Developers
Free Email Developer Tools and Resources
Developer-focused email API, tools, and resources to send email, trigger webhooks, forward messages, and more.
Email API for Developers - RESTful API with Webhooks & SMTP 2026
Powerful RESTful email API for developers. Send transactional emails, manage domains, create aliases programmatically. Comprehensive documentation, SDKs, and code examples.
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Free Email Webhooks - HTTP Callbacks for Incoming Email 2026
Receive email via HTTP webhooks. Forward incoming emails to your API endpoint as JSON. Perfect for helpdesks, CRMs, and automation. No server required.
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Email Regex Filtering - Advanced Pattern Matching for Custom Domains
Filter and route emails using regular expressions. Create complex forwarding rules with regex patterns. Support for wildcards, catch-all, and conditional routing.
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A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript
In the JavaScript and Node.js world, some packages are essential—downloaded millions of times daily and powering apps worldwide. Behind these tools are developers focused on open source quality. Today, we're showing how our team helps build and maintain npm packages that have become key parts of the JavaScript ecosystem.
A Decade of Open-Source Impact
Amazon WorkMail Migration Guide: Step-by-Step Switch to Forward Email Before the 2027 Shutdown
Complete step-by-step guide to migrate from Amazon WorkMail to Forward Email before the March 2027 shutdown. Export emails, configure DNS, and set up IMAP.
Migrate from WorkMail
Best Email Spam Protection Filter
Prevent spam, phishing. malware, ad-blocking, pixel trackers, and more for contact forms and mail servers.
Email Spam Protection
Best Mail Server Providers
Comprehensive comparison of VPS and dedicated server providers for hosting mail servers (SMTP servers).
Mail Server Providers
Best Practices for Node.js Logging
Learn more about the best practices, standards, and metadata for Node.js and JavaScript logging.
Logging Best Practices
Best Security Audit Companies
Discover the best security audit companies from our curated and opinionated list of independent cybersecurity research and penetration testing companies.
Security Audits
Building a Privacy-First AI Support Agent with LanceDB & Ollama
Learn how we built a self-hosted AI customer support agent using LanceDB, Ollama, and Node.js. GDPR-compliant, privacy-first, and completely under our control.
Privacy-First AI Support Agent
Case Study: Gov/Federal Section 889 Email Compliance
Our commitment to government email compliance was recently put into practice when the US Naval Academy approached Forward Email. They required secure email forwarding services and needed documentation confirming our adherence to federal regulations, including Section 889 compliance.
Case Study: Gov/Federal Email Compliance
Case Study: How Forward Email Powers Alumni Email Solutions for Top Universities
We've built the world's most secure, private, and flexible email forwarding service for prestigious universities and their alumni.
Case Study: Alumni Email
Case Study: How Ubuntu Powers Email Management with Forward Email's Open-Source Enterprise Solution
Discover how Canonical streamlined email management across Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Edubuntu domains using Forward Email's open-source, quantum-resistant enterprise solution with seamless SSO integration.
Case Study: Ubuntu Email
Case Study: How the Linux Foundation Optimizes Email Management Across 250+ Domains with Forward Email
The Linux Foundation manages over 900 open-source projects across 250+ domains, including linux.com and jQuery.com. This case study explores how they partnered with Forward Email.
Case Study: Linux Foundation
Complete Email API with IMAP, CardDAV & CalDAV REST Endpoints
First complete REST API for email management. 20 endpoints for contacts, calendars, messages & folders. No IMAP complexity, simple authentication.
IMAP/CardDAV/CalDAV REST Endpoints
Custom Fonts in Emails
Learn how to use custom fonts in HTML emails without design software. Complete guide with web font fallbacks, CSS techniques, and email client compatibility tips.
Custom Fonts
Email Protocols & RFC Compliance: IMAP, SMTP, POP3 Comparison
Complete guide to email protocols & RFC compliance. Compare IMAP, SMTP, POP3, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, ARC standards. Learn email security, CalDAV, encryption & protocol support across providers.
