Hi, I know in the past the forwardemail guys pushed the community the wrong way but I think they are one of a kind.
I will be adding things to the audit as I discover more but I have good instincts about the product and I think email can be salvaged contrary to popular opinion that it can’t.
This reads like a chatgpt “audit” and is not trustworthy.
The site on which you posted it is no better and the store looks like a straight up scam
There hasn’t been a good reason posted why Privacy Guides doesn’t list forwardemail.net, and so far as I can tell, the reasons why they got fed up here was that the responses by folks here to their questions on why they weren’t listed were increasingly evasive.
Looking at the criteria for listing, there’s nothing stopping them being listed today - so I don’t really understand why they aren’t. An independent audit isn’t a show-stopper, according to Privacy Guides own criteria (it’s listed as a “nice to have”, not a “must-have”). The same goes for the location of the servers (which, as the OP points out, is less of an issue than it could be given the method of encryption).
But, as @securitybrahh points out, the product is solid.
Onr thing that’s bugging me, is that there is no open source rust based SMTP/IMAP client that’s nice.
I have been building and researching the same will release it once I have satisfied myself.
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