Forward Email - Email Forwarding Service

We're the only service that respects your privacy and never stores your emails.

https://forwardemail.net

i <3 forwardemail. thank you for building this!

Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in.

Site: https://forwardemail.net

Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup

Don't determine the users language by the country the request is coming from. My browser wants English, despite me being in Germany, so don't show me the German page. The good thing though was that besides the language selector nothing else was translated.

It actually doesn't determine it by the country the request is coming from.

How it works is fully documented here: https://github.com/ladjs/i18n#i18nmiddlewarectx-next

1) Check URL (e.g. if /de or /de/ then it's a de locale - as long as de is a supported locale)

2) Use the custom function (if provided by the detectLocale parameter) for locale detection

3) Check the "locale" cookie value (or whatever the cookie option is defined as)

4) Check Accept-Language header

Regarding nothing being translated, there was an issue with our locales folder sync and that's being resolved soon!

I was recently looking for an email forwarding service to use for a few months, initially I was searching Github for a decent OSS project that could do this for me, which is when I found your repo for Forward Email. The repo code was exactly what I was looking for, but after browsing your site and noticing how open and transparent it all was, I was instantly sold and bought the Enhanced package.

So ultimately, your open source code and business transparency[0] is what convinced me to pay instead of self-host.

Thank you for making it.

[0] https://forwardemail.net/en/open-startup

Super cool. How do you prevent your sending from ending up in spam folders?

We're working on Spam Scanner because we weren't happy with rspamd nor SpamAssassin or any other archaic or non-trivial closed-door tech. See https://spamscanner.net for more!

I use and pay for https://anonaddy.com/ its also FOSS and can be self hosted.

Quick question that I couldn't find in your FAQ: Can you reply to forwarded emails? As in can you communicate back and forth with someone sending emails to an alias?

I've used a free email forwarding service which didn't give me this functionality (maybe this isn't common practice).

That is not possible with forwarded emails. You need an actual SMTP server to send emails from your domain.

Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!

Safari cannot open the page.

The error was “could not decode raw data”

Looks like you've gotten the HN hug of death

Just a normal DDoS that we're mitigating

Resolved

I use this and it works great!

I use it ♥

I built https://forwardemail.net as the costs went up and I needed a cheaper alternative for my domains. Any questions feel free to email me, nick@forwardemail.net

I would love to use it. The only challenge for me is that hubspot only sends emails via gmail/gsuite

Working on an open source alternative, email me at niftylettuce@gmail.com if you want to try the beta.

We're the team behind https://forwardemail.net

Everything 100% transparent, open-source, privacy-focused, with fair pricing

Can I ask how this is an alternative to DocuSign? I like what your product is offering - actually something I've considered as I use a built in forwarder from namecheap and it's sometimes painfully slow, but DocuSign's big business is in electronic signing of documents, right? The only times I've had to use it was buying a house and once signing an offer letter for a job.

FE is not an alternative, we're building something separate with the same team (just a beta, experimental side project).

While I personally have no direct use for it, forwardemail looks like an amazing service.

I'm just wondering about the commitment that you will never increase prices - that seems kind of unsustainable? Even if cost goes down over time, inflation tends to move pretty fast these days, quickly eroding your real earnings.

I built https://forwardemail.net to save money and time on email hosting/SMTP.

If you just need email forwarding... without logs and no storage to disk... here's something I made: https://forwardemail.net

This might be cool and something I would use, but I’ll never know because apparently I have to watch and listen to a video in order to get details.

You can look into mine (https://hanami.run) very fast to sign up and have a few cool features about webhook or smtp.

Also, improvmx.com is a great product as well.

If you like open source, https://maddy.email/ is a single binary deployment that can handle everything even IMAP.

https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/ is a dockerize solution with super detail document as well.

Thanks! I spent quite some time on your site and am impressed, especially with your transparency as founder. One suggestion: it is clear the content is not written by a native English speaker. At first this created doubts for me, it just feels less professional.

