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Post Mortem: Spam campaign overloaded ImprovMX Servers
There was delayed delivery for ~5 hours, due to a coordinated spam campaign that flooded ImprovMX customer aliases with phishing emails from dozens of disposable domains.
New Feature: Usage Dashboard
We are excited to announce that ImprovMX now has a Usage Dashboard, a dedicated page where you can see how many emails you have received and sent.
Use Claude Code With the ImprovMX CLI to Manage Email Forwarding
The ImprovMX CLI was built to work with AI coding agents. Here's how to use it with Claude Code to manage email forwarding from natural language.
Post Mortem: API Downtime
This is the postmortem for the incident on 2026-03-06, where we had a brief period of API downtime.
How to setup a Google Sheets that syncs your aliases & domains to ImprovMX
This guide shows how to sync a Google Sheet with ImprovMX so that each edited row creates or updates a domain and its aliases via the ImprovMX API.
Manage Multiple Domain Emails from One Gmail
Manage all your domain emails from one Gmail inbox with ImprovMX. Create multiple aliases, send and receive professionally, and stay organized with labels.
Share Inbox Access Without Sharing Your Password: How ImprovMX Makes It Easy
Managing email access across a team can be tricky especially when security is a priority. That's where ImprovMX's multiple destination forwarding comes in.
New Feature: Passkeys
We believe that Passkeys are a key part of the future of account security. For this reason, we're thrilled to announce that ImprovMX now supports Passkeys.
Post Mortem: Slow SQL Queries and Missing SQL Indexes
This is the postmortem for the incident on 2025-10-08, where we had slow SQL queries due to missing SQL indexes.
Post Mortem: SQL Servers Overloaded
A post mortem of our production incident on 2025-10-05, where SQL servers were overloaded impacting deliveries and API requests.
Post Mortem: Emails to hostedemail.com Fail, Causing Delivery Queue Backup
A post mortem of our production incident on 2025-10-03, where emails to hostedemail.com begin failing, causing a delivery queue backup due to retries failing.
Post Mortem: Connection Spike leads to cascading SQL Performance Degradation
A post mortem of our production incident on 2025-09-23 that led to delayed email deliveries for several hours.
New Features in 2025
It's been 8 months since the acquisition of ImprovMX, and we've been hard at work improving the product. We're ready to announce some new features that have finally come together.
Taking the Helm: The Next Chapter of ImprovMX
This is Matthew Tse, the excited new owner of ImprovMX! Why I Acquired ImprovMX — over the past decade, I've built a career around Site Reliability Engineering.
ImprovMX has been acquired!
Seven years ago, we bought an unmonetized side project for $5,000. Today, we're thrilled to announce that ImprovMX has been acquired, having grown into a business serving over 200,000 users, and forwarding more than 30 million emails monthly.
Domain usage alerts: Never hit your limit again
We're all about making your email forwarding experience as seamless as possible. That's why we're thrilled to introduce a brand-new feature: Domain usage alerts.
Make your emails stand out with your logo in Gmail
Ever noticed how some emails have the sender's logo right next to them in Gmail? It looks professional, right? Well, guess what? You can have that too — without any complicated BIMI setup.
New feature: Hybrid MX options now available
Remember when rigid email setups limited your options? ImprovMX is all about giving you the freedom to make your email work for you. Our newest feature, hybrid MX options, lets you take full control of your email!
Simplify team communication with multi-recipient email aliases
In today's fast-paced business world, efficient communication is crucial. But managing multiple email threads and keeping everyone informed can be time-consuming and cumbersome. This is where ImprovMX's innovative multi-recipient email alias feature comes in.
Upgrade team collaboration for free: Google Workspace + ImprovMX
Ready to boost your team's collaboration without breaking the bank? Google Workspace Essentials Starter edition offers a fantastic suite of tools completely free for up to 100 users.
Beyond email forwarding: How ImprovMX SMTP enhances your email workflow
In today's digital-first world, email remains a cornerstone of professional communication. However, the challenge isn't just in sending messages, it's ensuring they reflect the professionalism and integrity of your brand.
Navigating Google & Yahoo's 2024 Email Guidelines
With Google and Yahoo's 2024 email guidelines coming into effect on February 1st, email marketers and high-volume senders are now navigating the new landscape. These updates aim to bolster email security and user experience through stringent authentication measures, an easier unsubscribe process, and tighter control over spam rates.
Need a GoDaddy email forwarding alternative? Discover stability with ImprovMX
Facing GoDaddy's Email Forwarding Shutdown? Welcome to Reliable, Long-Term Solutions with ImprovMX. If GoDaddy's recent changes to email forwarding have left you in a lurch, fear not.
Celebrating 200K users!
We did it! Thanks to you, we've just hit a major milestone — 200,000 users have joined us on our journey to simplify email forwarding.