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Gmail account with custom domain using Cloudflare and Mailgun (free)
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 ’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.
