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Hi! I'm ImprovMX's founder. You are correct that you'd reach the limit of 5 free alias in your case. Upgrading to the monthly plan at 9$ would allow you to have up to 100 aliases.

Happy to answer any questions that you might need!

Thanks for the link @collin128! I'm the founder of ImprovMX, happy to answer any questions!

If your main use case is to keep using Gmail with a custom domain, then it’s still possible to achieve it using our service - improvmx.com. We’ve prepared a guide that explains how to migrate step-by-step: https://improvmx.com/guides/gsuite-legacy-free-edition-alter...

Achieving the same functionality is possible on our free plan, and you can still use Gmail’s free SMTP method (https://improvmx.com/guides/send-emails-using-gmail/) to send emails from your alias, so no need to upgrade to anything.

One main caveat: since it’s not possible to downgrade a G Suite account to a « free » one, you would need to create a new Google account for each of your users. That would mean that you’d lose all previously bought subscriptions or apps bought on Google Play with your account.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

What is the substitute for caffeine you used? Can you share a link to the product to see what it is about? (I'm hoping I can also access it as a French)

Thanks!

I'm unable to try to compute something similar by indicating the quantity and the percentage of alcohol, such as :

"2 beers (composition of 8% alcohol, 44cl) in 1 hour at 80kg"

I tried with or without parenthesis and with varying query. Never worked.

Any ideas?

(I'm interesting on knowing the level of blood alcohol percentage and the duration it takes to go under the limit, depending on the percentage of alcohol and quantity)

There was a leak from Exxon (always them) (source: https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobi...) ? That showed they made campaigns to push the responsibility to the public.

We can do all the efforts we can, if the big corps don't act properly, it will be for nothing.

I think I prefer. It helps me cut with the mental load of the day, and helps me go to sleep faster, even with a technical book (except on rare case when the book is about my work and get my gears going ;) ).

Reading in the morning is impossible for me, I have to manage three young children go to school and I go to work right after that.

I'm not an early bird too so it doesn't help ;)

But I do believe that, in summer, going out early, reading a book outside when the sun has just started to get up, might be something amazing :)

I try to read every night before going to bed, and I'm trying to alternate between a technical book, and a pleasure book.

I recently finished the whole lot of Foundation from Asimov, Zero to sold from Arvid Kahl and I'm currently reading "The wealth of Nations" from Adam Smith (Gotta admit, it hurts).

The motivation behind alternating between pleasure and technical is to try to increase my knowledge (even though I feel like I retain 1% of what I read), and to enjoy reading too (with the pleasure book)

On my to read next list, I have:

- High growth Handbook (Elad Gil) (Pleaure book) - Utopia - Thomas More (Technical) - Beyond the rift - Peter Watts (Pleasure) - Manufacturing consent (Noam Chomsky) (Technical) - Children of time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Unfortunately not from where I live (in the east of France)

That would be a great initiative, but I lack the funds to start that - and the credibility to create a company in that direction.

Ahahah, none taken, that's why we redesigned it :)

Before changing their price, Mailgun was (my) target competitor, with the idea that if I can compete with them, we would be good as a company rather than a side project. Now, this seems more than possible with their new pricing!

Hi and thank you for your warm words!

I agree that having your personal email in clear in a public DNS records is not great (and goes again the privacy statement), but I can also understand the appeal to the Open-source ideology :)

For information, we are discussing on our end about ways to improve our transparency and show our users that we are not storing any emails or selling them or anything like this. It's easy to say it on the landing page, but that's not proof. Right now, we are thinking about hiring an audit firm to do that work and certify that our words are true, we think it's the best thing to do.

I think it's even better than open-sourcing our code because we could publish our code, crying out loud that we are open source, but still run an alternative version of our code on our server. You can't verify that. But an audit will clearly prove what's going on under the hood.

We have three core rules we like to follow: 1. An easy to use interface 2. A fast and awesome support 3. Respecting the users (or, the way I put it, be able to face myself in the mirror in the morning)

That's a good point! I'll take note of that, thank you.

That's interesting that you thought it was older, it's worth taking notes of this.

