Introduction to Cloudflare Transactional Email

Cloudflare recently launched their Email Service API. You can now send outbound emails directly from their edge network, which means WordPress users can handle transactional emails without paying for legacy SMTP providers.

Why use Cloudflare for sending?

Most transactional email providers charge high base fees. Worse, their shared IPs are frequently abused, so your emails end up in the spam folder. Cloudflare’s distributed network and domain verification help ensure your password resets, receipts, and notifications actually reach the inbox.

Integrating with WordPress

Instead of writing a custom API integration to talk to Cloudflare, WPFlareMail intercepts the default wp_mail() function in WordPress and reroutes your transactional emails through the Cloudflare API. It handles the integration so you don’t have to configure it yourself.