Forward Email is the best email service, encrypted email service, and fastest email service. It supports unlimited domains and aliases for no extra cost. It uses quantum safe ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and offers SMTP, IMAP, POP3, email webhooks, email regular expressions, email API, MX relay, SMTP relay, dedicated SMTP servers, IP reputation monitoring, email DKIM signatures, free email forwarding, and lets you send emails with JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby, Python, and more.
Forward Email (forwardemail.net) has 184 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5.
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forwardemail.net
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2026
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From first year I found them till now every year they are improving the service and adding new options. From simple forwarding email service it becomes a real email server with everything you need. Secured. Using it for all of my domains completely separated from web hosting.
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Zach S.
This is the way that software should be
I've been using ForwardEmail since it was started. They've added useful features over time while keeping the price the same (how, I do not know). Their support is top tier. They don't inundate you with ads and provide useful messages about what other features you may be able to use inside of the payment tier that you're a part of. I have no complaints!
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Essqare
I absolutely love the FE support…
I absolutely love the FE support philosophy and the team of support individuals. There was an issue with messages being Queued rather than being sent - some of them time sensitive. Nick and Shaun and may be score others jumped on the issue that was causing it and resolved it as soon as I noticed and reported it - no time wasted. This is what truly sets them apart. I will gladly volunteer my time to work with a team like this that is passionate beyond belief. Keep up the good work FE.
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Jared
Love ForwardEmail.net
Love ForwardEmail.net. I manage 42 domains right now, and without ForwardEmail I honestly have no idea how annoying that would be to handle manually.
I’ve been using it for over 2 years and emails just work. That’s really the main thing I care about. Aliases are easy to set up, I can keep everything organized across different domains, and I’m not constantly fighting with email settings.
Support has been great too. I had an issue recently that was completely on my side, and Nick still replied fast, explained what he could see, and helped me get it sorted out.
For the price, reliability, and support, ForwardEmail has been one of the easiest tools for managing email across all my domains.
LM
Louie M.
Not GDPR compliant, poor support, and spammers
I sent a support ticket on 11 June 2025 and just had it acknowledged on 16 December 2025, 6 months later after I didn't renew my contract. I clearly instructed the owner to not contact me with any more marketing emails (the most basic GDPR request one could make), which he ignored. Please note how unprofessionally he brings up the matter of his 6-month delay to reply to their "premium support" ticket:
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Subject: Premium Support: Your Help Request #FOFUFJ [on 16/12/25 - 6 days after account expired]
Hi there,
Just checking in to see if you had any issues still? We're cleaning up our inboxes and looks like we unfortunately did not timely respond to your most recent message.
We also released v2.0.0! [Marketing link 1] [Marketing link 2]
Let us know if you have any issues, and we hope you have a happy holiday and new year!
Thanks, Nick
Founder
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Hi Nick,
I believe it would be self-evident from your lack of response to my original query [of 11/06/25], and acknowledgement of that, that for sure I continue to have the issue.
What exactly is your point, question or help?
I would appreciate you didn’t contact me for marketing news, please.
Best regards,
Luis Morais
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Four months after my account expired, he was still sending emails, and one of these emails triggered an anxiety response, as it said:
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What will happen if I don't pay?
Email forwarding is currently paused and suspended. **This means that you may be missing important emails. We are currently responding to senders** with a retry status code. Senders will eventually stop retrying, and you may not receive their emails.
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This email created a lot of anxiety about the possibility that people could still be trying to contact me but were told to retry. It also really concerned me that my aliases could still be active in the hands of a good-for-nothing flea company when there are so many better European alternatives.
Fast forward to recent days, and despite the anxiety caused by their marketing, I politely asked them for a second time to delete my data as a formal GDPR request. In response, the owner told me that I should 'actually read the instructions' and close the account myself:
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21/04/2026
Subject: GDPR request
To whom it may concern,
Please delete my accounts and expunge any data you hold of me.
Regards,
Luis
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Hi there,
Please actually read our website. You can delete this yourself.
