FWIW, I use forwardemail.net. Been using them a few years and haven't had any issues. They've got a free plan but you have to put your email in the public DNS record, or $3/mo to keep your email private.
Not affiliated, just a happy customer. The biggest issue now is that my email addresses always confuse humans. They're always like "Your email address is MyCompany@YourDomain.com?" And I'm like yes... I don't work for your company, that's... I don't really want to explain this.
I have the same "confuse humans" problem. I use CloudFlare to forward ${company}@accounts.${me}.com to a personal GMail. I've had a limited number of cases where the sender will accept the address, but internally fail to send to it, Costco being one of them (the person in-store at Costco couldn't get over the address)
Originally every time I had a domain and start a project, I have to setup email. Other services always lack something that I want. So I ended up building my own and has been growing it since 2021.
We had some very advanced routing rule based on regex, and wildcard domain, work in progress to support sieve filter. Had web-hook and API so you can do some cool thing with emails.
I already had an email somewhere. Anytime I got a new domain, I just want to forward to that email. Consolidate all of my email in a single place. And support SMTP so I can also reply through the domain as well.
I want a dead simple way to manage these alias, help family all know what is up by forwarding all emails to their individual emails.
I don't want to get charge per sear, or have to convince the others to switch to a new mailbox. Just forward to them.
I had stuff like kid@ travel@ school@ insurance@ forward both to my wife and me for example.
CloudFlare isn't easy to use for a non-tech person to manage their email. It also require that you point the DNS to CloudFlare. If the DNS is on Route53, you cannot use Cloudflare.
ImprvoMX is something I really admire but I just need more feature they don't support at the time (Maillog, webhook, regex routing, search email) So I build this for me as a user and have. been growing it.
With the alias, I can also block/null route after a certain use when I don't want to hear from that alias anymore. Impossible to do with a standalone inbox.
My wife love it. She got her own domain and use it when signing for deal/coupon website then null route the alias to prevent being bombarding later on.
When I've used another forwarding service in the past, things were weird with calendar and drive. I don't think drive is fixable but I'm curious if you have a working setup for calendar?
Hmm... My setup is that when I invite client for a call, I do this from my personal gmail and include business email as attendant (which goes through Gmailify). Now, when I get confirmation, I can confirm for both that they will attend, but I didn't try to see if I can open calendar with this other email. Based on this it sounds like it exists somewhere, but I really don't care as I have too many different things and all I want is to use my gmail accnt and look professional enough.
Hope this makes sense and sorry if it took longer to respond.
Is this necessary? Gmail and Namecheap do this for free. I recently set up a domain and was able to set up Gmail and Mail.app to both send and receive as that email.
I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem.
The Namecheap email forwarding service quietly drops all email it thinks is spam. And their spam filter is too aggressive. There is no way to know that an email was dropped. I missed a lot if emails until I figured this out.
Yes, exactly this. Mailwip has 2 features to discover this
1- Mailog(opt-in, disable by default): Once enabling you can choose the detail of logging to see the delivery status.
2- Spam digest: (opt-in, disable by default). We will send a daily summarize if there is email we flagged and didn't forward to you.
Ugh. Thank you for mentioning this. I've actually forgotten about their spam filter dropping emails rather than letting downstream providers handle it.
Most of the time these service works. But when it doesn't work you just don't know how to debug it.
Mailwip.com has a mail log with the detail so you can debug delivery issue. Also, manage email with namecheap ui dns is something I just don't want to deal with.
I want some nice UI, that also enable a few member of family to self-manage the domain and forward rule.
Sometime I also want to have webhook to parse receipt email from the bank. So I ended up building all of this.
If gmail and namecheap works for you, no need to look further.
I'm in the same boat, custom domain, but I'd like to get away from a US-hosted mail service if possible. Problem is, gDocs is pretty good for the price. I wish Proton had more workspace products like that.
The problem I've always had when forwarding addresses, at least to my Gmail, is that Gmail seems to credit all forwarded spam to the forwarding address, so if your forwarded email gets a lot of spam, it quickly starts sending a large percentage of even the legitimate forwarded email to spam. Is there a solution to that issue?
Instead I've taken to using the pop download option, but that has its own issues (mostly the long delay between downloads).
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Not affiliated, just a happy customer. The biggest issue now is that my email addresses always confuse humans. They're always like "Your email address is MyCompany@YourDomain.com?" And I'm like yes... I don't work for your company, that's... I don't really want to explain this.
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Originally every time I had a domain and start a project, I have to setup email. Other services always lack something that I want. So I ended up building my own and has been growing it since 2021.
We also had a RayCast extension developer by Xmok https://www.raycast.com/xmok/mailwip
We had some very advanced routing rule based on regex, and wildcard domain, work in progress to support sieve filter. Had web-hook and API so you can do some cool thing with emails.
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If you just want forwarding, there are free options like Cloudflare or ImprovMX.
I already had an email somewhere. Anytime I got a new domain, I just want to forward to that email. Consolidate all of my email in a single place. And support SMTP so I can also reply through the domain as well.
I want a dead simple way to manage these alias, help family all know what is up by forwarding all emails to their individual emails.
I don't want to get charge per sear, or have to convince the others to switch to a new mailbox. Just forward to them.
I had stuff like kid@ travel@ school@ insurance@ forward both to my wife and me for example.
CloudFlare isn't easy to use for a non-tech person to manage their email. It also require that you point the DNS to CloudFlare. If the DNS is on Route53, you cannot use Cloudflare.
ImprvoMX is something I really admire but I just need more feature they don't support at the time (Maillog, webhook, regex routing, search email) So I build this for me as a user and have. been growing it.
With the alias, I can also block/null route after a certain use when I don't want to hear from that alias anymore. Impossible to do with a standalone inbox.
My wife love it. She got her own domain and use it when signing for deal/coupon website then null route the alias to prevent being bombarding later on.
So has the bus factor really changed?
https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/
https://www.gmailify.com/
I am happy customer of theirs, I think they are doing everything I would ever wanted, but good to know you are here as well...
Hope this makes sense and sorry if it took longer to respond.
I also use Fastmail and set that up with a domain no problem.
Maybe I’m missing what this is for.
1- Mailog(opt-in, disable by default): Once enabling you can choose the detail of logging to see the delivery status. 2- Spam digest: (opt-in, disable by default). We will send a daily summarize if there is email we flagged and didn't forward to you.
Mailwip.com has a mail log with the detail so you can debug delivery issue. Also, manage email with namecheap ui dns is something I just don't want to deal with.
I want some nice UI, that also enable a few member of family to self-manage the domain and forward rule.
Sometime I also want to have webhook to parse receipt email from the bank. So I ended up building all of this.
If gmail and namecheap works for you, no need to look further.
I did not know about the silent drops. That is concerning.
Seems like a necessary service to me. I'm interested at least and I have a custom domain hosted with Google workspace.
But just leaving it here that Gmail has a limit of about 30 custom emails in a single mailbox, no?
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Instead I've taken to using the pop download option, but that has its own issues (mostly the long delay between downloads).