ForwardMX
ForwardMX redirects email sent to addresses on your domains to a main inbox.
What ForwardMX is
ForwardMX redirects email sent to addresses on your domains to a main inbox. It supports catch-all forwarding, multiple recipients, and blackhole aliases for addresses that should not forward messages. Forwarded attachments have no stated limit, and the service does not forbid file types. The API is available on all account tiers and manages domains and aliases through HTTP GET or POST, returning JSON. Two-factor authorization adds a login step. Plans are paid: Personal costs €30 a year, while Starter is €7 a month, Pro is €12 a month, and Business is €19 a month. Domain, forwarder, and daily forwarding limits vary by plan; bulk or mass email is prohibited. Starter, Pro, and Business offer 5GB IMAP/POP3 mailboxes for an extra €2/mo. The service provides setup guides for several domain registrars and says its support team handles email-forwarding questions seven days per week, but not general technology help or third-party code debugging. There is no free plan or trial, though new users are offered a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Good
- Catch-all forwarding and multiple recipients
- API access on every account tier
- No stated attachment limit or barred file types
- Two-factor authorization is available
- 30-day money-back guarantee for new users
Watch out
- No free plan or free trial
- Daily forwarding limits vary by plan
- Bulk or mass email is prohibited
- Mailbox add-on costs €2/mo on listed business tiers
Who it suits
ForwardMX suits people who want messages sent to custom-domain addresses redirected to a main inbox, including those needing catch-all aliases or API-based domain and alias management. Check plan forwarding limits if daily volume matters.
Verdict
ForwardMX combines domain-based forwarding with catch-all aliases and an API available across its plans. The key tradeoffs are paid-only access, plan-specific daily limits, and the separate mailbox charge on Starter, Pro, and Business.
Plans and prices
From ForwardMX's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $6 a month | 30 domains · 100 forwarders/domain · 2,000 forwarded emails/day/domain · unlimited team members · 10 additional SMTP users · 5GB mailbox add-on $2/m · $72/yr |
| Starter | €7 a month | Up to 25 domains · 100 forwarders per domain · 2,000 forwarded emails per day per domain · unlimited team members · SMTP for outbound email · 5GB IMAP/POP3 mailboxes €2/mo extra · €7 / mo |
| Pro | €12 a month | Up to 125 domains · 500 forwarders per domain · 4,000 forwarded emails per day per domain · unlimited team members · SMTP for outbound email · 5GB IMAP/POP3 mailboxes €2/mo extra · €12 / mo |
| Pro | $18 a month | 125 domains · 500 forwarders/domain · 4,000 forwarded emails/day/domain · unlimited team members · 25 additional SMTP users · 5GB mailbox add-on $2/m · $216/yr |
| Business | €19 a month | Up to 250 domains · 1,000 forwarders per domain · 10,000 forwarded emails per day per domain · unlimited team members · SMTP for outbound email · 5GB IMAP/POP3 mailboxes €2/mo extra · €19 / mo |
| Business | $30 a month | 250 domains · 1,000 forwarders/domain · 10,000 forwarded emails/day/domain · unlimited team members · 100 additional SMTP users · 5GB mailbox add-on $2/m · $360/yr |
| Personal | $30 a year | 1 domain · 100 forwarders · 500 forwarded emails/day · catch-all · DKIM/SPF/SRS · spam filtering · SMTP · $30 per year |
| Personal | €30 a year | 1 domain · up to 100 forwarders · 500 forwarded emails per day · catch-all forwarding · DKIM, SPF & SRS · spam filtering · SMTP access · €30/year |
The facts
Each one read from ForwardMX's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alias capacity
- ForwardMX advertises unlimited aliases, while plan-specific forwarder and daily-message limits still apply.checked 15 Oct 2001
- API
- The API is available on all account tiers and supports managing domains and aliases using HTTP GET or POST, returning JSON.checked 7 Oct 2001
- API capabilities
- The public API can add or remove domains, change catch-all settings, and create, edit or delete aliases.checked 15 Oct 2001
- API protocol
- EmailForwardMX API documentation describes HTTP GET or POST requests with form fields and JSON responses.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Attachments
- The site says forwarded emails with attachments have no limit and no file types are forbidden.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Blackhole aliases
- Blackhole aliases are defined email aliases that do not forward messages.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Catch-all aliases
- The service supports catch-all email aliases for a domain.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Catch-all forwarding
- Catch-all addresses receive mail sent to otherwise unallocated addresses on a domain.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Developer tooling
- Officially mentioned integrations include a WordPress plugin and Ruby Gem; PHP/Composer and Clojure libraries are identified as unofficial.checked 15 Oct 2001
- DNS integrations
- Official setup guides cover Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, GoDaddy, Amazon Route53, Namecheap and Google Domains.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Email authentication
- DKIM, SPF and SRS are included in every listed plan.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Email-content privacy
- The pricing FAQ says messages are retained only long enough to forward and troubleshooting logs containing sender and subject data are deleted after seven days.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Enterprise extensibility
- Enterprise customers can obtain WHMCS provisioning, dedicated infrastructure and white-label servers.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Gmail integration
- ForwardMX documents using its forwarding and SMTP service to receive and send custom-domain mail through Gmail.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Independent comparison
- nanoPost lists EmailForwardMX, a sister brand, with comparable forwarding features, API access, unlimited team members and mailbox add-ons, while noting different currencies and plan names.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Independent review: outage
- A 2019 independent review reported that forwarding stopped after about two months and that support did not answer for nearly two weeks.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Licence
- Terms grant only a limited, revocable service-use licence and reserve intellectual-property rights to ForwardMX Limited or its licensors.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Limit: account-review complaint
- A February 2026 Trustpilot reviewer said account creation was held for manual review and that invoice-due emails continued afterward.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Limit: delivery reliability
- A Capterra reviewer reported occasional email-delivery problems.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Limit: historical outages
- Several 2019 Trustpilot reviews report forwarding failures, dropped mail and lack of support; company replies attribute those incidents to the former owners before its 2020 acquisition.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Mailbox add-on
- Customers can add 5GB mailboxes for $2 per month.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Money-back guarantee
- New customers can request a full refund within 30 days by opening a support ticket.checked 15 Oct 2001
The company
- Company scope
- ForwardMX says it is a UK-based remote-team company serving customers worldwide and handling almost 10,000 domain names.checked 15 Oct 2001
- Headquarters
- Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, England, IP28 7DEchecked 28 Sep 2001
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