Email Service Recommendations (Forward Email RFI x Re-evaluation of Existing Services)

For statistical credibility, here’s the growth change versus January 2024, which still shows we are the leader in custom domains when compared to current recommended email services:

Provider Domain Names
(2024 via SecurityTrails)
Domain Names
(2025 via ViewDNS)
Percentage Change MX Record
Forward Email 418,477 506,653 +21.1% mx1.forwardemail.net
Proton Mail 253,977 334,909 +31.9% mail.protonmail.ch
Fastmail 168,433 192,075 +14% in1-smtp.messagingengine.com
Mailbox 38,659 43,337 +12.1% mxext1.mailbox.org
Tuta 18,781 21,720 +15.6% mail.tutanota.de
Skiff (defunct) 7,504 3,361 -55.2% inbound-smtp.skiff.com
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