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Cyril
ImprovMX — Free email forwarding
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ImprovMX lets you forward emails from your domain to your personal inbox. You can create aliases to redirect any mailbox and even use webhooks to connect your emails to your app.
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HiramFromTheChi
Hey Cyril, just for my understanding..this only forwards those emails to your personal, but from there, responses will come from that personal email, correct?
Cyril
Maker
@hiramfromthechi Yes, but you can configure Gmail to send email as your domain, we wrote a guide for that: https://improvmx.com/guides/send.... Hope that will help :)
HiramFromTheChi
@cx42net @anna_0x It's only for Gmail though right?
Cyril
Maker
@hiramfromthechi @anna_0x Awesome! Thank you :)
Cyril
Maker
@hiramfromthechi @anna_0x The tutorial mentioned above, yes unfortunately.
Bruno Crosier
I really like your site's design. I'm wondering how does improvmx differ from the Open Source and free https://forwardemail.net ?
kanochart
@brunocrosier I'm using ImprovMX (and not affiliated in any way). From a quick glance at the docs, I'd say there are not a lot of functional differences, but ImprovMX is so much easier to set up, it's ridiculous.
Cyril
Maker
@brunocrosier @kanochart Thank you for your message, I'm really glad you find the setup for ImprovMX ridiculously easy :)
Cyril
Maker
@brunocrosier Hi Bruno, Thank you for your warm word! In term of functionality, we provide a few bits more than ForwardEmail, including aliases, multiple destinations, logs, and webhooks. We also have a few other ideas in mind to implement. In term of speed, we forward an email under 4 seconds on average (including a blocking 3s at the start of the SMTP communication to discourage spammers. So in reality, once we have the email, it takes us less than a second to forward it). Hope that answers your question :)
Bruno Crosier
@cx42net ForwardEmail definitely allows aliases (and for free). My experience of ImprovMX's free plan when I used it a few months ago was a bit disappointing because an entire day's worth of emails went undelivered (ie. they were permanently lost). When I contacted your support email, I was told this was because your server had been suffering a DDoS attack. I then switched to ForwardEmail and have had no issues whatsoever. I agree that the UX on ImprovMX is considerably easier than for ForwardEmail, and that's something that could be a Unique Selling Point. Have you implemented any measures to prevent a DDoS attack from affecting your service in future?
Cyril
Maker
@brunocrosier We did! Following the issue, we implemented HaProxy on top of SMTP to ensure multiple processes, on multiple servers, are running at the same time. Since then, the service has been running smoothly and we had no issue about dropped emails since then :) I'm sorry about the bad experience you had. We are working every day to improve the quality of the service and avoid these in the future!
Douglas Evaristo

I'm using a little over 3 months and a bit of a pretty efficient service

Pros:

Free, design and easy (no password to auth 😄)

Cons:

rarely has a delay.

Khodl
Using it for few months now, and definitely recommend it. I usually use it when I create stuff with Carrd, in order to have a landing page with emails in minutes. Congrats to @antoineminoux and @cx42net for this great product.
Cyril
Maker
@antoineminoux @nathanaelkhodl Thank you! I'm glad to know you like it! :)
Daylen Sawchuk
We have been using ImprovMX at Sustainabiliteens (the youth climate justice group in Vancouver) for a few months now are really appreciate how it easily hooked into our existing Gmail accounts while giving us branding that matched our domain at no cost. Being able to respond from our personal accounts using the Gmail app has been a huge added plus since we're all full-time students who are juggling many tasks. If someone leaves the organization, we can easily change the redirect to point to another account. We have been recommending the service to other organizations and think that it would work great for businesses too!
Cyril
Maker
@askdaylen That's a very thoughtful and kind message. I'm really happy to read this and happy to know that you like ImprovMX. Thank you!
Cyril
Maker
Hi everyone! Excited to be on ProductHunt today to share ImprovMX. We acquired it more than a year ago and we worked hard to improve the service, the deliverability, and the user interface. The design is brand new and it's just the tip of the iceberg. On the servers, we completely rewrote the mail server ourselves to handle the edge cases we had and it has been working quite smoothly. Email forwarding has been present in the main hosting provider for years, but we fill that this feature is often overlooked or missing much powerful stuff, that we have implemented or plan to implement. Hope you'll like it!
Hirday Gupta
Hi @cx42net, thanks for this awesome product! I have a question: how do you do passwordless authentication? Is it just a cookie saved from when I verified my email?
Cyril
Maker
@hirday_gupta Thank you! We send you a one-time login link that contains a unique token (which allows us to identify your account). When you open that link, we store the session in local storage (instead of cookies) to keep you connected. Note that we also allow connection by login and password: You just need to set a password in your Account settings and you'll be all set :)
Hirday Gupta
@cx42net that's actually a really cool idea! Its pretty interesting to see how many different ways people are doing logins/signups.. this one has to be the most frictionless i've seen yet!
Cyril
Maker
@hirday_gupta Thank you. That was the idea, but we got requests from other people that they wanted a login/pass way because of many reasons (they don't know how to proceed, they want to use their password manager or store their credentials in the browser, etc). That's why we finally implemented both.
Parthi Loganathan

