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Forward Email

Enhanced Protection from $3 a month. Based in United States.

Last checked 25 October 2026

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Overall3.0
Privacy2.0
Price4.0
Features4.5

How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.

Key facts

Cheapest plan
Enhanced Protection
$3 a month
Free plan
Yes, forwarding only
Storage
10 GB
Your own domain
✓ Unlimited
End-to-end encryption
Optional (PGP or encrypted storage)
Company based in
United States
Your data is kept in
United States
Founded
2017
Free trial
Free plan
Funded by advertising
No
Works in any mail app
✓ IMAP and SMTP
Calendar and contacts
✓ Yes
Aliases
Yes
Open-source apps
✓ Yes
Sign up without ID
No
White label
No
Reader offer
None

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Trust score

Still being checked
Still being checked

My Trust score counts only things Forward Email controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 2.3 points are confirmed. How it's worked out

Reliability 0 of 1

  • Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1

Abuse and reputation 0.25 of 0.75

  • Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
  • Publishes a way to report abuse SourceYes: 0.25/0.25

Email security on its own domain 1 of 1

  • DMARC set to rejectFrom my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Yes: 0.4/0.4
  • MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
  • DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
  • Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2

Account security 0.25 of 0.5

  • Two-step sign-inYes: 0.25/0.25
  • PasskeysNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Transparency 0.25 of 0.75

  • A security contact (security.txt or a security page) SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
  • A transparency report, or a published policy on government requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
  • A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5

  • You can export all your mailYes: 0.25/0.25
  • You can cancel onlineNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Support 0.25 of 0.5

  • A way to reach a person, listed on its website SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
  • A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25

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Plans

2 plans
Free£0, forwarding only
Enhanced Protection$3 a month (10 GB pooled storage, IMAP, POP3, CalDAV and CardDAV)

Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges.

Before you sign up

Not checked yet
Taking your email with you
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How to cancel
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Refunds
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Minimum term
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Price when it renews
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After you close your account
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Getting help
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Taken from Forward Email's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.

Reviews

Trustpilot 4.6

These are other people's ratings, taken from each site on the date shown. They don't change my stars, which come only from the facts.

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Features

6 of 22 offered, 16 still to check

Policies and contacts

3 of 5 found
Acceptable use policy
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Contact
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Track record

No known breaches
Known data breaches
✓ None on record for forwardemail.net
Their code
forwardemail/superagent ↗ MIT licence · 16,629 stars · latest release v10.4.1 on 23 September 2026 · last change 23 September 2026

From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.

Company and servers

Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
Founded
2017
Domain first registered
2017 (forwardemail.net)
Website hosted in
United States (Datacamp Limited)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in.
Mail servers
United States (Datacamp Limited)
United States (DigitalOcean, LLC)
mx1.forwardemail.net, mx2.forwardemail.net
Mail security records
SPF strict (-all) · DMARC reject · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓ · DANE ✓
Blocklists
✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
Name servers run by
Cloudflare
DNSSEC
✓ Signed
IPv6
✓ website and mail servers
Website certificate
Sectigo Limited · TLS 1.3
Home page answered in
609 ms · HTTPS with HSTS

My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses (IP geolocation by DB-IP), and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.

Forward Email home page

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The Forward Email home page, as my checks saw it
Captured by my automatic checks on 31 October 2026.

News

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Price history

1 price since 25 October 2026

Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.

£0£1£2£32026
  • 25 October 2026 $3 a month, when I checked

No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.

Sources

3 sources

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