Is it possible to connect a mailbox for warm-up if your domain is connected to Cloudflare?
Theoretically, you can connect your mailbox to Warmy, but we strongly do not recommend doing this for a number of reasons:
- First of all, Cloudflare is busy forwarding your incoming mail, which is already undesirable for warming up.
A significant part of Warmy's algorithms work on IMAP requests, which allows letters in your mail to be automatically read, removed from spam, marked as important, reply to letters, chat in threads, archive emails, delete emails, etc.
Due to Cloudflare redirects, all this functionality becomes unavailable (Warmy cannot access these emails and does not see them) - If you do not want to use IMAP requests for a warm-up and want to use only SMTP requests for sending, then in this case there are also some nuances.
To connect to Cloudflare, you will need to make changes to the server's DNS records and change the Nameservers. As a consequence, due to these changes, most mailboxes in the Warmy environment will reject receiving emails and you will receive bounced emails, which is VERY BAD for your reputation. - Also, due to encryption directly with Cloudflare, Warmy may lose contact with your warm-up emails and will not be able to track them, and consequently, they will also not be processed on the side of other users.
You can try to connect your mail if it is Gmail, but we do not guarantee the quality, as this is a "crutch method" https://jhart99.com/cloudflare-outbound-email/#spf-and-you
