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Email Forwarding for Your Domain

60 points by codazoda 1y ago

codazoda 1y ago
I used to think this was hard. The founder of mailwip helped me iron it out. Well worth the price of admission.
politelemon 1y ago
This service was formerly named hanami.run , mentioning in case it looked familiar to some of us on HN.
- neerajdotname2 1y ago
  The blog still has the name Hanami https://mailwip.com/blog/ https://mailwip.com/blog/ https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/ https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/
BeefySwain 1y ago
How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/ https://mxroute.com/?
- plasticsoprano 1y ago
  Mxroute is an actual mailbox. This is just a forwarder.
dmazin 1y ago
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. Maybe I’m missing what this is for.
- justanotheratom 1y ago
  I would like to hear a response to this query too. But just leaving it here that Gmail has a limit of about 30 custom emails in a single mailbox, no?
- gapan 1y ago
  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.
  - kureikain 1y ago
    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.
    - crossroadsguy 1y ago
      Oh that’s interesting. With mailbox.org I am in complete darkness if some mail was dropped after or before my mail client and mailbox.org support is well mailbox.org support. So I don’t really know what happened. So if an email was dropped even from spam - there’s some log display interface for my account where I can see all this? Or if something I was sending was dropped — I can see that as well in there? (Assuming neither were shown as a failure email in my mailbox)
  - andrewmcwatters 1y ago
    Ugh. Thank you for mentioning this. I've actually forgotten about their spam filter dropping emails rather than letting downstream providers handle it.
- ElijahLynn 1y ago
  If you want a custom domain with Gmail, you need to use Google workspace which costs like $8 a month or something like that. Seems like a necessary service to me. I'm interested at least and I have a custom domain hosted with Google workspace.
  - joezydeco 1y ago
    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.
- whycome 1y ago
  You used gmail with your own domain for free?
  - davchana 1y ago
    No, he made namecheap forward incoming emails to domain to his email.
- kureikain 1y ago
  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.
  - dmazin 1y ago
    Aha, thank you! I did not know about the silent drops. That is concerning.
- n_ary 1y ago
  [dead]
WorldPeas 1y ago
I prefer improvmx, free forever, and has wildcard
- morechi 1y ago
  Improvmx is free for only one domain and 25 aliases.
odie5533 1y ago
Purelymail https://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/ and Migadu https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ and Zoho have better pricing and features for full inboxes and sending. If you just want forwarding, there are free options like Cloudflare or ImprovMX.
- physhster 1y ago
  ImprovMX recently sold to an American owner, though... So that's really not great.
  - DaSHacka 1y ago
    The other services GP mentioned are already American too, though?
    - rovr138 1y ago
      Migadu isn’t American
    - holuponemoment 1y ago
      Zoho certainly isn't American but you choose your datacentre region on signup, including US locations. Think it's a nice option to be able to get EU data protections without actually being a resident. That said I don't get the objection? There's a high likelihood that the person sending you email is using a US service anyway, Apple, Gmail and Outlook have 90% marketshare between them.
- kureikain 1y ago
  I build this for this use case: 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.
ErrantX 1y ago
Another option is https://forwardemail.net/en https://forwardemail.net/en which has a really good free tier (if you don't mind managing forwarding rules in DNS)
hdjrudni 1y ago
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. https://forwardemail.net/en/private-business-email?pricing=true https://forwardemail.net/en/private-business-email?pricing=t... 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.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
  Spell the company backwards or make it into an acronym. That lets you detect who is selling your PII without alerting their customer support.
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
- 93n 1y ago
  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)
kureikain 1y ago
Thank you. I build this. 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 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.
- VOIPThrowaway 1y ago
  Run your text through ChatGPT or something. There are some grammatical errors on your website
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - hammyhavoc 1y ago
    Ah yes, then we can have it hallucinate and totally misrepresent the concept. Terrible idea.
tinhspace 1y ago
I manage multiple domains for my side projects. With Mailwip, I can forward all emails from these domains to my Gmail account. This setup allows me to effortlessly respond to customer emails directly from Gmail, consolidating all communications into a single account for convenience.
dangoodmanUT 1y ago
Cloudflare has this for free now iiuc
jonplackett 1y ago
I’m sure this is great - but just to remind peeps you can do this for free with Cloudflare
- upcoming-sesame 1y ago
  Except for replies
abdlrman 1y ago
Sifl full time you have a good time with you have a
abdlrman 1y ago
dhk I was wondering if we could get a lift to yoursand
tempestn 1y ago
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).
johnklos 1y ago
How does this work? Certain shitty email providers, like Gmail, will consider a forwarding email server the source of spam when their spam filter doesn't like what's forwarded.
desireco42 1y ago
It seems similar to Gmailify https://www.gmailify.com/ 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...
- tuckerman 1y ago
  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?
  - desireco42 1y ago
    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.
mwpmaybe 1y ago
How does this compare to ForwardMX?

