Purelymail is a low-cost email hosting provider: it gives you mailboxes for your domain, so you manage sending and receiving directly in Purelymail.
ImprovMX doesn’t provide a mailbox, but advanced forwarding1 for your custom domains to any inbox (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) with the option to send via SMTP.
Choose Purelymail for full email hosting with inboxes you can send/receive from directly with your domain.
Choose ImprovMX for forwarding your custom domain email to inboxes you already use.
Pricing
No free plan, but affordable paid tiers
Email Forwarding
Offers forwarding with advanced features1
Offers forwarding with advanced features
Email Sending
Supports SMTP sending
Supports SMTP sending
Hosted Mailbox
No mailbox, we forward to your existing inbox
Offers a hosted inbox to store your mail
Webhooks
Offers inbound Webhooks
Does not offer Webhooks
API
Offers an API to manage email forwarding and aliases
Lacks a public API for management
Logging/Analytics
Does not offer built-in email logging or analytics
Setup
Setup can be complicated for non-technical users2
Compliance
ImprovMX is GDPR compliant
Not GDPR compliant
2. The docs are fairly dated and poorly structured, making setup more difficult.
Questions? Reach out to us, we'd love to chat about email service providers.
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