Email Forwarding.
Mail to your real inbox, without the rough edges.
You have a domain. You do not want to host a mailbox for it. You want anything sent to that domain (or to a specific address on it) to land in an inbox you already use. That is email forwarding. It sounds simple, and at the surface it is, but the rough edges are real: SPF and DKIM alignment when forwarding, spam filtering before the forward so the pipe does not become a spam pipe to your primary inbox, reliability under load, catch-all routing, and the ability to actually reach a human when something is not behaving.
Email Forwarding is the DuoCircle product for the cases where reliability and authentication actually matter. Same SMTP backbone as the rest of the routing portfolio, operating since 2014.
The cheap forwarders skip the parts that matter
The free and consumer-grade forwarding services exist for a reason. If you have one personal domain and a handful of addresses going to a Gmail inbox, they will probably do the job, until they do not. The failure modes are familiar: silent drops, sudden spam classification at the destination, SPF or DKIM breaking after a vendor change, the operator vanishing without notice, no support channel that responds in business hours.
Email Forwarding is built for the cases where any of those failure modes is unacceptable. Authentication-aware forwarding so the destination sees clean SPF and DKIM. Spam filtering before the forward, not after. Catch-all and multi-recipient routing as first-class features. A real support channel staffed by experts who actually know SMTP. Reasonable pricing because forwarding is plumbing, not a premium product.
The product sits inside the broader Route portfolio alongside Backup MX and Tenant Migration. The same routing engine powers all three. When forwarding is the bridge between a legacy address space and a new tenant, that path is already wired.
The mechanics
Catch-all and per-address forwarding, multi-recipient fan-out, spam filtering before the forward, SPF and DKIM aware delivery, the same SMTP backbone behind the rest of the portfolio, and pricing that matches the actual cost of running the service.
Domain forwarding with catch-all
Forward every address on a domain (catch-all) or a curated list of specific addresses to wherever they need to land. The catch-all is what most teams want when they consolidate. Aliases that nobody documented, role addresses that quietly receive vendor mail, the whole long tail keeps working without anyone having to inventory it first.
Multi-recipient routing
A single inbound address can forward to multiple destination mailboxes. Departmental aliases, contact-form recipients, role-based addresses that fan out to a small team. The routing rule is configurable, the destinations are independent, and a delivery problem at one destination does not silently break the others.
Spam filtering before the forward
Inbound mail is filtered before it gets relayed onward. You do not want a forwarding pipe to become a spam pipe to your real inbox. We filter first, then forward, so the destination mailbox sees the same filtered stream it would if mail had arrived natively.
SPF and DKIM aware
Forwarding without breaking authentication is harder than it looks. The forwarder rewrites and re-authenticates so the destination sees a clean SPF and DKIM result, not a borderline message that the receiving mailbox quietly puts in junk. The cheap consumer forwarders skip this step; we do not.
Reliable delivery infrastructure
Same SMTP backbone that powers Outbound SMTP, Backup MX, and the rest of the routing portfolio. Reputation, throttling, and retry handled at the platform level. When the destination is having a slow day, we hold and retry; when the destination is healthy, mail moves through promptly without batching artifacts.
Plumbing-tier pricing
Forwarding is plumbing, and we do not price it like a premium product, because it is not one. The pricing matches the cost of running the service. SMB rates are realistic, multi-domain rates are realistic, and there is no per-feature add-on for the parts that should always have been included.
The audience
- Domain owners consolidating mail from multiple domains into a primary inbox without paying per-mailbox prices for every domain
- Organizations doing tenant cutovers or domain consolidations where forwarding bridges the legacy address space to the new mail platform
- Acquiring companies absorbing another company's email and needing forwarding to maintain continuity for legacy addresses
- Teams running role-based or departmental addresses that need to fan out to multiple destination mailboxes
- Anyone who has been bitten by a free or consumer-grade forwarding service going down without notice, silently dropping mail, or getting blocked at the destination
We are not the right answer if
You need full Workspace or M365 mailbox features: sending from the address, calendar, drives, full collaboration. Forwarding is the wrong primitive. Look at Tenant Migration into the platform you actually want.
You specifically need lifetime alumni email at university scale. See Alumni Forwarding, which is the same forwarding architecture priced and packaged for higher-education use cases at lifetime tenure.
You only need consumer-grade forwarding for one personal domain and you are comfortable with the failure modes that come with cheap forwarders. The simpler consumer services may fit your needs at a lower price point. Email Forwarding is built for the cases where reliability, authentication, and a real support channel actually justify the spend.
A real expert, same day
When you contact us about Email Forwarding, the person on the call is the kind of expert who has actually configured forwarding at scale and debugged the authentication edge cases that the cheap forwarders pretend do not exist. We tell you the costs, the deployment, what your destination mailboxes will see, and what to expect when a vendor changes their includes.
Setup is direct rather than self-serve, because forwarding is the kind of product where getting the routing rules and authentication posture right the first time is worth a short conversation. Reference calls with existing Email Forwarding customers are available on request.
Talk to an expert about your forwarding setup
Same-day response. Real expert on the call. We tell you the costs, the deployment, and how the rules will behave once mail is in flight.