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Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in.

Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup

Don't determine the users language by the country the request is coming from. My browser wants English, despite me being in Germany, so don't show me the German page. The good thing though was that besides the language selector nothing else was translated.

It actually doesn't determine it by the country the request is coming from.

How it works is fully documented here: https://github.com/ladjs/i18n#i18nmiddlewarectx-next

1) Check URL (e.g. if /de or /de/ then it's a de locale - as long as de is a supported locale)

2) Use the custom function (if provided by the detectLocale parameter) for locale detection

3) Check the "locale" cookie value (or whatever the cookie option is defined as)

4) Check Accept-Language header

Regarding nothing being translated, there was an issue with our locales folder sync and that's being resolved soon!

I was recently looking for an email forwarding service to use for a few months, initially I was searching Github for a decent OSS project that could do this for me, which is when I found your repo for Forward Email. The repo code was exactly what I was looking for, but after browsing your site and noticing how open and transparent it all was, I was instantly sold and bought the Enhanced package.

So ultimately, your open source code and business transparency[0] is what convinced me to pay instead of self-host.

Thank you for making it.

[0] https://forwardemail.net/en/open-startup

Super cool. How do you prevent your sending from ending up in spam folders?

We're working on Spam Scanner because we weren't happy with rspamd nor SpamAssassin or any other archaic or non-trivial closed-door tech. See https://spamscanner.net for more!

I use and pay for https://anonaddy.com/ its also FOSS and can be self hosted.

Quick question that I couldn't find in your FAQ: Can you reply to forwarded emails? As in can you communicate back and forth with someone sending emails to an alias?

I've used a free email forwarding service which didn't give me this functionality (maybe this isn't common practice).

That is not possible with forwarded emails. You need an actual SMTP server to send emails from your domain.

Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!

Safari cannot open the page.

The error was “could not decode raw data”

Looks like you've gotten the HN hug of death

Just a normal DDoS that we're mitigating

Resolved

I use this and it works great!

I use it ♥

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