ImprovMX doesn’t host your inbox. We offer advanced1 email forwarding to your existing inbox (Gmail, Outlook, etc.), with the option to send via SMTP.
Fastmail is a paid hosted mailbox service: they provide the inbox, so you receive, read, and send mail in Fastmail.
Your choice largely depends on if you need a hosted inbox or prefer to use your existing inbox.
Customer Support
Live Human & AI Chatbot Support
Email support via ticket submission
Free plan
Free forwarding for one domain. Paid plans for scale.
Paid service only (after 30-day trial)
Mailbox hosting
No mailbox hosting
Inbox app
No apps
Desktop and mobile inbox apps
Setup
Easy inbox creation, but a hassle to migrate
Advanced Forwarding
Webhooks
Inbound emails can fire webhooks requests
No webhook support
Logging/Analytics
No mail log view—troubleshooting is difficult
Compliance
ImprovMX is GDPR compliant
Fastmail is GDPR compliant
1. We offer rules routing, wildcard addresses, multiple recipient destinations, regex aliases and webhooks.
Questions? Reach out to us, we'd love to chat about email service providers.
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