Forward Email (new features)

forwardemail · July 27, 2024, 1:05am

Hi folks We now support encryption on TXT records for free!

As of today we now allow you to encrypt records even on the free plan at no cost. Privacy should not be a feature, it should be inherently built-in to all aspects of a product. As highly requested in this Privacy Guides discussion and on our GitHub issues #254 and #251, we’ve added this!

Visit https://forwardemail.net/encrypt or click the “Encrypt Plaintext TXT Record” link in the nav/footer of any page on our site. We’ve also mentioned this tool in our FAQ as well.

Behind the scenes we encrypt your input with ChaCha20-Poly1305 and then convert it to a Base64 string.

Thank you for your patience, we’ve been hard at work! Our IMAP/POP3/CalDAV service is snappy now – and we’re going to integrate iOS Mailbox IMAP Push support sometime soon too.

Here is a screenshot of the encrypt plaintext TXT page in action:

dngray · July 27, 2024, 4:19am

This is something that does need to be reviewed as it seems like a solid product from the outside. Unfortunately I’ve not personally had the time to do so yet.

Encounter5729 · July 27, 2024, 11:03am

Why can’t I create an account without paying ? Is it free only when you own a domain?

forwardemail · July 27, 2024, 11:11am

Yes, the free plan is for bringing your own domain. We offer several vanity domains for $3/mo.

forwardemail · July 27, 2024, 11:12am

Also we just released iOS Push support today!

https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck/issues/711#issuecomment-2254114016

brivacy · July 27, 2024, 5:08pm

What is the key difference between simplelogin anon addy and forwardemail can you explain.

forwardemail · August 1, 2024, 12:58pm

Today we’re rolling out an improved UX for macOS/iOS & Android users!

Under the My Account → Domains → Aliases → Generate Password pop-up, you can now easily scan a QR code which will open a signed mobile config (provisioning profile) at the generate password page for your IMAP/POP3/CalDAV mailboxes/aliases.

This means you don’t need to enter a password nor host/port configuration, and saves you a lot of typing (albeit K-9 mail still requires you to enter a password, but we provide 1-click copy-to-clipboard buttons).

Screenshot:

forwardemail · August 7, 2024, 3:44am

Great news As requested on GitHub issues, we’ve added webhook signatures today!

Now you can verify the webhook signature (e.g. in addition to verifying the request was coming from one of our IP addresses). See this GitHub issue for more insight or simply visit My Account → Domains → Settings → Webhook Signature Payload Verification. Also see this reference section in our FAQ for more insight.

Screenshot:

forwardemail · August 7, 2024, 3:46am

Also another update – we’ve added a dedicated page for our time to inbox (“TTI”) monitoring section. Before it was just in the footer of every page of our website – but this required the user to scroll down the page to see it. Now you can simply go to “Time to Inbox” link under Developers section or bookmark https://forwardemail.net/tti.

brivacy · August 7, 2024, 5:19am

I am using the service.
The only thing i think is missing a application if possible a application would be nice to have and i really don’t know much but asking that do you have an security audit as most services does this through cure69.

anon65082098 · August 7, 2024, 6:33am

I’m using it too, and it’s great. Keep it up, no complaints

lepras · August 7, 2024, 6:59am

@forwardemail does the site has PWA and is the site has nice mobile UI?

rollsicecream · August 7, 2024, 9:25am

cure69? Never heard of that. You surely meant Cure53.

brivacy · August 7, 2024, 5:46pm

Another point that someone has risen @forwardemail can clarify if it is a bug or something else.

Which website is showing that unlimited domain with free account but this not there if you want to use. Or avail. I never saw that.
And another question will be the existing one

We know money is required but the words used in the website is kindly contradicts with other part.
If that is a bug in website or design that can be solved but if not kindly clarify.

forwardemail · August 7, 2024, 11:03pm

It is planned for later this year. See our list of security audit companies we’re plan to use at https://forwardemail.net/blog/docs/best-security-audit-companies.

If you’re on the free plan, it’s all DNS-based. You can add as many aliases as you want in DNS records as per our FAQ guide at https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#how-do-i-get-started-and-set-up-email-forwarding. See options A through G in that section. We’ll make that pop-up message clearer.

forwardemail · August 8, 2024, 1:30am

This is now fixed from design perspective. We now inform the user much clearer for that one button “Add Alias” if you’re on the free plan.

Before:

After:

forwardemail · August 8, 2024, 1:48am

Yes, try it out on any screen size/device at https://forwardemail.net.

We plan to add webmail support first and then cross compile it across desktop and mobile. In the interim we have an Apps dropdown on our website which highlights our recommended mail clients to use: