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I just got a domain for the first time yesterday, and decided to go with migadu.com instead.

You can forward mail to/from gmail with it basically the same, it has a very low sending limit on the free plan (but I'm not sure if that applies to mail forwarded from gmail), and it claims to attach a footer on the free plan (like forwardmail.net does), but it doesn't actually seem to do so to mail forwarded from gmail. https://www.migadu.com/en/guides/gmail.html

Meanwhile it has it's own webmail/pop3/smtp servers so it will be easy to move away from gmail entirely in the future.

I also just really liked the tone of the website, I have a lot more confidence in them not doing scummy things than I do in forwardmail.net not doing scummy things (though that is just based on reading a website, not the most reliable indicator ever).

Anyways, we will see in a few months if I think I made the right choice.

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I really like Migadu is offering - since I don't really send that many emails at the moment, I think the 10-email limit isn't too bad! And if it doesn't really attach a footer, that's even better! Thanks for sharing!

I'm the founder of Forward Email. We are 100% open source and privacy focused. We're the only service like this. Nobody compares in terms of respecting your right to privacy.

There is absolutely NO footer on the free plan. Where are you getting this information from? Are you just making false attacks to support your own service?

I have reported you to moderators.

Perhaps I misinterpreted this line in your faq?

https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#can-i-remove-the-via-forward...

Note that the "free plan" comment was about migadu's service not your service, migadu only ever adds text to the email on the free plan (as far as I can tell).

PS. The link in the TOC to that line in the faq is broken, presumably because of the extra dash before "in".

PPS. I have no relation to migadu except that I just signed up for it. The first time I heard of it was yesterday.

Migadu also limits you number of going mails a day. This is insanely bad practice, not to mention... have you read their Terms and Privacy policies? Steer clear for sure.

> Migadu also limits you number of going mails a day.

So does gmail (in their case to somewhere between roughly 150 and 500 depending on how you use the service). So does basically everyone if they don't want to get marked as a spammer and have their emails not delivered.

Migadu billing based on the number of emails per day is novel (to me), but having a limit is normal. Billing based on emails per day seems reasonable. The limit isn't strictly enforced either (per their website: https://www.migadu.com/en/drawbacks.html).

> have you read their Terms and Privacy policies

I have. They seem both reasonably short and not at all obnoxious. What issues do you have with them?

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