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24 alternatives to Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service

Self-hosted personal email guardian with one-step deployment - fterh/heimdall

Heimdall is a self-managed email alias and forwarding service that users can operate independently. Launched in 2020, it enables people to create and manage email aliases that forward messages to their actual addresses… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Create unlimited email aliases for free. Protect your real email from spam by using a different address for each service. Privacy friendly, anonymous replies.

    2019 · anonaddy.com · its alternatives →

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    AnonAddy▲132

    Open-source anonymous email forwarding. Stop spam.

    2019 · addy.io · its alternatives →

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    Cold email infrastructure + dedicated IP sorted In minutes

    2024 · infraforge.ai · its alternatives →

  4. 4A1

    Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them. My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month. Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Send hundreds of personalized emails with Gmail.

    2019 · mailmeteor.com · its alternatives →

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    Mailforge▲627

    Cold email infrastructure sorted in minutes

    2024 · mailforge.ai · its alternatives →

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    The email warmup tool, upgraded for deliverability.

    Jun 2026 · mailwarm.com · its alternatives →

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    Everything you need to start sending newsletters, drip campaigns, transactional emails. Mailcoach is a fully featured email marketing platform built for growing creators, developers, and businesses.

    2020 · mailcoach.app · its alternatives →

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    High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app. - knadh/listmonk

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted monitoring made simple for SaaS teams.

    Dec 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Listmonk▲320

    Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source email alias. Clean inbox. Custom domain, PGP,...

    2021 · simplelogin.io · its alternatives →

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    Send auto follow-up emails with Gmail

    2022 · mailmeteor.com · its alternatives →

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    ImprovMX▲292

    Free email forwarding

    2019 · improvmx.com · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Posthorn, a self hosted email gateway. One docker container (or Go binary) between every self hosted app on your VPS and your transactional email provider. Set up Posthorn once, point your apps to it, done. I was trying to deploy Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet and found that DO and many different VPS services have started to block the default SMTP ports to try to combat the various types of abuse they get. To actually configure my app, I had to hack together a Postfix relay. In another project, I had a static site which had a contact form, but my free Formspree account was…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Heimdall▲126

    Hey HN, We built Heimdall (heimdallspace.com) because the existing tools for space situational awareness are genuinely painful to use: clunky interfaces, fragmented data sources, slow rendering. The ones that aren't are locked behind enterprise solutions. We thought the foundation of this should be open and accessible. The goal is a satellite observability platform: one place that gives operators complete, real-time insight into their assets and the orbital environment around them. Today's release is the foundation—aggregating and rendering the full public space catalog (30,000+ objects) in…

    Feb 2026 · heimdallspace.com · its alternatives →

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    HappyMail▲201

    Eight years ago, I was job hunting and felt embarrassed by my Gmail address. I tried registering firstname.lastname — taken everywhere. So I thought: "I'm in IT, I'll set up my own domain with my own IMAP/SMTP. How hard could it be?" A lot went wrong. Forgotten renewals. rocky DNS mistakes. I ended migrating toward Google Workspace, but in the end it felt overkill, having a subscription there plus the whole registrar subscription, and the whole GAFAM sticker on it. Moreover, the final price was way too high for me at the time. Six months ago, someone approached me and related to that…

    Jan 2026 · happymail.tech · its alternatives →

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    AliasVault (https://aliasvault.net) is an open-source, self-hostable, end-to-end encrypted password and (email) alias manager that protects your privacy by creating alternative identities, passwords and email addresses for every website you use. Keeping your personal information private. My name is Lanedirt and I’m a software developer with over 15 years of experience and a privacy enthusiast. Since 2013, I've been running a public temporary email service (https://spamok.com), but I wanted to build something more privacy-centric and fully self-hostable. That's why I've…

    2025 · aliasvault.net · its alternatives →

  20. 20AP

    Hey guys, so I've been building my own Gmail for the past few weeks and would like your feedback. Find a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png (Mouse cursor is over the "REPLY" button, to show the hover-effect) The app you see in the screenshot is what I've been using in the past week and it starts to feel better than the gmail interface. Just a quick explanation: - It's conversation-based like Gmail. - Conversations with new emails are on the left. - Conversations may be labeled ... based on predefined filters or manually. - Every conversation stays in the left sidebar until marked…

    2012 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →

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    It's a self-hosted mailbox for all emails coming to your own domains, with Web interface and CLI included. Notes: - all emails share the same inbox, as long as set your DNS correctly - Web client via self-hosted Docker or Cloudflare Pages - need additional access controls, may use Basic Auth or Forward Auth with Cloudflare deployment

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1SecMail▲112

    Free disposable email that actually arrives in real time

    2025 · tmaily.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Observability Platform for MCP Servers & Apps

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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