About
Forward Email is an email service for custom domains that provides free email forwarding and paid custom domain email hosting. The free plan supports unlimited inbound email forwarding for unlimited domains, catch-all addresses, multiple recipients per alias, spam protection, 50 MB attachment limits, regex filtering, and sending mail to webhooks. It does not include outbound sending or mailbox storage.
The paid plans add encrypted inbox storage, outbound SMTP sending, unlimited aliases, DMARC reporting, developer API access, and team or enterprise collaboration features. The service is open source and emphasizes encrypted mailboxes, TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, and support for common email clients and domain setups.
- Unlimited inbound forwarding
- Unlimited domains on free plan
- 50 MB attachment limit
- Catch-all aliases and recipients
- Regex-based forwarding filters
- Webhook delivery support
- Encrypted 10 GB pooled storage
- Outbound SMTP and API access
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable, but it is capped to forwarding-only use and blocks sending mail, so it sits well below the $3/month Enhanced Protection plan. Compared with that cheapest paid plan, the free offering covers a meaningful subset of the core workflow plus extras like webhooks and regex filtering, so it is worth about $2/month. No credit card is called out for signup, and the plan is perpetual rather than time-limited, which supports a modest but real value score.
What's included in the free tier
- Unlimited inbound email.
- Spam protection.
- 50 MB attachment limit.
- Send Mail As with Gmail.
- Catch-all email addresses.
- Multiple recipients per alias.
- Send emails to webhooks.
- Regular expression filtering.
See Forward Email pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Enhanced Protection
- domains
- unlimited
- aliases
- unlimited
- storage
- 10 GB pooled
- outbound emails
- 9000+ / month
- Unlimited aliases
- 10 GB pooled storage
- Secure inbox privacy
- 9000+ outbound / month
- Email analytics & insights
- DMARC Reporting
- Send outbound SMTP email
- Developer API access
Team
- domains
- unlimited
- team members
- unlimited
- Unlimited team members
- Team permission management
- Shared organizational access
- Priority support requests
- Custom recipient verification
- Everything in Enhanced Protection
Enterprise
- domains
- unlimited
- API requests
- unlimited
- Unlimited API requests
- Terms of Use exception for 3rd parties
- Dedicated customer support chatroom
- Enterprise contract agreement sent via DocuSign
- Onboarding assistance
- Real-time engineering support
- Everything in Team
Pricing extracted from Forward Email's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
