NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding routes messages sent to domain addresses to existing email accounts or URLs on a customer’s site.
What NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding is
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding routes messages sent to domain addresses to existing email accounts or URLs on a customer’s site. The member interface allows any number of individual forwarding addresses, catch-all forwarding, and multiple recipients. This is inbound forwarding only: customers must arrange their own mailbox and outbound email service, and SMTP, POP, and IMAP hosting are not provided. The service blocks known malicious senders, applies delivery restrictions, and quarantines messages that fail its content filter. Filtering cannot be disabled or bypassed, and the provider says some spam may pass to limit false positives. If a destination account is unavailable, mail is held for up to five days and then delivered. Forwarding is independent of domain registration, DNS, and web hosting, and can be added or removed without a contract. Pricing is $0.03 a month, billed at $0.03 per domain per day, or $10.95/year ($10.98 in leap years). The provider describes the service as do-it-yourself for experienced webmasters and self-motivated users, without service-level agreements or uptime guarantees.
Good
- Any number of forwarding addresses
- Catch-all and multiple recipients supported
- Mail held up to five days during outages
- No contract or commitment
- Can be added independently to domains
Watch out
- Inbound mail only
- No SMTP, POP, or IMAP mailboxes
- Filtering cannot be disabled
- No uptime guarantee
Who it suits
It suits experienced webmasters and self-motivated users who need domain forwarding to existing mailboxes. It is intended for inbound routing rather than hosted email or outbound sending.
Verdict
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding provides flexible inbound routing at a clearly listed per-domain rate. Arrange separate mailbox and outbound services, and account for its fixed filtering and lack of uptime guarantees.
Plans and prices
From NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Email Forwarding | $0.03 a month | per domain · any number of forwarding addresses · no contract or commitment · $0.03 per domain per day; $10.95/year (or $10.98 in leap years) |
The facts
Each one read from NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Email Forwarding's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Address setup
- Customers can set up as many individual forwarding addresses as they want through the member interface.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Availability promise
- The provider says it does not offer service-level agreements or uptime guarantees.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Catch-all
- Customers can use catch-all forwarding to send all mail for a domain to one address.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Commitment
- Email forwarding has no contracts or commitments and can be added to or removed from a domain at any time.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Domain relationship
- Email forwarding is optional and independent of the provider’s domain registration, DNS, and web hosting services.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Email hosting
- The FAQ lists SMTP, POP, and IMAP email servers among services that do not work on its system, so this offering is forwarding rather than hosted mailboxes.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Filtering limit
- Email filtering cannot be disabled or bypassed; the provider says its minimal content filter may let spam through to avoid blocking legitimate messages.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Inbound only
- The service only handles and forwards inbound mail; customers must arrange their own mailbox and outbound email service.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Intended users
- The company describes its overall service as do-it-yourself and aimed at experienced webmasters and self-motivated users.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Mail hold
- If the destination email account goes down, the service holds mail for up to five days and delivers it when the account is ready.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Mail recovery
- If the destination account goes down, the service holds mail for up to five days and delivers it when the account is ready.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Pricing flexibility
- Forwarding can be added to or removed from any domain at any time and is independent of the provider's domain registration, DNS, and web hosting services.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Privacy
- The provider says it does not retain private payment details such as credit card numbers after a deposit is made.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- Forwards email sent to addresses at a domain to existing email accounts or URLs on the customer's site.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Service
- Email Forwarding sends addresses at a domain to existing email accounts or URLs on the customer’s site.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Spam filter limit
- The provider says its content filter is tuned for very few false positives but allows some spam through, and its filtering cannot be disabled or bypassed.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Spam protection
- The service blocks known malicious senders, applies delivery restrictions and minimal content filtering, and quarantines messages that fail its filter.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Support
- Baseline membership includes community forum support and documentation, while individual private support is offered with a subscription membership.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Who it suits
- The provider describes its service as do-it-yourself and aimed at experienced webmasters and strongly self-motivated users.checked 8 Oct 2001
The company
- Founded
- 2002checked 28 Sep 2001
- Headquarters
- Lake Mary, Florida, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2001
- Maker location
- The company says its business operates in the United States and almost all services are provided from its primary data center in the New York City metro area.checked 8 Oct 2001
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