Up until now, I’ve been using Cloudflare Email Routing to forward all emails sent to the [email protected] email address to my personal iCloud email. This is seamless to configure, as Cloudflare is my domain registrar and keeper of my DNS fiefdom. However, this service is a one-way pipe: if I want to respond to emails, I have to do so from my personal email.

I’ve now migrated to Apple Mail’s Custom Email Domain support, which is bi-directional. This fits in nicely alongside iCloud Hide My Email that I’ve been using to create ephemeral email addresses to sign up to services and obfuscate my real iCloud address. You do require a paid iCloud+ subscription for both these services, however.

Both Cloudflare Email Forwarding and iCloud+ Custom Email Domains support subaddressing too, which is neat. Wrt spam, Cloudflare also offers Email Address Obfuscation to automagically hide emails from bots. I find that I still receive some crypto-spam emails, but nothing egregious (and I suspect those mostly stem from it being on my GitHub profile page).

I also considered Proton Mail’s (paid) custom domain support, but opted for Apple Mail since that’s my default client and I already subscribe to iCloud+. In any case, this is just a small quality-fof-life improvement!