Not their problem, but a one click solution to get email for your domain in your inbox would be great

Pros:

Beautiful UI, simple to use, clear instructions

Cons:

Still a lot of manual setup outside ImproveMX on Gmail and my DNS provider

Duncan McClean

I've been using ImprovMX for around 6 months now on my domains, I only need 1 inbox for everything.

Pros:

Don't miss any mail

Cons:

Not any I can think of

Joel G Goodman

Been using ImprovMX for a while and it's been great to not have to pay Google for a new GSuite account every time I get a new URL. Super easy to setup and fills a big need.

Pros:

Easy setup, fills a huge need

Cons:

Big price jump from free to $9/mo... would love something in the middle there.

Michael Mahemoff
Didn't think a mail forwarding product could leave me this impressed. Needed something like this as Cloudflare doesn't support forwarding, the setup was lightning fast.
Anna Filou
I’ve been using this service for about a year. So far no issues! Lovely redesign
Cyril
Maker
@anna_0x Thank you!
Anna Filou
Thank YOU! I’m so happy I can even use it to send emails using my domain email address for free through Gmail 😍 and it was very easy to set up thanks to the thoughtfully written instructions @cx42net
Cyril
Maker
@anna_0x I'm glad you are happy with it! That's the aim :) Thank you!
Ryan Willis

I've been using this for over a year and I'm very happy with the free plan. The domains that I own whose TLDs are not supported by Google Domains are registered on some sites that don't offer wildcard email forwarding for free, so I use ImprovMX to accomplish that.

Pros:

Quick setup, magic login links, and most importantly, wildcard forwards.

Cons:

Not-so-instant delivery

Ryan Allred
Just needed a MX record to forward email for a side project. Exactly what I needed and took moments to set up. Awesome product.
sujesh thekkepatt
Loved it. Easy setup and great UI/UX. Really looking for something like this for my side project.Great work guys
Cyril
Maker
@sujesh_thekkepatt1 Thank you so much!! Happy to provide ImprovMX :)
Victory Osayi Airuoyuwa
Works! My organization have been using this for a year now, we look towards the business plan for our SaaS app.
Cyril
Maker
@victorybiz Thank you so much! :)
Vladimir Cezar

Easy way of addding aliases to your gmail account

Pros:

Easy to setup, works flawlessly

Cons:

None

Warez Media

Used this app for almost 2 years. A year ago everything stopped working for me, so I opened the webpage and saw the new UI, and then the aquisition, I thought okay, something is going to be improved. But them the paid plan. And now... Whats the 10 devices free limit. The app was always free, why destroying it ? Why limiting the usage. I don't mind the faster delivery on servers in a bunker. But I want the unlimited free aliases, as it always was. Thanks. Please do not destroy the nature of a FOSS app.

Pros:

Remake of ui Easy to setup

Cons:

10 devices limit Messy ui Tidious login process

Atif Ali
This is one of the best products I have discovered and heavily used in the recent while. It is simple, easy-to-use, no-fuss and gets the job done. The support is great too! Really looking forward to more exciting features being released!
Cyril
Maker
@atifshoukatali Thank you for your awesome comment :)
Benoît Perrin

Just the fantastic free product I have been looking for for years when boostraping little online organizations.

Pros:

Free and efficient.

Cons:

Not found any yet.