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Email Routing
Addresses

Create a destination address

email_routing.addresses.create(AddressCreateParams**kwargs) -> Address
POST/accounts/{account_id}/email/routing/addresses

Create a destination address to forward your emails to. Destination addresses need to be verified before they can be used.

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 Addresses Write
ParametersExpand Collapse
account_id: str

Identifier.

maxLength32
email: str

The contact email address of the user.

maxLength90
ReturnsExpand Collapse
class Address: …
id: Optional[str]

Destination address identifier.

maxLength32
created: Optional[datetime]

The date and time the destination address has been created.

formatdate-time
email: Optional[str]

The contact email address of the user.

maxLength90
modified: Optional[datetime]

The date and time the destination address was last modified.

formatdate-time
Deprecatedtag: Optional[str]

Destination address tag. (Deprecated, replaced by destination address identifier)

maxLength32
verified: Optional[datetime]

The date and time the destination address has been verified. Null means not verified yet.

formatdate-time

Create a destination address

import os
from cloudflare import Cloudflare

client = Cloudflare(
    api_email=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
    api_key=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
address = client.email_routing.addresses.create(
    account_id="023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
    email="user@example.com",
)
print(address.id)
{
  "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": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
    "created": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "modified": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "tag": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
    "verified": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z"
  }
}
Returns Examples
{
  "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": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
    "created": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "modified": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "tag": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
    "verified": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z"
  }
}