How much do existing services trust new email service providers? It would seem to be an uphill battle for Cloudflare to start a new service. It's easy to automate from the start, meaning it's easier to send spam. I suppose reputation is not simply based on the domain the email comes from?

I'm having a hard time figuring out if I could use this as a replacement for something like AWS WorkMail or E365. The "Agentic" inbox looks really nice, but is this intended for humans to use? I am really confused due to the marketing hype.

Good! However, ...

Sending and receiving is in my mind the easy part. The hardest part is to make this work with actual AI agents. This is the same problem as with sub-agent communication because you need to implement all kinds of additional fictionality to ensure the agent is not just responding for no good reason, go into loops, etc.

My $0.02 from experience.

It's certainly interesting that they provide an email service now. In their documentation/blog recommendations they switched their recommended approach twice or three times already.

If they establish a solid email solution I will likely use that for some of the projects I'm hosting there.

>Everyone already has an email address, which means everyone can already interact with your application or agent. And your agent can interact with anyone.

please no.

>Sending email that actually reaches inboxes usually means wrestling with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. When you add your domain to Email Service, we configure all of it automatically. Your emails are authenticated and delivered, not flagged as spam.

this is going to be an absolute nightmare for spam. i cant exactly block all of cloudflare...

it would be nice if anyone at cloudflare could write about how they plan to proactively reduce abuse of this feature, how they will respond to spam reports, what the punishment for abuse will be, etc.

If I get one email from your agent, I'm torching your entire domain.

How might this affect https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agentmail?

> Email is the most accessible interface in the world

Email is one of the most gatekept interfaces in the world.

I can use this to set up my own custom mail service, like an alternative to gmail? Or at the very least, my own personal mail provider?

$0.35 per 1,000 emails it's fair pricing.

Looks better than fixed $20 for Resend.