Email protocols & RFC compliance
Email Regex JavaScript and Node.js
Email address regex matching pattern for JavaScript and Node.js. Works in Node v14+ and browsers.
Email Address Regex
Email Testing for Browsers and iOS Simulator
Test, render, and preview emails automatically with cross-browser mail clients, tools, browsers, and the iOS Simulator.
Email Testing
Forward Email MCP Server - Connect AI to Your Email API
Open-source MCP server for Forward Email. 68 tools covering email, domains, aliases, contacts, calendars, and Sieve scripts. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Windsurf.
MCP Setup Guide
How Email Forwarding Works: The Complete Guide to Forward Email's Service
Explore the technical implementations that make our service one of the most privacy-focused email forwarding solutions available.
Email Privacy Deep Dive
How to Optimize Node.js Production Infrastructure: Best Practices
Node.js production deployment best practices from our battle-tested infrastructure that handles millions of requests daily.
Optimize Node.js for Production
Introducing Crypto Payments: Enhanced Privacy for Your Email Service
We now accept cryptocurrency payments through Stripe's crypto payment integration.
Crypto Supported Email
Introducing Our Self-Hosted Email Stack
Fully open source, self-hosted email solution that gives you complete control, transparency, and privacy.
Self-Hosted Email
JavaScript Contact Forms Node.js
Create and send JavaScript contact forms with Node, React, React Native, Koa, Express, Fastify, and Nodemailer SMTP.
Contact Forms
Node.js DNS over HTTPS
How to send a DNS over HTTPS request using Node.js and JavaScript packages. Complete code examples, configuration tutorial, and production best practices for secure DNS resolution.
DNS over HTTPS
Node.js Email Templates
Send emails and HTML/CSS templates with Node.js, React, Express, Koa, Nodemailer, and JavaScript with SMTP and developer source code samples, examples, and instructions.
Node.js Email
Node.js Job Scheduler
Learn how to schedule jobs in Node.js and JavaScript using cron syntax. Complete guide with examples for task automation, recurring jobs, and production deployment.
Job Scheduler
PayPal's 11-Year API Disaster: Missing Features & Broken Promises
How PayPal ignored 11 years of developer feedback, missing basic subscription APIs, executive turnover, and forcing workarounds. The complete timeline.
Case Study: The PayPal Disaster
Quantum Resistant Email Service
Encrypted quantum-resistant mailboxes to protect your privacy. Secure email for business and custom domains with post-quantum cryptography and 100% open-source software. Future-proof your communications against quantum computing threats with NIST-approved encryption algorithms.
Quantum Resistant Email
Reserved Email Addresses
List of 1250+ generic, admin, mailer-daemon, and no-reply usernames reserved for security concerns.
Reserved Email Addresses
SQLite Performance Optimization: Production PRAGMA Settings
Complete SQLite optimization guide with real benchmark data. Learn Forward Email's production PRAGMA settings, ChaCha20 encryption, WAL mode tuning, and Node.js performance across versions.
SQLite Performance Optimization
Send React Emails
Send emails from React and Node.js web apps using HTML, CSS, and JSX templates. Production-ready SMTP integration guide with code examples and best practices.
React Email
The Email Startup Graveyard: Why Most Email Companies Fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
Case Study: Email Startups
The Trifecta Approach: How Forward Email Built a Bulletproof Payment System with Stripe and PayPal
Learn how our development team integrated both Stripe and PayPal using a trifecta approach that ensures 1:1 real-time accuracy across our entire system.
Payment System Trifecta
The Ultimate Guide to Email Privacy Protection: How Forward Email Safeguards Your Communications
We've built the world's most secure, private, and flexible email forwarding service.
Ultimate Email Forwarding Guide
URL Regex JavaScript and Node.js
URL regex matching pattern for JavaScript and Node.js. Resolves CVE-2020-7661 and works in Node v10.12.0+ and browsers.
URL Regex
Why Open-Source Email is the Future: Security, Privacy, and Transparency
Explore why open-source email solutions are superior to closed-source alternatives.
The Future of Email
