Mailcast
Mailcast is an email routing service for sending incoming messages onward to an existing email service, multiple recipients, or a website or app through webh…
What Mailcast is
Mailcast is an email routing service for sending incoming messages onward to an existing email service, multiple recipients, or a website or app through webhooks. It supports catch-all addresses, regular-expression alias matching, plus addressing, and rules that can take conditional actions or change a subject before forwarding. Webhooks can receive parsed messages as JSON, form data, or multipart data with attachments. Mailcast also supports sending email from alias addresses through SMTP. Its plans list SPF, DKIM, and DMARC support, and the maker says TLS is used for email while it is received and forwarded, with queued messages encrypted in storage. Successfully processed messages are deleted by default; failed messages and their logs are deleted, and logs are removed after seven days. Only the subject line is logged to help identify messages. Mailcast is available on web and through an API. The Free plan is free and includes one domain and up to 25 aliases, but excludes webhooks and sending from the domain. Paid plans start at $5 a month; a Personal plan is $24 a year.
Good
- Catch-all and plus-addressing support
- Routes email to multiple recipients or webhooks
- Conditional rules can change subjects
- SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on every plan
- Seven-day free trial; no card required
Watch out
- Free plan is limited to one domain
- Free plan has no webhook support
- Free plan cannot send from the domain
- Free plan allows up to 25 aliases
Who it suits
Mailcast suits side projects, freelancers, small businesses, schools, clubs, nonprofits, and families that need to route email through aliases or webhooks. The Free plan may fit those who need one domain and no webhook support or domain sending.
Verdict
Mailcast combines alias-based routing, email forwarding, and webhook delivery, with message handling and retention details specified by the maker. Check the plan limits carefully: the Free plan does not include webhooks or sending from the domain.
Plans and prices
From Mailcast's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Only 1 domain · Up to 25 aliases · No webhook support · 10Mb attachment limit · No sending from domain · per month |
| Starter | $5 a month | Up to 10 domains · Unlimited aliases · Webhook support · 25Mb attachment limit · Send from domain (100 emails per day) · per month |
| Essential | $9 a month | Up to 30 domains · Unlimited aliases · Webhook support · 50Mb attachment limit · Send from domain (200 emails per day) · Priority sending · per month |
| Premium | $19 a month | Up to 100 domains · Unlimited aliases · Webhook support · 50Mb attachment limit · Send from domain (1000 emails per day) · Priority sending · per month |
| Personal | $24 a year | Only 1 domain · Unlimited aliases · No webhook support · 25Mb attachment limit · Send from domain (50 emails per day) · per year |
The facts
Each one read from Mailcast's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Aliases and routing
- Features include catch-all addresses, regular-expression alias matching, plus addressing, and forwarding to multiple recipients or webhooks.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Audience
- The maker lists side projects, freelancers, small businesses, schools, clubs, nonprofits, and families as users.checked 2 Oct 2001
- DNS providers
- The documentation provides DNS setup instructions for AWS Route 53, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun, Squarespace, and Wix.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Domain authentication
- The pricing page lists SPF, DKIM, and DMARC support for every plan, including Free.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Email retention
- The maker says successfully processed email is deleted by default, failed email is deleted with its logs, and logs are deleted after 7 days.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Email security
- The maker says TLS encryption is used when receiving and forwarding email, and queued email is encrypted in storage.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Email sending
- Mailcast supports sending email via SMTP from alias addresses.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Logged content
- The maker says only the subject line from email content is logged to help identify messages in the logs.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- Mailcast receives and processes email, including forwarding it, passing it through to an existing email service, or sending it to a website or app using webhooks.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Rules and rewriting
- Users can configure conditional actions and append to or replace the subject before forwarding.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Support
- The documentation directs users to contact support when they cannot find the information they need.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Webhook formats
- Mailcast can send parsed email as JSON, form data, or attachment-bearing multipart data to a webhook or API endpoint.checked 2 Oct 2001
The company
- Headquarters
- Randburg, South Africachecked 28 Sep 2001
Money
- Trial
- Mailcast offers a 7-day free trial and says no credit card is required to sign up.checked 2 Oct 2001
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