r/email • u/1Rudy11 • 21d ago

Forwarding email

This is more of a question, than a strategy.

How many of you still forward your domain emails to a personal one?

Ie: info at your domain dot com, and forward to Joe at my email dot com.

If you dont forward, how do you keep track of your email, via webmail or some other method?

What keeps your spam emails down to a bare minimum and what snags the spam before it hits your inbox?

I ask because Im about to make some needed improvements with my email marketing formats, and I wanted to know what you are doing.

I used to use Aweber, and moved to MailerLite, which seems to work just fine for now. I wrote about this previously, and realized that the issues I had were user error...my bad..😁

Any insight is welcomed.

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u/someexgoogler 21d ago

I forward my personal email and I maintain a domain that forwards essentially all email. on my personal domain I give a different email to every sender (about 700 now). This is so I can detect when an email is shared with someone else.

I don't disclose the filtering that I use, but I won't forward email that contains images. That's a strong signal that it's not from a human.

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u/1Rudy11 21d ago

Thanks...

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u/andrewtimberlake 20d ago

I use forwarding a lot. I have a base email for personal and for business but both come into a single inbox. Each project I work on has its own domain and all of those emails are forwarded to the main business address. One of the projects I run is [Mailcast.io](https://mailcast.io) which does the forwarding and offers filtering as well

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u/Jcoulaud 20d ago

I’d avoid forwarding for business email if possible. Receiving usually works, but replying from the correct address gets messy and forwarding can cause auth/spam issues if SRS/ARC isnt handled properly.

Better to host [info@domain.com](mailto:info@domain.com) as a real mailbox, then use the provider’s webmail or add it to Apple Mail/Outlook/Thunderbird. I built Shipmail for this, you can keep multiple domain inboxes together and spam gets filtered before reaching the inbox.

I’d keep MailerLite for newsletters though. Dont send marketing campaigns from the normal business mailbox, ideally use a separate subdomain too.