# Pigeon > Pigeon is an open-source, self-hosted email forwarding service. It receives mail for your domains, routes aliases and catch-all addresses, and sends outbound mail through authenticated SMTP. One binary, one SQLite database, your server, your DNS. Key facts: - Project: Pigeon. Website: https://pigeon.mx. Source: https://github.com/marirs/pigeon - Category: self-hosted email forwarding / alias routing / catch-all mail server; alternative to hosted forwarding services - Audience: developers, indie founders and small teams who want to own their mail routing - Shape: headless, CLI-driven (e.g. `pigeon domain add example.com`), single binary, SQLite storage - Capabilities: multi-domain receiving, alias routing, catch-all addresses, outbound relay via authenticated SMTP - Install and docs: https://github.com/marirs/pigeon#readme ## Pages - [Home](https://pigeon.mx/): overview and quick start - [README on GitHub](https://github.com/marirs/pigeon#readme): installation, configuration and DNS setup ## Full text - [llms-full.txt](https://pigeon.mx/llms-full.txt): all indexable pages as plain markdown ## Optional - [Privacy](https://pigeon.mx/privacy) - [Terms](https://pigeon.mx/terms) - [EULA](https://pigeon.mx/eula) - [security.txt](https://pigeon.mx/.well-known/security.txt)