[Link requiring login to dead account]
Click Delete
Thanks.
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Now, imagine that FOUR months later, this minuscule, good-for-nothing excuse of a company could just nuke all my data with one click – as per the GDPR!
Nevertheless, not only do they feel entitled to ignore my first GDPR request to stop marketing communications when the account expired 4 months before, but they still feel entitled to demand I go through all the work of recovering passwords and reconfirming email addresses so that I can resurrect an expired account just to close it again. And without the guarantee that only GDPR requests can give.
After contacting their data handler, they finally acquiesced that I wasn't requesting support to close an account but serving them with a GDPR Data Erasure request:
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...As a GDPR request, and not a support request, this process should be done on their [Forward Email's] side to eliminate any doubt that any data could be kept due to a “mistake” from me, as the account holder. Nick [Forward Email's owner] has a history of not helping their customers with technical details and it is safer that he does the job instead of me...
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Well, folks, if you want European quality, stick to European companies. Steer away from Forward Email
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In reply to the rather confused reply from Forward Email, below:
1. I am not saying you called me names. Why are saying this? Do you want me to call you names?
2. A GDPR request for data erasure is not the same as an account deletion process - This has been fully explained and you need to learn this or just stop harassing me.
3. Oh, yes, that data erasure indeed happened as soon as I got your European data handler involved and a complaint was sent to the ICO. Congratulations, you have just did a GDPR, you.
4. Oh, so now the clickbait fearmongering email telling me to pay or miss all those emails people "were still sending to me", without an unsubscribe link or a button that said "HOW TO GET RID OF US AS YOU HAD ALREADY TOLD US AND MADE IT CLEAR" is a "transactional" email.
5. Oh, yes, the information that you could have provided in the first place instead of spamming with fearmongering spam. I have changed my DNS settings, not thanks to you, but my domain provider.
6. Lastly, be aware that their tactic is to flag complaints against them as "ilegal" and "defamatory". This review was written while they falsely flagged it as "defamatory". Unethical.
Response from Forward EmailApr 24, 2026
Hi Luis,
We're sorry to hear about your experience and want to address the points raised for anyone reading this review.
However, we must respectfully correct several inaccuracies:
- We never called you any names or insulted you. We provided a direct link to our account deletion page and asked you to follow the instructions there. We regret if the brevity of that message felt dismissive.
- The email you referenced ("What will happen if I don't pay?") was an automated transactional notification, not a marketing email. It was triggered because your domains' MX DNS records were (and still are as of this morning; this is your responsibility to fix this, we do not have access to your DNS records) pointing to our mail servers. When external senders attempt to deliver mail to your domains, our servers must respond at the SMTP protocol level — this is how email infrastructure works. This notification was alerting you that you may be missing emails as a result. Transactional service notifications are distinct from marketing communications under both GDPR and CAN-SPAM.
- Your GDPR data erasure request was fulfilled. Your account and all associated data have been fully deleted and expunged from our systems. We do not store email content, forwarding logs, or message metadata — our zero-knowledge architecture is fully documented in our publicly available Privacy Policy (https://forwardemail.net/privacy ) and GDPR page (https://forwardemail.net/gdpr ).
- The automated notifications will stop as soon as you update your DNS records at your domain registrar to remove the MX records still pointing to mx1.forwardemail.net and mx2.forwardemail.net. This is within your control and we have advised you of this multiple times.
We wish you the best with your future email provider.
DS
Daniel S.
So far the experience is positive with…
So far the experience is positive with forward email services. The price is reasonable and just right for individual and small company. I believe it can handle bigger company also. The multi domain and unlimited users/alias is interesting. Their support is also good. Thank you Forward Email.
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Shira F.
Working great!
Working great, built-in SRS which most services don't have, has both forwarding and SMTP (before I was using two services to handle these), and good customer service. Does exactly what it promises to!
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Kpu'
Hi best note from me.
Hi, I've been using the service for a while, but I want to say that I've tested a few and I found them great. You can talk to them via email and they understood my problems and the requirements I need to grow my system. Top marks from me.