How to forward catch-all email after canceling Google Apps subscription

I am doing some digital house cleaning and I’ve wanted to cancel a Google apps business account for a while now but the ease of using the catch all domain names has been great and I didn’t want to give that up. Plus the interface for Gmail isn’t that bad. 

I know there are paid services out there that offer similar functionality and I was ready to buy one until I came across this!

Enter https://forwardemail.net/ 

It’s an open source and free email forwarding service that can handle catch all addresses. Setup is simple. Add some MX records, then add a TXT record with a forwarding address. This does make your forwarding address public but since I use Hey I have pretty good control on who is allowed to email me thanks to The Screener.

Just in case, I did change the few accounts still using those custom domains, but I’ve tested it and so far within about 20 minutes things seem to be propagating nicely. I’ll be keeping an eye on it over the next few weeks but an hour in and I’m pretty happy!

Check it out!