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Post Mortems March 29, 2026

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.

Updates March 18, 2026

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.

Updates March 9, 2026

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 Mortems March 6, 2026

Post Mortem: API Downtime

This is the postmortem for the incident on 2026-03-06, where we had a brief period of API downtime.

Tips December 29, 2025

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.

Tips November 24, 2025

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.

Tips November 17, 2025

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.

Updates November 3, 2025

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 Mortems October 8, 2025

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 Mortems October 5, 2025

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 Mortems October 4, 2025

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 Mortems September 24, 2025

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.

Updates September 10, 2025

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.

Updates January 2, 2025

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.

Updates January 2, 2025

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.

Updates July 31, 2024

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.

Tips June 10, 2024

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.

Updates April 22, 2024

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!

Spotlight March 7, 2024

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.

Tips February 12, 2024

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.

Spotlight February 8, 2024

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.

Tips February 6, 2024

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.

Tips February 5, 2024

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.

Updates February 2, 2024

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.