# Email Forwarding. Mail to your real inbox, without the rough edges. You have a domain. You don't want to host a mailbox for it. You want defined addresses to land in inboxes you already use. The rough edges are real: SPF/DKIM alignment when forwarding, spam filtering before the forward, reliability under load, and a human to reach when something misbehaves. Email Forwarding is the DuoCircle product for the cases where reliability and authentication actually matter. Same SMTP backbone as the rest of routing, since 2014. ## Authentication-aware Spam-filtered ### What it does ## 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. 01 ### Defined aliases, up to 5 destinations each Configure the aliases that should forward and where they should go. Each alias can fan out to up to 5 destinations. No catch-all routing: only addresses you've defined will forward, which keeps your domain from becoming a spam trap and means every forwarded address gets the same authentication and filtering treatment as the rest. 02 ### 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. 03 ### 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. 04 ### 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. 05 ### 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. 06 ### 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. ## Plans and pricing **DuoCircle Email Forwarding starts at $99/year for 5 aliases and scales to $2,499/year for 75,000 aliases.** Per-alias pricing with smooth volume discounts; 9 published tiers. Unlimited message volume per alias, spam filtering on every forwarded message, SOC 2 audited infrastructure at every tier. Risk-free for 14 days; credit card required at checkout. ## Common questions about Email Forwarding pricing How much does DuoCircle Email Forwarding cost? Pricing starts at $99/year for 5 aliases (Lite) and scales to $2,499/year for 75,000 aliases. Per-alias pricing with smooth volume discounts; 9 published tiers between the floor and the cap. What counts as an alias? An alias is a distinct email address being forwarded somewhere. sales@yourdomain.com forwarding to email@yourcorp.freshdesk.com is one alias. Each alias can fan out to up to 5 destinations. Aliases (like sales@ or info@) are different from group mailboxes accessed by multiple people — DuoCircle Email Forwarding sells aliases, not group mailboxes. Can an alias forward to multiple destinations? Yes. Each alias can be configured to forward to up to 5 destinations. For example sales-team@yourdomain.com can fan out to bob@yourdomain.com, jane@yourdomain.com, and rick@yourdomain.com simultaneously. Do you offer catch-all forwarding? No. Catch-all forwarding turns the domain into a spam trap. DuoCircle only forwards mail to aliases you have explicitly defined. The deliberate set keeps the domain reputation clean and the spam filtering meaningful. Is there a free trial? Yes, risk-free for 14 days. Place an order with a credit card and walk away within 14 days for a full refund, or keep the configuration that works. What if I need more than 75,000 aliases? Above 75,000 aliases is custom volume — contact sales for a quote. The published catalog tops out at the 75K tier. ## Who this is for - 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 ## When to look elsewhere **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](/content/email/tenant-migration/index.html) into the platform you actually want. **You specifically need lifetime alumni email at university scale.** See [Alumni Forwarding](/content/email/alumni-forwarding/index.html), 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.