Deep Dive
8 min readHow Workers-native email routing actually processes your inbound mail
A tour of the runtime: Email Routing, the Worker, the R2 bucket for attachments, and the D1 tables behind a single inbound message.
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Journal
Operator notes on Cloudflare-native email.
Long-form writing about self-hosted email in D1, Workers-native routing, the REST API, and the parts of the platform that show up in the security review.
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Tutorial
8 min readWiring your product into the inbox: REST API and webhooks for email automation
The shape of the Flowmails API, when to use webhooks vs polling, and a worked example of inbound-to-ticket automation in 30 lines.
Deep Dive
10 min readCloudflare Email Routing alternative: the parts that need a layer on top
Cloudflare Email Routing is the world's best front door for inbound mail. It isn't a database, an inbox UI, a REST API, or a send path. Here's what you add — and why the answer is a self-hosted Worker, not another SaaS.