailgun?

[@dxgrt4449]

please make video about Hostgator problems

[@IdeaSpot]

Oh what’s happening?

[@HarishBhardwajFinance]

how did you add profile picture in the Email?

[@adarsh-chakraborty]

Thank you so much!

[@llkoo9744]

what is the best ecommerce hosting ?

[@islamebeidofficial]

Thanks

[@aapkiawazdilshad]

great. Thank you

[@yawtrader6213]

hi, I did all that but I didn't get an email notification to verify at 9:30 in the video can you help me with some idea on how to get verification?

[@pauloandmishellezamora5531]

did you solve the problem? I'm not getting the verification email either

[@ashwinkonath6646]

Hi I am your subscriber from India I have been using Cloudflare's own email forwarding service to forward emails to my Gmail but since last week I noticed that majority of my emails are not forwarded saying DMARC fail, DKIM status none SPF pass and showing (Gmail has detected this email is suspicious etc ) since the policy change from Gmail, please create a video on this.

[@the_adgi]

Pls do aws setup

[@23mmp]

It´s sending my emails twice, what would I´ve done wrong?

[@23mmp]

just when it has more than one receiver

[@hossainahamed1768]

Thank You Dear!

[@KevinDervin-w2t]

Can I configure multiple custom domain emails via this method? Example... info@, sales@, support@ Or would those each have to be going to different gmail accounts. Hope that makes sense. Great video!

[@naturallydope247]

Yes, you can. I did it with two different ones and I just created a new SMTP key for each of them.

[@GeorgeVasil]

Thanks a lot!

[@goldengamer_lp]

Thanks!

[@richkids001]

You said its free but I'll have to buy a domain

[@josemercado1674]

Buy a domain. Make sure to spend the $20 or $30 bucks for a few years. The time flies by really quickly.

[@ff34jmr]

This to much of an hassle and a disaster waiting to happen if you rely on email which you probably do since you using a custom address. Anyone that needs a custom email might as well pay a couple of euros a month and pay for email.

[@mnvharshavardhan995]

1st Comment, Love from India ❤

[@IdeaSpot]

thanks!!

[@gil.alencar]

Você me salvou aqui no Brasil! Muito obrigado!

[@SilvioSamuge]

Funcionou?

[@fabiobil]

Sim funciona@@SilvioSamuge

[@gil.alencar]

Sim@@SilvioSamuge

[@Harry-tp7qx]

Can you do a video on setting up audiobookshelf on Oracle Cloud free tier?

[@focat]

Is it possible to add a profile picture to your business email?

[@eibel9471]

You just need to create a Google account using your business email, and from there, change the profile picture. It will be automatically reflected when sending emails from the alias

[@the_adgi]

🤝🌚

[@NamalFernando82]

Thanks. I did not receive the confirmation email to gmail from cloudflare when i follow ur previous video. Thanks again for this tutorial.❤

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes this will fix it 👍👍

[@basnagel7881]

@@IdeaSpot Hey man, thanks for this vid, it is great! I do still have the problem where I did not receive the confirmation email to set up the costum avatar. Do you have an idea of how to fix this?

[@IdeaSpot]

I've been testing this - gmail doesn't seem to allow email forwarders (cloudflare or improv) for setting up the custom avatar - I tried setting it up on Zoho to get the avatar, then switched back to improv and that worked around it, so you could try that if you really want your gmail avatar.

[@basnagel7881]

@@IdeaSpot Thanks! I cannot seem to figure out how tho. Is there any chance you could make a vid on this?

[@MustafaSheikh]

Authentication failed. Please check your username/password. Server returned error: "530 Invalid username or password , code: 530" on Gmail popup using Brevo credentials been trying for 3 days :(

[@MustafaSheikh]

2fa on too

[@m3ddah]

me too

[@jperusm]

I'm currently using ZeptoMail and is working fine, though the bounce email address and domain validation is a little confusing but it's free too!

[@IdeaSpot]

Cool, I should look at this for comparison too

[@147naveen]

@IdeaSpot yes definitely interested in Yahoo method as it would allow us access to 1TB storage. I tried setting this up but for send as, couldn't find a SMTP option like we have on Gmail. But forwarding works flawlessly, no reply emails are not being blocked like Gmail does.

[@IdeaSpot]

cool, I'll do some more testing. 👍

[@rizkym2999]

Yeah me too

[@oamigo]

Hey, always saving lives. Thanks again!!!