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Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#31

Post by foreigner » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

I use ImprovMX for this.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#32

Post by howmayiannoyyou » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

Doesn't Google Domains do this at no extra charge if you host with them, or am I nuts?

(I may be nuts, its almost a certainty actually)

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#33

Post by delduca » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #32

Doesn't Google Domains do this at no extra charge if you host with them, or am I nuts? (I may be nuts, its almost a certainty actually)

Yes, they do.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#34

Post by songzme » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 5:27 PM UTC

Very cool! My friends and I built https://m8l.me/ which is very similar and we've been using it for the past year. Instead of forwarding to email address like maildog, m8l.me forwards all emails to your server (or any server) as a POST request. If you don't receive many emails a month you could use the free AWS EC2 instance and store the emails in sqlite, thereby creating unlimited custom email addresses on your domain for free.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#35

Post by devops000 » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

How it could be use to send email using Gmail “send as alias”? Like sending as sales@example.com from your own gmail account

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#36

Post by freedomben » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

jtolj wrote: post #12

fiatjaf wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great! Thank you. There is also https://forwardemail.net/ which is a different service.

Was just about to post this. I've been using it from the beginning for all of my "pre-launch" domains and it has been flawless.

I also use forwardemail.net and pay for premium. It's fantastic, although I haven't made use of the APIs yet so can't speak to that.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#37

Post by ents » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

foreigner wrote: post #31

I use ImprovMX for this.

I use a similar service, forwardemail.net for this, and it's free.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#38

Post by admn2 » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 7:31 PM UTC

ImrpovMX.com handles this nicely too (for free)

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#39

Post by jaden » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 8:34 PM UTC

admn2 wrote: post #38

ImrpovMX.com handles this nicely too (for free)

There's a typo in the URL. It's https://improvmx.com/ and is free for 1 domain, $9/month for up to 100 domains & 100 aliases per domain.

Re: Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions

#40

Post by opheliate » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

songzme wrote: post #34

Very cool! My friends and I built https://m8l.me/ which is very similar and we've been using it for the past year. Instead of forwarding to email address like maildog, m8l.me forwards all emails to your server (or any server) as a POST request. If you don't receive many emails a month you could use the free AWS EC2 instance and store the emails in sqlite, thereby creating unlimited custom email addresses on your doma…

M8L looks great, nice work! Are you able to give any insight into the architecture? I'm always paranoid when putting free tools online that they're going to suddenly get a wave of users & cost me a ton.