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I wonder how you found out that Forwardemail is older. You made me curious so I checked and from the whois details, Forwardemail was registered on 10/2017 where
by cx42net 7y ago
I wonder how you found out that Forwardemail is older. You made me curious so I checked and from the whois details, Forwardemail was registered on 10/2017 whereas ImprovMX was registered on 08/2013.
We've acquired ImprovMX in 2017 and greatly improved the service (from a single DO droplet to multiple powerful servers to handle thousands of emails per hours).
- brillout 7y agoIt was guesstimate. It "looks" older and more indie whereas improvmx looks more startup-ish. It also increases trust that the code is open source. Actually the forwarding doesn't seem to work so I may switch over to you guys :-).
- cx42net 7y agoThat's interesting that you thought it was older, it's worth taking notes of this. I agree that the open-source part is the USP for ForwardEmail that we haven't. The thing on our end is that we have already thought about opensourcing a few parts of our service, but if we don't do all, it doesn't matter to do partially. So instead, we plan to have an audit from an external service to guarantee that what we say and offer is aligned with the respect of our users and privacy. That's the next step :)
- brillout 7y agoFor me it's all about trust; if you can somehow increase trust you'd win folks like me over. E.g. saying "if we shut down we'll notify you one week prior".
- cx42net 7y agoThat's a good point! I'll take note of that, thank you.