You moved your domain to Cloudflare Registrar. Where does email live now?

Cloudflare's registrar documentation says you buy and renew domains at cost, paying only what the registry and ICANN charge, with DNSSEC and redacted WHOIS included (developers.cloudflare.com/registrar, checked 6 October 2026). It says nothing about email because there is nothing to say: no mailbox, no webmail, no bundled Workspace trial.

That is a feature, not an oversight. Registrars that bundle email usually fund the cheap domain with the email renewal. Cloudflare charges nothing on the domain and leaves email to you, which means you get to pick the host on its merits rather than inheriting whatever was pre-ticked at checkout.

Email Routing is the right first stop if all you need is to receive. Enable it under Email in the dashboard, pick a destination address, confirm it, and Cloudflare adds the MX and SPF records itself. Cloudflare's guide says the change usually completes within five to fifteen minutes on Cloudflare DNS. The limits page allows 200 rules per domain and 200 verified destinations per account, which is more than a person will use.

The moment you need to answer as the domain, Routing stops being enough. We wrote up the symptoms and the fixes in Cloudflare Email Routing can't send, so this page will not repeat them. The short version is that replying needs a mailbox, and a mailbox needs a host.

Your DNS stays at Cloudflare whichever host you choose. The host gives you MX records that say where to deliver, an SPF record that says who may send, a DKIM key that signs what you send, and a DMARC policy that tells receivers what to do when something fails. You add those in the Cloudflare DNS editor, type by type, with the proxy switched off on anything that names a mail server.

Or you let the host do it. Faivelo asks for a one-time authorisation on your Cloudflare account, writes every record DNS-only, checks that Email Routing is not still holding the MX, and verifies the lot. The whole thing is a few minutes and is written up step by step in the Cloudflare setup guide. After that, Cloudflare keeps the domain and the DNS; Faivelo keeps the mailboxes.

Whichever route you take, run the domain through a DNS checker once the records are in. It should show one MX set pointing at one host, a single SPF record, a DKIM key the host can find, and a DMARC policy. Two MX sets means Routing is still on. Two SPF records means an old one was never removed, which fails authentication outright. The free email checkup reads all of this and tells you what to fix.

Then send yourself a message from an outside account and reply to it. If the reply arrives with your domain in the From line and no "via" note, you are done.