# 📬 Your own email on your own domain — free to receive, free to send **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** tools, privacy, self-hosted-tools\ **Created:** [October 12, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/your-own-email-on-your-own-domain-free-to-receive-free-to-send/326413 "2026-10-12T19:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RoohNooh](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/roohnooh/32/166257_2.png) [@RoohNooh](https://onehack.st/u/RoohNooh)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/your-own-email-on-your-own-domain-free-to-receive-free-to-send/326413/1 "2026-10-12T19:47:58Z")
### 📬 Your own email address — for the price of a domain ![A mail box split in two halves: the green IN slot marked FREE, the grey OUT slot marked 100 A DAY — your own email address, receive free, send free, your name on your domain](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/5/3/5345a3e37ec3eac2fbce61e8a102f6e3ae0391fe.jpeg) **Ten dollars a year, and your mail says `you@yourdomain.com` instead of `yourname@gmail`.** That is the whole pitch. No per-seat bill, no server humming in a corner, no monthly charge that quietly multiplies when your team grows. Somebody built a real inbox that lives inside a **Cloudflare account you already own** — and the free path is not a catch-laden trial, it is how the thing is meant to run. **🎯 Why it matters:** a proper inbox — folders, rules, attachments, a calendar, even a public booking page — on your own address, for about the price of the domain. **✨ What makes it unique:** nothing runs on your hardware. No Postfix, no port 25, no reputation to earn over months. Cloudflare and Resend send from infrastructure the internet already trusts. **❤ Why you should care:** the address follows you forever, it survives every job change, and it costs less than a coffee for the whole year. ### 📬 How the two halves work Picture a letterbox on your own front door. ```auto you@yourdomain.com | +-----+-----+ | | IN OUT free free Cloudflare Resend Email Routing or Amazon SES ``` **Mail comes in** through Cloudflare Email Routing. It is free on every plan, it runs on the Cloudflare DNS you may already have, and Cloudflare’s own promise is that it _“will not store or access the emails routed to your inbox”_. **Mail goes out** through a sender you pick, **separately for each domain**. Resend and Amazon SES both come with free tiers that genuinely work. That detail is exactly where most reviews trip — more on it below. ### 🧠 Four surprises worth knowing **1. The licence is AGPL-3.0, not MIT.** The bookmark that led here said MIT, and so do plenty of write-ups. The repository’s own `LICENSE` file says otherwise, and GitHub agrees with the file. Anyone planning to run a modified copy as a paid service should read that clause first. **2. “It is not really free” is a half-truth about one send path.** Cloudflare’s own sender does need the **$5/month** Workers plan — a genuine cliff, on one of three routes. The README says the quiet part plainly: _“set up Mailflare, receive mail, and send mail for free.”_ **3. Resend gives 3,000 a month — and only 100 a day.** The daily number is the one that bites, and it counts mail you _receive_ as well as mail you send. Three domains are included. Your other free door is Amazon SES: a **$200** starter credit, roughly **2 million** emails. **4. The README is more honest than the website.** The marketing page promises _“zero recurring subscription fees”_ and then sells a branding-and-team upgrade, while shared mailboxes sit behind the **Team licence**. The repository prints the real table instead. Trust the table, every time. ### 🚫 Why this beats running a mail server Because the hard part was not the software. Four gates stand in a fixed order: **SPF, DKIM, DMARC** , then **reverse DNS** , then a clean **blocklist** , then **port 25** , which most hosts simply block. Miss one and your message looks sent and quietly vanishes. As one 2026 write-up puts it, email _“depends on something you cannot install: reputation.”_ Mailflare skips all four by handing the sending to a relay. That is the entire trick — and it is why a project five months old can stand in for a per-seat subscription. ### 🔗 Grab these - **[Mailflare](https://github.com/hieunc229/mailflare)** — the app itself: 4,957★, AGPL-3.0, one-click deploy - **[Its README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hieunc229/mailflare/main/README.md)** — the author’s own cost table: where free ends - **[Cloudflare Email Routing](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/email-routing/)** — the free receiving half - **[Cloudflare routing limits](https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/limits/)** — the caps, straight from the source - **[Resend’s free limits](https://www.resend.com/docs/knowledge-base/account-quotas-and-limits)** — 3,000 a month, 100 a day, 3 domains - **[The hands-on review](https://paulobrien.com/mailflare-serverless-self-hosted-email-review/)** — fit, trade-offs, what setup really takes - **[ImprovMX](https://improvmx.com/pricing)** — forward-only and free: 1 domain, 25 aliases, 500 a day - **[Forward Email](https://forwardemail.net/en/pricing)** — free forwarding with 10 GB of storage - **[Zoho Forever Free](https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html)** — 5 real mailboxes, no IMAP or POP - **[mailcow vs Stalwart vs Mailu](https://wz-it.com/en/blog/mailcow-stalwart-mailu-comparison/)** — the heavier route, where you own the reputation problem too ### ⚖ The honest fit Delightful for anyone already using Cloudflare for DNS who enjoys a little tinkering. Less so for anyone wanting hands-off mail with a support line, or mail the host cannot read — yours lives in your own Cloudflare account, which is ownership rather than end-to-end encryption. **🎯 Connect a domain, and from tonight your mail carries your own name. Receive free, send free, 100 a day, about $10 a year — and it belongs to you alone.**