[image] Difficult forum onboarding with iCloud Hide My Email, Cloudflare, and custom... meta FYI: The onboarding for this forum was inordinately difficult and took about 45 minutes. It seems there's something about the confirm…

[image] notriddle: Emails come through apparently without any sender email address, causing them to encounter an error in Cloudflare. If we can get a clear explanation of the problem, we can look into it. e.g. how does Cloudflare figure into this? This means that only emails sent from de…

I had a few minutes to try and help, plus I tend to raise an eyebrow when someone claims “bug”. Hope it helps. [image] Difficult forum onboarding with iCloud Hide My Email, Cloudflare, and custom... meta Is Dir1 the user with…

It sounds like it’s not iCloud, but icloud “Hide My Email”. You can try turning off normalize emails site setting. it turns out that making up bogus email addresses to keep Discourse from knowing your real email address is exactly the same as making up bogus email addresses so that you can create …

Okay, I actually have iCloud+, so I tried using Hide My Email (ntrdl-2025), and it worked fine. It turns out that’s not the problem, either. Anything else that I should try?

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notriddle (Michael Howell) June 30, 2025, 11:17pm 6

Yes, this seems like a non-working email setup. Thank you for helping diagnose it!

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