Suggest you hire an editor to fix up your content… or contact me and I’ll do it for free.

Are you a CIA honeypot?

Yeah. I built Bree @ https://jobscheduler.net

It has support for worker threads + cron + human strings

GH: https://github.com/breejs/bree

This is cool. Our use case was very simple so we went with node-schedule but this may have more upsides. I've had trouble with the former. Thanks.

I helped maintain all the Node.js node/cron/agenda libraries. Just switch to Bree and your troubles will be gone.

I'm a happy jQuery/Bootstrap user @ https://forwardemail.net.

The site scores ~100% on Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights and is ranked #1.

Open-startup @ https://forwardemail.net/open-startup!

Completely open-source too @ https://github.com/forwardemail

Yes but if you’re not using the latest JS framework how do you get girls.

This. I was a happy Rails dev but html over the wire wasn’t cutting it at the club anymore. So I had to switch to React and now I’m married.

Just kidding. My wife loves Rails.

Jokes on you, html over the wire is HOT NEW SH*T.

https://hotwire.dev/

server-side blazor does similar.

never checked out web dev with dotnet, but maybe I will check out blazor I keep hearing cool things

Upvote. Made me literal lol.

Super cool. I really like that you can also reply using this service to each individual inbox. Like a universal inbox but not married to any specific client/app. Maybe suggest making that a little more easier to learn on your marketing homepage.

For your current users, are you seeing them use this more like the demo gym owner video or for other use cases? Thanks

So many cases. Some are using this on hundreds of sub-domains. I hope to launch SMTP and regex support soon. Then... it has final form, power level over 9000.

From your FAQ

> No. Prices will never increase. Unlike other companies, we will never shutdown our service either.

How can you guarantee this?

There are only two ways I think this can work.

Their price completely covers every user signed up at any scale. If they lose all but 1 customer, that customer can keep the lights with just their subscription.

The other is that company has such a large warchest it'd be impossible to run out of money.

I would not start this business if I could not keep it going. Period. Even beyond my lifetime. I keep things simple - when I started I had so many struggles, and wish something like this existed. I have contingency plans in place if something happens. My philosophy is outlined in the documentation for Lad.

Do you use automatic translation? At least the German version feels a bit odd.

Yeah, Google Translate via the npm package "mandarin" I made @ https://www.npmjs.com/package/mandarin. I planned to hire curators to go through the JSON files and clean it up - though I'm incredibly surprised that open source contributors have come forward (sometimes for their first time doing a PR) to submit fixes to locales. I give them free service for several years for their help.

Wow 15k??? That's impressive. I use another email forwarder but haven't been happy with it, maybe I'll switch.

Nice open start up page! Congrats on success, will be signing up for the free plan with my domain!

Offtopic but thanks for launching this.

A happy customer.

Very glad to have you Tycho.

I encourage you to instead try out https://forwardemail.net. I'm launching our browser extension and our SMTP service very soon. It's completely open-source and free. No logging either. We're the only service that doesn't write emails let alone logs to disk nor store any metadata.

You can use unlimited custom domains and create disposable aliases on the fly as well!

(I'm the creator, lmk any questions!)

Should always use two or more of such services in a cascade to generate a mix network for true anonymity. Wait: The E-Mail forwarder would actually need to remove the To: fields to support this...

the future was here: https://www.mixminion.net/

Hi niftylettuce – I'm working on something similar – Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io].

I've discovered some cool new products in this thread and Forward Email looks great. I'm glad there are other people out there working on solving this problem!

> “ Unlike other services, we do not keep logs nor metadata, never read emails, and are 100% open-source.”

So how do you prevent abuse?

I created tools such as https://spamscanner.net and use ARC + ARF.

I'm familiar with DKIM and SPF, but haven't come across the acronyms ARC or ARF before?

Super easy to set up, thanks!