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title: Enable Email Workers
description: Set up your first Email Worker to process incoming emails with custom logic on Cloudflare Workers.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png
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# Enable Email Workers

Follow these steps to enable and add your first Email Worker. If you have never used Cloudflare Workers before, Cloudflare will create a subdomain for you, and assign you to the Workers [free pricing plan](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/).

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the **Email Routing** page.  
[ Go to **Email Routing** ](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/email/routing)
2. Select **Get started**.
3. In **Custom address**, enter the custom email address you want to use (for example, `my-new-email`).
4. In **Destination**, choose the email address or Email Worker you want your emails to be forwarded to — for example, `your-name@gmail.com`. You can only choose a destination address you have already verified. To add a new destination address, refer to [Destination addresses](https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/setup/email-routing-addresses/#destination-addresses).
5. Select **Create and continue**.
6. Verify your destination address and select **Continue**.
7. Configure your DNS records and select **Add records and enable**.

You have successfully created your Email Worker. In the Email Worker’s card, select the **route** field to expand it and check the routes associated with the Worker.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/directory/","name":"Directory"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/email-routing/","name":"Email Routing"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"/email-routing/email-workers/","name":"Email Workers"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@id":"/email-routing/email-workers/enable-email-workers/","name":"Enable Email Workers"}}]}
```