[HN Gopher] Email Forwarding for Your Domain
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Email Forwarding for Your Domain
Author : codazoda
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-05-10 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (mailwip.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (mailwip.com)
| codazoda wrote:
| I used to think this was hard. The founder of mailwip helped me
| iron it out. Well worth the price of admission.
| politelemon wrote:
| This service was formerly named hanami.run , mentioning in case
| it looked familiar to some of us on HN.
| neerajdotname2 wrote:
| The blog still has the name Hanami https://mailwip.com/blog/
|
| https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/
| BeefySwain wrote:
| How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/?
| plasticsoprano wrote:
| Mxroute is an actual mailbox. This is just a forwarder.
| dmazin wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| 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.
| whycome wrote:
| You used gmail with your own domain for free?
| davchana wrote:
| No, he made namecheap forward incoming emails to domain to
| his email.
| kureikain wrote:
| 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.
| WorldPeas wrote:
| I prefer improvmx, free forever, and has wildcard
| morechi wrote:
| Improvmx is free for only one domain and 25 aliases.
| odie5533 wrote:
| Purelymail https://purelymail.com/ and Migadu
| 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 wrote:
| ImprovMX recently sold to an American owner, though... So
| that's really not great.
| DaSHacka wrote:
| The other services GP mentioned are already American too,
| though?
| rovr138 wrote:
| Migadu isn't American
| holuponemoment wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Another option is https://forwardemail.net/en which has a really
| good free tier (if you don't mind managing forwarding rules in
| DNS)
| hdjrudni wrote:
| 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=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 wrote:
| Spell the company backwards or make it into an acronym. That
| lets you detect who is selling your PII without alerting their
| customer support.
| kureikain wrote:
| 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
|
| 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.
| tinhspace wrote:
| 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.
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