60 points by codazoda 1y ago

codazoda 1y ago

I used to think this was hard. The founder of mailwip helped me iron it out. Well worth the price of admission.

politelemon 1y ago

This service was formerly named hanami.run , mentioning in case it looked familiar to some of us on HN.

neerajdotname2 1y ago
The blog still has the name Hanami https://mailwip.com/blog/ https://mailwip.com/blog/ https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/ https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/

BeefySwain 1y ago

How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/ https://mxroute.com/?

plasticsoprano 1y ago
Mxroute is an actual mailbox. This is just a forwarder.

dmazin 1y ago

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. Maybe I’m missing what this is for.

justanotheratom 1y ago
I would like to hear a response to this query too. But just leaving it here that Gmail has a limit of about 30 custom emails in a single mailbox, no?
gapan 1y ago
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.
- kureikain 1y ago
  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.
  - crossroadsguy 1y ago
    Oh that’s interesting. With mailbox.org I am in complete darkness if some mail was dropped after or before my mail client and mailbox.org support is well mailbox.org support. So I don’t really know what happened. So if an email was dropped even from spam - there’s some log display interface for my account where I can see all this? Or if something I was sending was dropped — I can see that as well in there? (Assuming neither were shown as a failure email in my mailbox)
- andrewmcwatters 1y ago
  Ugh. Thank you for mentioning this. I've actually forgotten about their spam filter dropping emails rather than letting downstream providers handle it.
ElijahLynn 1y ago
If you want a custom domain with Gmail, you need to use Google workspace which costs like $8 a month or something like that. Seems like a necessary service to me. I'm interested at least and I have a custom domain hosted with Google workspace.
- joezydeco 1y ago
  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.
whycome 1y ago
You used gmail with your own domain for free?
- davchana 1y ago
  No, he made namecheap forward incoming emails to domain to his email.
kureikain 1y ago
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.
- dmazin 1y ago
  Aha, thank you! I did not know about the silent drops. That is concerning.
n_ary 1y ago
[dead]

WorldPeas 1y ago

I prefer improvmx, free forever, and has wildcard

morechi 1y ago
Improvmx is free for only one domain and 25 aliases.

odie5533 1y ago

Purelymail https://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/ and Migadu https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ and Zoho have better pricing and features for full inboxes and sending. If you just want forwarding, there are free options like Cloudflare or ImprovMX.

physhster 1y ago
ImprovMX recently sold to an American owner, though... So that's really not great.
- DaSHacka 1y ago
  The other services GP mentioned are already American too, though?
  - rovr138 1y ago
    Migadu isn’t American
  - holuponemoment 1y ago
    Zoho certainly isn't American but you choose your datacentre region on signup, including US locations. Think it's a nice option to be able to get EU data protections without actually being a resident. That said I don't get the objection? There's a high likelihood that the person sending you email is using a US service anyway, Apple, Gmail and Outlook have 90% marketshare between them.
kureikain 1y ago
I build this for this use case: 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.

ErrantX 1y ago

Another option is https://forwardemail.net/en https://forwardemail.net/en which has a really good free tier (if you don't mind managing forwarding rules in DNS)

hdjrudni 1y ago

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. https://forwardemail.net/en/private-business-email?pricing=true https://forwardemail.net/en/private-business-email?pricing=t... 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.

kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
Spell the company backwards or make it into an acronym. That lets you detect who is selling your PII without alerting their customer support.
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]
93n 1y ago
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)

kureikain 1y ago

Thank you. I build this. 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 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.

VOIPThrowaway 1y ago
Run your text through ChatGPT or something. There are some grammatical errors on your website
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
- hammyhavoc 1y ago
  Ah yes, then we can have it hallucinate and totally misrepresent the concept. Terrible idea.

tinhspace 1y ago

I manage multiple domains for my side projects. With Mailwip, I can forward all emails from these domains to my Gmail account. This setup allows me to effortlessly respond to customer emails directly from Gmail, consolidating all communications into a single account for convenience.

dangoodmanUT 1y ago

Cloudflare has this for free now iiuc

jonplackett 1y ago

I’m sure this is great - but just to remind peeps you can do this for free with Cloudflare

upcoming-sesame 1y ago
Except for replies

abdlrman 1y ago

Sifl full time you have a good time with you have a

abdlrman 1y ago

dhk I was wondering if we could get a lift to yoursand

tempestn 1y ago

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).

johnklos 1y ago

How does this work? Certain shitty email providers, like Gmail, will consider a forwarding email server the source of spam when their spam filter doesn't like what's forwarded.

desireco42 1y ago

It seems similar to Gmailify https://www.gmailify.com/ 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...

tuckerman 1y ago
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?
- desireco42 1y ago
  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.

mwpmaybe 1y ago

How does this compare to ForwardMX?