Email forwarding and aliases
Cloudflare Email Routing privacy rating
Free Cloudflare service that forwards mail sent to addresses on a custom domain to existing inboxes or to Cloudflare Workers.
Summary
Cloudflare Email Routing scores 48 out of 100 (grade D) on the email forwarding and aliases criteria. It meets 7 of 15 criteria: no ads or data sales, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, no stored mail, custom domains and Sender Rewriting Scheme. It partly meets security headers and ARC sealing. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, independent audit, end-to-end encryption, open protocols and sign up without personal data. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B+.
Score 48 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The website loads Google Tag Manager and uses cookies for interest-based advertising.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid Cloudflare plans. The privacy policy states that personal information is not sold.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published. Compliance reports are only available to customers.
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Yes
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
Publishes counts of legal requests and how they were handled twice a year.
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Yes
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
Customers are notified of legal requests for their information unless legally prohibited.
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No
End-to-end encryption Weight 2 of 3
Can mail be end-to-end encrypted so that the provider cannot read message contents?
Not supported. Forwarded mail is not encrypted end to end.
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Yes
No stored mail Weight 3 of 3
Is forwarded mail passed through without being written to disk?
Cloudflare states that Email Routing does not store or access email content.
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No
Open protocols Weight 2 of 3
Can any standard app connect over IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV or CardDAV, without extra software?
No IMAP access. Mail is forwarded to existing inboxes, and SMTP sending belongs to the separate Email Sending product.
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Yes
Custom domains Weight 1 of 3
Can mail be sent and received with your own domain?
Works only with custom domains and is free on all plans.
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No
Sign up without personal data Weight 2 of 3
Can an account be created without a phone number or another email address?
A Cloudflare account with an existing email address is required.
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Yes
Sender Rewriting Scheme Weight 2 of 3
Is the envelope sender rewritten with SRS when mail is forwarded, so forwarded mail keeps passing SPF?
The envelope sender of forwarded mail is rewritten with SRS.
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Partial
ARC sealing Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider validate and add ARC (RFC 8617) signatures, so authentication results survive forwarding?
ARC is supported for forwarded mail. Validation of inbound ARC chains is not documented.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A
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Partial
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B+ (80/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.
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Not tested yet
Mail transport security Weight 3 of 3
Does the mail domain enforce encrypted, authenticated delivery with MTA-STS, DANE, DNSSEC, TLS-RPT and an enforced DMARC policy?
Not tested yet.