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The Mail.sb Forum is Live at forum.mail.sb

2026-04-25 14:00:00 · 2 Views · Edited at 2026-04-26 20:23:22

The Mail.sb Forum is Live at forum.mail.sb

A forum is now running at forum.mail.sb. It's a place to ask questions, swap setup tips, follow announcements, and request features — without having to pretend a contact form is a community.

The forum is public-readable. To post, sign in with your existing Mail.sb account.

What's there at launch

Five categories, lightly opinionated:

  • Announcements — admin posts only.
  • General Discussion — anything Mail.sb-adjacent.
  • Help & Support — questions, bug reports, "is this normal?"
  • BYOD — for people running their own domain on Mail.sb. Setup tips, DNS pain, revenue-share questions.
  • Feature Requests — things you wish Mail.sb did. They get read.

Posting features:

  • Markdown bodies — bold, italic, code, blockquotes, lists, links, headings up to ###. Raw HTML is escaped, so paste safely.
  • A Quote button on every post that drops a markdown blockquote with author attribution into the reply box. Stack multiple quotes when a thread is sprawling.
  • 👍 reactions on threads and replies.
  • 15-minute edit window on your own posts; after that, content is frozen, and a soft-delete leaves a tombstone instead of vanishing.
  • Custom nicknames at /forum/settings (3–40 characters, unique forum-wide). The default is an auto-generated user-XXXXXXXX so the local-part of your email isn't exposed unless you want it to be.
  • Privacy toggles: hide your full email on your profile, opt out of reply notifications.

Reading features:

  • Full-text search across thread titles, bodies, and replies.
  • RSS at /forum/rss and per-category at /forum/c/{slug}/rss.
  • /forum/me — every thread, reply, and like attached to your account, in one view.
  • Threads inactive for 180 days auto-lock to keep necro-posting from cluttering the active list. Pinned threads are exempt.
  • Mobile-friendly responsive layout.

Author display:

  • PLATINUM, GOLD, and SILVER badges for the holders of 1-, 2-, and 3-character @mail.sb addresses, respectively.
  • A BYOD chip for anyone running an active Bring-Your-Own-Domain. The chip renders in front of the thread title so you can spot operator-side advice at a glance.
  • An ADMIN chip for staff.

Email notifications fire when someone replies in a thread you started or replied to, throttled to one email per thread per 30 minutes so a busy thread doesn't fill your inbox. Reports and flags route to a moderation queue. Posting is rate-limited; new accounts throttle harder.

How to sign in

Click Sign in on the forum and you'll bounce to i.mail.sb/login — the same login page used by the rest of the Mail.sb account surfaces. If you're already signed in at i.mail.sb in this browser, the round-trip is invisible: forum.mail.sb sees the same session and drops you back on the page you came from. The session cookie is shared across the mail.sb subdomains, so signing in once covers all of them.

Browsing is open to everyone; posting needs a Mail.sb mailbox.

What we're hoping you'll do with it

A few specific invitations:

  • If you keep emailing support with the same question, post it once in Help & Support instead. Other people will find your thread before they ask.
  • If you run a BYOD domain — public or private — drop your DNS-pain stories in the BYOD category. Cloudflare gotchas, registrar-specific quirks, MX/SPF/DKIM oddities. The next operator will thank you.
  • If there's something Mail.sb doesn't do that you wish it did, post it in Feature Requests. Concrete trumps abstract: "I want X because Y" is what's actually actionable.
  • If you're new, introduce yourself in General Discussion. Tell us what brought you here.

What's not there yet

Setting expectations on the gaps: no file uploads, no in-forum direct messages, no real-time push. Email notifications and RSS are the way to keep up between visits. The smaller working forum gets to ship now; the bigger half-working one was the alternative.

If those gaps matter to you, post in Feature Requests. Demand drives priority.

Come on over

Visit forum.mail.sb and start a thread. If you're not sure where to begin, introduce yourself in General Discussion. The forum is more useful with you in it.

— The Mail.sb Team

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