forwardemail.net VS smtp

Thanks for your feedback. We've updated our home page at https://forwardemail.net and added a dedicated link/section in our FAQ for "What is Forward Email" at https://forwardemail.net/faq#what-is-forward-email.

Commit: https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/commit/5942...

Here is the actual code in the back-end where we use your PGP public key:

Source code for PGP encryption for storage when you're connected (we only use your password in-memory, and never write it to disk on our side) @ https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Outbound email automatically checks for PGP key in case you didn't include the recipients (we use WKD): https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Your individual mailbox is a SQLite database file and is encrypted using ChaCha20-Poly1305 as well.

You can literally fix this right now with plain ole nodejs. https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/packages.html#subpath-imports - it’s not very well documented. It’s called sub path imports. See a great working example in this repo! (Also use forward email!!) - https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net - it works in commonjs and esmodules.

If all I needed was SMTP? I'd likely just use Amazon SES or Mailgun.

I know some folks have concerns with the privacy of that(1), and really want to run their own SMTP. If that's the case, Mail In A Box can do the job, or you can go with a pure SMTP solution like https://github.com/ix-ai/smtp (not endorsing it -- it's just been on my radar) or a roll-your-own Postfix/Exim solution. The latter requires almost zero resources after it's set up; slap it on a $20/year VM and you're done.

1. Chasing privacy with email is a chimera. If you really want private communications, email is not the tool.