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Mail Forwarding With Mailgun and CloudFlare

After moving my DNS from Namecheap to CloudFlare I lost the ability to use Namecheap as a mail forwarder. For anyone not sure what that is, essentially it allows you to receive email at anyname@your-domain.com and have it automatically forwarded somewhere else (like your personal Gmail account).
So, what I did is leverage a free account with Mailgun to setup the same thing.
Mailgun Setup


Create a Mailgun account
Add your domain name (no www)

domain.com
Keep the page open and open a new tab to CloudFlare

Cloudflare


Choose your site and select DNS Settings
Add the two Text records
Add the CNAME record

Make sure the cloudflare cloud is gray and not orange/active


Add the two MX records

Name domain.com (no www)
Mail handled by mxa.mailgun.org or mxb.mailgun.org


Back at Mailgun


Click add

Click Check DNS Records Now


It'll tell you once it detects the updated DNS records

Email Forwarding


From Mailgun, choose Routes
Create Your First Route
Priority 10
Filter Expression This is where you list the email address you want to forward to gmail

match_recipient("you@domain.com")
Actions This is the gmail address you want to receive your mail

forward("me@gmail.com")
Description Name it something so you remember what it's for

Use Gmail to send mail from your domain


Log in to Gmail and go to settings
Go to Accounts and Import
Go to Send mail as and select add another email you own

name: Anything you want
email address: name@domain.com (this should be the email you set up in the steps before)
Leave treat as an alias checked
Click Next Step
For the following info you'll need to login to mailgun and use the info under Domain Information
SMTP Server Use SMTP Hostname from Mailgun
Username Use Default SMTP Login from Mailgun
Password Use Default Password from Mailgun
Leave Secured connection using TLS selected
Click add account


Once it's verified you should be able to compose emails and list your new email in the from line so nobody needs to know it's coming from your personal gmail account.