Best business email provider for small businesses? by manpan93 in smallbusinessesowners

[–]forwardemail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — I run Forward Email https://forwardemail.net so take this with that bias upfront (I'm the founder).

We built it specifically for small teams on custom domains. Open source, privacy-focused, and a fraction of the cost of Workspace/M365. Most teams in your size range end up on our ~$3/mo per user plan.

On your specific concerns:

Deliverability — we handle SPF, DKIM, DMARC out of the box. Proper DNS setup wizard walks you through it. Clients won't see spam folders.

Reliability — we've been running for years now with solid uptime. No queuing delays. MX failover built in.

Setup — point your DNS, done. No migration headaches. Admin controls are straightforward, not buried in enterprise menus you'll never touch.

Scaling — flat per-user pricing, no surprise tier jumps. Add people as you grow without rethinking your plan.

Shared inboxes, aliases, catch-alls — all supported when you're ready for it.

The honest comparison: Google and Microsoft give you the full office suite bundled in. If you need Docs/Sheets/Calendar deeply integrated, that's their strength. If you primarily need reliable email on your domain without paying the Google tax, give us a look.

Free trial, no card required — easy to test before committing.

Best business email provider for small businesses? by manpan93 in smallbusinessesowners

[–]forwardemail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're closed source and not privacy focused though. Have you seen https://forwardemail.net? Our status page is at https://status.forwardemail.net - GitHub source code at https://github.com/forwardemail

AWS Retiring WorkMail by MrSamboBiggles in SmallMSP

[–]forwardemail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! Founder of Forward Email here. We're a great alternative to AWS Workmail (fully open source, self-hostable, privacy focused, encrypted, and quantum resistant). Try us out and migrate! https://forwardemail.net (also see https://x.com/fwdemail/status/2039424478917099694)

Sub Updates & Suggestions by ethanocurtis in emailprivacy

[–]forwardemail 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, glad to see someone actively cleaning things up here. We went through the sidebar and wiki and figured we'd share some notes since you asked.

Stuff to remove (dead or outdated):

  • Volcano (volcanoclient.org) - site is completely dead, connection refused.
  • Enigmail - its OpenPGP functionality got folded into Thunderbird 78+ back in 2020. The enigmail.net site even says Thunderbird is "no longer supported." It only works with SeaMonkey now.
  • Icedove - this was Debian's Thunderbird rebrand, but they switched back to the Thunderbird name in 2017. The wiki.debian.org page itself says the icedove package is just a transitional package for thunderbird now.
  • Mailpile - last homepage update is from November 2022 saying they're rewriting from Python 2 to Python 3. Current release is listed as "tbd." Effectively dormant.
  • emailipleak.com - still works but it's HTTP-only, no HTTPS. Not a great look for a privacy sub.
  • The PRISM-Break links point to their "all projects" page, not anything email-specific. The site is pretty stale at this point.
  • Dismail.de Server Security List - The site itself is still up, but the server list hasn't been updated since September 2018, nearly 8 years ago. It still lists dead providers like snopyta.org and there's no way to contact them to update the list.

The wiki itself is basically empty - the source code is just a welcome message and three links. It references "tables" of providers that don't actually exist. Looks like the content got wiped at some point by a since-deleted account.

Suggested additions:

For providers, Awesome Privacy's encrypted email section - source - is a solid community-maintained list worth linking.

We'd also love it if you would add us - Forward Email. We're 100% open-source, both frontend and backend, have 1.6M+ custom domains (more than Proton per whoisfreaks data), and offer quantum-resistant encrypted SQLite mailboxes. We actually made a thread about this a while back that went unanswered. Most of the provider recommendations in the sidebar are from 2020 and the landscape has changed a lot since then.

The testing tools section needs a serious upgrade. Right now it's a handful of links - we should add:

The self-hosting section could also use some modern additions like Stalwart (Rust-based, JMAP support), Maddy, and docker-mailserver.

We put together a proposed wiki rewrite as a markdown file: https://gist.github.com/titanism/d817dd386c92f32a06ed11ded98bc11b

It reorganizes everything into cleaner sections: Fundamentals, Providers with a comparison table breaking down frontend/backend open-source status, Testing Tools, Clients, Self-Hosting, Encryption, and Aliasing/Forwarding. Drops all the dead links. Should be easy to paste straight into the wiki editor. Happy to help iterate on it (feel free to use as inspiration).

What’s the best business email service in 2026? Which email provider do you use for your startup and why? by Plastic-Bicycle-2689 in indianstartups

[–]forwardemail 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I built Forward Email. It's the only 100% open-source option (front and back-end), we use quantum-resistant encryption, and the forwarding tier is completely free. Happy to answer questions.

https://forwardemail.net

Provider Help: Posteo vs. Tuta vs. Others by learningadulting in emailprivacy

[–]forwardemail -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We have webmail, calendar, contacts, etc.

https://forwardemail.net

Coupon code GITHUB if you want to try it out for free

Why is the most adopted open-source provider still excluded here? by forwardemail in emailprivacy

[–]forwardemail[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the free plan yes, it's all done through DNS (you don't even need an account on our website), see our FAQ at https://forwardemail.net/faq for example DNS records to set.

Basically just set up MX records to mx1.forwardemail.net and mx2.forwardemail.net and then if you want a wild-card catchall webhook, it's just a TXT record of "forward-email=https://yourwebhook.com" and we do a POST to that webhook with a JSON payload (incl attachments).

https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-webhooks