Draft:Forward Email

About
Forward Email (https://forwardemail.net) is a free and open-source email forwarding, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and encrypted email service focused on a user's right to privacy. The service offers custom domain names, custom email addresses and aliases, disposable email addresses, anti-spam and phishing protection, outbound transactional email, web API, webhooks, and support for 10 GB+ of email storage

It was launched in November 2017, and the service is maintained and owned by its original founding team under the United States based company Forward Email LLC. The service is built with 100% open-source software hosted on GitHub. The service is translated into 25 different languages.

Reception
On October 24, 2019, Abhi Nemani (the former Chief Innovation Officer of the City of Sacramento and Chief Data Officer of the City of Los Angeles) switched from MailGun to Forward Email.

On November 24, 2020, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, praised Forward Email as the email service that ‘doesn’t keep logs or store emails’ and stated he was a ‘happy user’.

In 2023, Bitwarden added support for Forward Email as of Bitwarden v7. It also became the default service recommended by Nodemailer, a popular Node.js npm package with 3M+ weekly downloads for sending email.

On July 17 2023, Security Trails displayed 218,553 domain names using the service.

On February 9, 2024 Security Trails displayed 429,280 domain names using the service.

Notable Users
The service is used by notable users such as Netflix, Disney Ad Sales, Government of South Australia, Government of Dominican Republic, The University of Maryland, The University of Washington, and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Encryption
Forward Email uses individually encrypted and quantum-safe mailboxes that use ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption with SQLite.

Privacy
The service has public pages for its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

It claims to not store any emails to disk storage nor databases as it uses in-memory processing.

History
An in-depth historical timeline is available on the About page of their website.