100% open-source email infrastructure

All-in-one Email Solution

Privacy-focused email hosting, forwarding, newsletters, and API

Unlimited outbound email from $3/mo

Trusted by 1.6M+ domains

  • Netflix Games
  • Disney
  • The Linux Foundation
  • Ubuntu

Swipe or scroll to see all platform areas.

Route

Forwarding & aliases

Point one MX record and every address on your domain becomes yours: wildcards, regex rules, disposable aliases, outbound PGP.

  • Unlimited aliases $0 per alias, per user, forever
  • Catch-all & regex *@ and pattern-based routing
  • Multi-recipient Fan out to people, teams, webhooks
  • Disposable Burn an alias without losing history

forward hello@studio.dev → you@gmail.com · 41ms

Store

Encrypted mailboxes

Real mailboxes with individually encrypted, sandboxed storage. Use any client. Nothing about the mail is readable by us.

  • IMAP · POP3 Apple Mail, Thunderbird, mobile
  • 10 GB pooled Shared across every domain
  • Zero-knowledge Quantum-resistant encryption
  • Search & filters Full search, server-side, without ever decrypting your mail

imap.forwardemail.net · TLS 1.3 · mailbox sealed

Send

Outbound SMTP & newsletters

Send as your domain from an app, a script, or a campaign. The authentication and reputation work is already done.

  • Unlimited outbound (reputation-based) Included in the $3 plan
  • SMTP relay Drop-in for any framework
  • Newsletters Lists, unsubscribes, bounce handling
  • Pre-warmed IPs Years of sender reputation from day one

POST /v1/emails → 202 accepted · signed · tracked

Sync

Calendars, contacts & tasks

CalDAV and CardDAV on the same domain and the same login, so the mailbox is a workspace, not just an inbox.

  • CalDAV Shared and personal calendars
  • CardDAV Contacts across every device
  • VTODO Tasks and reminders, synced everywhere
  • Open standards Export or leave any time

caldav.forwardemail.net · 3 calendars · 412 contacts synced

Observe

API, webhooks & reports

Everything the dashboard does is an API call, and everything that happens to your mail can be pushed to your systems.

  • REST API Domains, aliases, messages, logs
  • Webhooks Inbound mail as JSON events
  • DMARC reports Parsed, aggregated, human-readable
  • Deliverability Per-domain analytics and alerts

POST https://your.app/hooks/mail → 200 · 1,284 events today

Use

Desktop, mobile and terminal apps

Desktop and mobile apps built by us, with encrypted local storage, offline-first, auto-updating, and the same app in your terminal. Or keep using Apple Mail; both work.

  • macOS · Windows · Linux Signed, notarized, auto-updating
  • iOS · Android Native apps with push notifications
  • Terminal The forwardemail command, with desktop notifications
  • App Lock Local cache encrypted, locked behind biometrics

update check → up to date · signature verified

All-in-one, no add-on fees

One control plane for forwarding, mailboxes, sending, and deliverability.

  • 99.99% Uptime
  • 10 GB Pooled storage
  • $0 Per alias

You run forwarding, mailboxes, sending and deliverability for your domain from one dashboard. Connect a domain, prove you own it, route its mail and watch the results.

Watch the video

The route

  1. 01

    Connect

    Add unlimited domains and aliases

  2. 02

    Authenticate

    SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE

  3. 03

    Route + store

    Forward, send via SMTP, or keep encrypted mail

  4. 04

    Observe

    Analytics, DMARC reports, webhooks, API

Privacy by default

Forwarded mail is processed in memory and never written to disk. Each mailbox is its own encrypted SQLite file that only your password can open. Cure53 has audited our code twice, and its report is public. What we store, and for how long

  • Open-source
  • PGP forwarding
  • Spam + phishing guard

Built for developers

Everything the dashboard does is an API call. Send with one request, receive as JSON webhooks, and script the rest. Our webmail and apps use the same API. Read the API reference

POST /v1/emails
{ "from": "you@domain.com", "to": "customer@co.com" }
→ 202 Accepted · signed · tracked
  • REST API
  • SMTP
  • IMAP
  • POP3
  • CalDAV
  • CardDAV
  • Webhooks

Unlimited sending

Unlimited outbound email, earned by reputation.

Send with SMTP or the API on any paid plan from $3/mo. New senders start at 300 messages per day (900 on the Team plan), and the daily threshold grows as you keep paying and send clean mail. According to Gmail's sender guidelines, senders should keep their spam rate under 0.1%. We use a similar limit: a day when large mailbox providers reject mail to 0.1% or more of your recipients as spam or viruses can lower your threshold one step.

How sending thresholds work
  1. 300
  2. 500
  3. 1,000
  4. 2,000
  5. 5,000
  6. 10,000+

messages per day, unlocked as your reputation grows

Simple pricing

How many domains can I use?

Recommended for most professionals

Every plan includes unlimited domains, the free plan too. Start with forwarding, upgrade to mailboxes, then add team controls.

  • Free

    Forwarding only

    $0/ month · unlimited domains Forward mail
    • Unlimited inbound email
    • Spam protection
    • 50 MB attachment limit
    • Webhooks + regex filters
  • Team

    Families and organizations

    $9/ month · unlimited domains Create team
    • Everything in Enhanced
    • Outbound starts at 900/day
    • Unlimited team members
    • Permission management
    • Priority support
  • Enterprise

    Education, gov, healthcare

    $250/ month · unlimited domains Schedule a call
    • Everything in Team
    • Unlimited API requests
    • Dedicated support room
    • Onboarding + DocuSign

    We handle email for the Linux Foundation across 250+ domains, and we built the @ubuntu.com member addresses for Canonical.

Testimonials

Why do people switch to Forward Email?

Customers give three reasons: privacy built into the architecture, a migration that takes a few DNS changes, and one inbox for every address. Each quote links to proof you can check. Cure53 spent 25 days auditing our code, our infrastructure and Nodemailer, with four senior testers and full access to the source, according to its report.

Migration is a DNS change

Have now switched email forwarding from MailGun to ForwardEmail.net . Simple and painless (and free!). Just some DNS changes, and it just works. Thanks
abhi nemani
abhi nemani@abhinemani · Government Technology Advisor, Sacramento and Los Angeles
Browse the setup guides

One inbox for every address

So they made this cool app that forwards email from your own domain to your Gmail inbox. There is even a catch all option, so sales@, support@, etc all goes to your own inbox. Check it out! It's free! forwardemail.net
Andre Goncalves
Andre Goncalves@andregce · Computer Engineer, Software Developer
How catch-alls work

Time to Inbox

Time to Inbox

We measure these delivery times with our own open-source monitor. It sends test emails to inboxes at major email providers and records how long each one takes to arrive. Our engineers get an alert when a delivery takes longer than 10 seconds. Source code is available on GitHub.

Last updated on 10/5/26 9:19 PM UTC

Current Delivery Times

  • Forward Email

    Direct
    584ms
    Forwarding
    321ms
  • Gmail

    Direct
    1.8s
    Forwarding
    1.8s
  • Apple iCloud

    Direct
    4.5s
    Forwarding
    4.6s
  • Yahoo/AOL

    Direct
    2.3s
    Forwarding
    2.4s