I agree that the open-source part is the USP for ForwardEmail that we haven't. The thing on our end is that we have already thought about opensourcing a few parts of our service, but if we don't do all, it doesn't matter to do partially.

So instead, we plan to have an audit from an external service to guarantee that what we say and offer is aligned with the respect of our users and privacy. That's the next step :)

Thank you very much, I also hope it will succeed :D

Thank you. We're open to suggestions in terms of pricing (believe me, we spent quite some time arguing about the pricing and what to includes :) ).

What is missing for you in the free plan that you would be willing to pay for (but less than $110/year)?

(Note that the premium plan is at $90 if you pay yearly).

Thank you in advance :)

I wonder how you found out that Forwardemail is older. You made me curious so I checked and from the whois details, Forwardemail was registered on 10/2017 whereas ImprovMX was registered on 08/2013.

We've acquired ImprovMX in 2017 and greatly improved the service (from a single DO droplet to multiple powerful servers to handle thousands of emails per hours).

Thank you!

Indeed, losing emails is really bad. We do our best to avoid this and try to be very reactive when things go south, but it's not possible to guarantee you that we will never lose any emails (no one can).

We acquired the service back in 2017. At the time, it was ranking already well for "free email redirection" so we focused on that. The core service is still free, but we added a lot of features (and continue to do so) in the paid "premium" parts.

I hope I have answered your questions :)

I can understand, yes. The reason we decided to allow 25Mb for paid plan is to avoid abuses.

Hi,

Maybe https://improvmx.com might be the solution you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be totally transparent).

Thank you for your post. I run ImprovMX and it's with pleasure that you liked using it :)

We are on the verge to release a sending feature and the decision from Mailgun to drop this came at a great surprise for us.

I always thought of Mailgun like the "unreachable competitor", kind of like "reach for the moon" type of target. But since they moved their forwarding feature to a costly paid plan, it's just like the moon vanished from our trajectory.

Anyway, I'm open to answer any questions if you have any. I also posted about ImprovMX here on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223783) and ready to answer all the questions there too.

Maybe https://improvmx.com would be what you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be fully transparent). We offer up to 5 domains for free.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)

You are 100% right. It started the same with our service; we bought back ImprovMX (I don't put the link as I'm not looking for publicity - just for reference) when it was just a 5$ droplet at Digital Ocean, and now we have 10 big servers, more than 700$ monthly cost (and I honestly think it's not that much) and have to handle all the messy parts of delivering an email.

It's easy to send an email, but it's way harder to ensure that the emails you send are delivered properly.

You are right, most VPS provider for instance, don't give just one IPv6, but a full range. One might be able to implement a spamming server with rotating IPv6.

Spamhaus has released a "blocking strategy" for IPv6 to exactly address this issue: https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/668/spamhaus-releases-...

Hi, I'm Cyril and I run ImprovMX.com - an email forwarding tool - with my co-founder Antoine.

We discovered the Mailgun’s price change last week and noticed they dropped the “free email forwarding” options they had, now asking for $420/year for this feature.

We’ve seen a great increase in interest for email forwarding services and received a few questions via Twitter or as a comment in the Mailgun’s thread on HN.

So I’m happy to answer all the questions you might have, here.

We do our best to be as transparent as we can. We are aware that emails are a sensitive topic and user privacy is something important, even more today. I think that having an open discussion here on HN might alleviate some bias that some of you might have - at least that’s what I hope to accomplish here!

I've been a user at Mailgun for a few years now. Easily sending more than 625 emails per month.

When they launched the new pricing, they said that only the new users will be affected. Maybe they'll change that in the future, but for now, I don't worry.

I run https://improvmx.com, a service to forward incoming emails to a personal inbox (like @gmail's). Is this what you are looking for?

Thanks!

Thank you for your reply. From my understanding, what you suggest is that a backscatter uses a return path email that does not exists?

My understanding was that a backscatter uses an email that is not his, in order to deliver a message without sending it directly (and making the bounce server act like a spammer).

Am I missing something?

How can you know when you're about to send a bounce to a backscatter? I'd love to know this!