Gmail account with custom domain using Cloudflare and Mailgun (free)
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Having an email with @customdomain.com is important to level up your brand. You can use a paid service such as Google Workspace to achieve that. There is also another alternative solution, a free one, and I’ll talk about it here.
In this post, I’ll share my experience configuring a personal Gmail account, to make it able to receive and reply to any emails like usual, but using a custom domain.
And it costs $0, great right?!
Handling inbound mail
Say that my domain is managed via Cloudflare, and I use their email routing feature to re-route any incoming email that was originally directed to hello@customdomain.com, to myemail@gmail.com.
Btw, if you are using another domain provider, you can follow Jeremy Gale’s guide in the following link:
To enable the mail routing, navigate to your Cloudflare domain page, go to Email → Email Routing, then toggle on the functionality.
Next, create your desired custom email address (in this post I’ll be using hello@customdomain.com), select Send to an email as the action, and set myemail@gmail.com as the destination.
Thats it! now test it by sending one or two mail(s) to hello@customdomain.com. Cloudflare shall handle the rerouting process and eventually, you will receive it at myemail@gmail.com.
Ok, let's move forward to the next step, which is configuring the outbound.
Handling outbound mail
At this point, even though you are able to retrieve any emails through hello@customdomain.com on your myemail@gmail.com, you will not be able to reply to them using the custom domain email.
