API Reference

Email Routing

Rules

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Create routing rule

client.EmailRouting.Rules.New(ctx, params) (*EmailRoutingRule, error)

POST/zones/{zone_id}/email/routing/rules

Rules consist of a set of criteria for matching emails (such as an email being sent to a specific custom email address) plus a set of actions to take on the email (like forwarding it to a specific destination address).

Security

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Email Routing Rules Write

ParametersExpand Collapse

params RuleNewParams

ZoneID param.Field[string]

Path param: Identifier.

maxLength32

Actions param.Field[[]Action]

Body param: List actions patterns.

Type ActionType

Type of supported action.

One of the following:

const ActionTypeDrop ActionType = "drop"

const ActionTypeForward ActionType = "forward"

const ActionTypeWorker ActionType = "worker"

Value []stringoptional

Matchers param.Field[[]Matcher]

Body param: Matching patterns to forward to your actions.

Type MatcherType

Type of matcher.

One of the following:

const MatcherTypeAll MatcherType = "all"

const MatcherTypeLiteral MatcherType = "literal"

Field MatcherFieldoptional

Field for type matcher.

Value stringoptional

Value for matcher.

maxLength90

Enabled param.Field[RuleNewParamsEnabled]optional

Body param: Routing rule status.

const RuleNewParamsEnabledTrue RuleNewParamsEnabled = true

const RuleNewParamsEnabledFalse RuleNewParamsEnabled = false

Name param.Field[string]optional

Body param: Routing rule name.

maxLength256

Priority param.Field[float64]optional

Body param: Priority of the routing rule.

minimum0

ReturnsExpand Collapse

type EmailRoutingRule struct{…}

ID stringoptional

Routing rule identifier.

maxLength32

Actions []Actionoptional

List actions patterns.

Type ActionType

Type of supported action.

One of the following:

const ActionTypeDrop ActionType = "drop"

const ActionTypeForward ActionType = "forward"

const ActionTypeWorker ActionType = "worker"

Value []stringoptional

Enabled EmailRoutingRuleEnabledoptional

Routing rule status.

One of the following:

const EmailRoutingRuleEnabledTrue EmailRoutingRuleEnabled = true

const EmailRoutingRuleEnabledFalse EmailRoutingRuleEnabled = false

Matchers []Matcheroptional

Matching patterns to forward to your actions.

Type MatcherType

Type of matcher.

One of the following:

const MatcherTypeAll MatcherType = "all"

const MatcherTypeLiteral MatcherType = "literal"

Field MatcherFieldoptional

Field for type matcher.

Value stringoptional

Value for matcher.

maxLength90

Name stringoptional

Routing rule name.

maxLength256

Priority float64optional

Priority of the routing rule.

minimum0

DeprecatedTag stringoptional

Routing rule tag. (Deprecated, replaced by routing rule identifier)

maxLength32

Create routing rule

Go

HTTP

TypeScript

Python

Go

Terraform

package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"

  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/email_routing"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/option"
)

func main() {
  client := cloudflare.NewClient(
    option.WithAPIKey("144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194"),
    option.WithAPIEmail("user@example.com"),
  )
  emailRoutingRule, err := client.EmailRouting.Rules.New(context.TODO(), email_routing.RuleNewParams{
    ZoneID: cloudflare.F("023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"),
    Actions: cloudflare.F([]email_routing.ActionParam{email_routing.ActionParam{
      Type: cloudflare.F(email_routing.ActionTypeForward),
    }}),
    Matchers: cloudflare.F([]email_routing.MatcherParam{email_routing.MatcherParam{
      Type: cloudflare.F(email_routing.MatcherTypeLiteral),
    }}),
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err.Error())
  }
  fmt.Printf("%+v\n", emailRoutingRule.ID)
}

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "a7e6fb77503c41d8a7f3113c6918f10c",
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "forward",
        "value": [
          "destinationaddress@example.net"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "enabled": true,
    "matchers": [
      {
        "type": "literal",
        "field": "to",
        "value": "test@example.com"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Send to user@example.net rule.",
    "priority": 0,
    "tag": "a7e6fb77503c41d8a7f3113c6918f10c"
  }
}

Returns Examples

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "a7e6fb77503c41d8a7f3113c6918f10c",
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "forward",
        "value": [
          "destinationaddress@example.net"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "enabled": true,
    "matchers": [
      {
        "type": "literal",
        "field": "to",
        "value": "test@example.com"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Send to user@example.net rule.",
    "priority": 0,
    "tag": "a7e6fb77503c41d8a7f3113c6918f10c"
  }
}