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Mailflare

Email for professionals and teams

Mailflare

#Mailflare

Mailflare is a self-hosted email inbox for custom domains, built on Cloudflare.

Deploy to Cloudflare

#Screenshots

Inbox
Inbox		 Manage domains
Manage domains		 Manage inboxes
Manage inboxes

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#What you can do

  • Connect domains and set up Cloudflare Email Routing from the dashboard.
  • Create personal and shared mailboxes with delegated access.
  • Send and receive email with attachments, rich formatting, signatures, and automatic replies.
  • Organize mail with search, custom folders, stars, snoozing, archive, spam, and trash.
  • Create routing rules to store, forward, reject, or categorize incoming messages.
  • Get real-time inbox updates and new-message notifications.
  • Import and export mail, manage contacts, and block unwanted senders.
  • Manage accounts, permissions, API keys, webhooks, audit logs, and database backups.

#How it works

Mailflare runs in your Cloudflare account. Email Routing delivers incoming messages to the app, while Cloudflare's email service handles outgoing messages. Your mail data stays in your own D1 database and attachments are stored in your own R2 bucket.

#How much does it cost?

You can setup Mailflare and receive email for free

A Paid Worker plan ($5/month) is required to send email (and it's recommend to have a smooth experience)

#Deploy

Getting started takes three steps:

  1. Deploy the app. Click Deploy to Cloudflare and keep the app name as mailflare. The app will not work correctly under another Worker name.
  2. Complete setup. Open the deployed app and follow /setup to check the installation and create your admin account.
  3. Connect your domain. Add a domain managed by the same Cloudflare account. Mailflare configures its email routing and helps you create the first mailbox.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: CF_TOKEN is required during deployment. Create a scoped Cloudflare API token with the following permissions for the domains you want to connect.

  • All accounts - Email Sending:Edit, DNS Settings:Edit, Email Routing Addresses:Edit
  • All zones - DNS Settings:Edit, Email Routing Rules:Edit, Zone Settings:Edit, DNS:Edit

See the deployment guide for required permissions, manual deployment, backups, and updates.

#Self-host with Docker instead

Mailflare also runs as one container on any server, with SQLite and local files in place of D1 and R2, a built-in SMTP listener for inbound mail (or a small Cloudflare relay Worker if you want to keep MX on Cloudflare), and any SMTP relay or Cloudflare Email Sending for outbound.

cp .env.docker.example .env.docker
docker compose up -d --build

See docs/self-hosting.md.

#Local development

cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars
npm install
npm run db:migrate:local
npm run dev

Add your Cloudflare credentials to .dev.vars, then open http://localhost:3000. For sample local data, run npm run db:seed while the development server is running.

#Documentation

#License

See LICENSE.

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