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I had a similar experience. I like making distribution lists with the company name, so cloudflare@domain.com. I suspect something in their system thinks these are test emails and I could never receive any email. I couldn't verify my email and I couldn't log in to contact support. I eventually emailed them, but they basically responded to login and get support, which was never going to happen since I wasn't receiving emails from them. Sad thing for Cloudflare, I was representing a large client that was exploring an enterprise contract but I could never get an account setup and verified to evaluate Cloudflare.


I do the same with a domain catchall, and I've received emails from Cloudflare just fine.

Then again, if there were emails I've not been getting from them, I would be none the wiser.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people do username+cloudflare@gmail.com, so excluding it outright would be really silly.




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