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Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

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Post by johnklos »

Email aliases don't work any longer, since super smart companies like Google and Microsoft will treat any forwarded spam as original spam and will then consider the forwarding server to be a spam server.

Not sure that this is actually forwarding, but with no way to find out except using it, I'm just going to guess that it is based on the description on the site.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

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Post by connorpeters »

schleck8 wrote: post #8
dmje wrote: post #4

I'm a happy https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?

There is also https://anonaddy.com which is open-source and has a great free plan

Thanks for the links, wasn't aware of these products until now. Will have to checkout their services more but does seem to be the same in essence.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

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Post by connorpeters »

johnklos wrote: post #11

Email aliases don't work any longer, since super smart companies like Google and Microsoft will treat any forwarded spam as original spam and will then consider the forwarding server to be a spam server. Not sure that this is actually forwarding, but with no way to find out except using it, I'm just going to guess that it is based on the description on the site.

It's not actually forwarding, it's sending a new email with the same content. I haven't seen any issues with them going to spam but definitely a concern of mine.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

#15

Post by connorpeters »

tgamma wrote: post #7

Nice project! But I would be a little concerned not to be able to bring my own domain name. I would not want to update all my accounts where I have used the alias in case your project stops working some day.

Thanks! That is a very reasonable concern, hopefully won't be an issue but you never know. Perhaps at some point I will add that feature to ensure people don't get locked out in some unforeseen circumstance in the future.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

#16

Post by connorpeters »

beardyw wrote: post #6
lsiebert wrote: post #3

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

Second that. Email is insecure, so whose eyes can see it is my first thought.

Thanks for the comment, currently they're hosted on S3 but I toyed around with the idea of having a downloadable application that syncs the emails to your own device and deletes them from the server. Is that something you'd find valuable for the sake of privacy?

I will work to address the TOS soon, good thinking.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

#17

Post by beardyw »

connorpeters wrote: post #16
beardyw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second that. Email is insecure, so whose eyes can see it is my first thought.

Thanks for the comment, currently they're hosted on S3 but I toyed around with the idea of having a downloadable application that syncs the emails to your own device and deletes them from the server. Is that something you'd find valuable for the sake of privacy? I will work to address the TOS soon, good thinking.

Having my own domain I tend to just make up email addresses as I need them. Not too anonymous though, given whois. Anonymity has not been a issue for me I suppose.

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

#19

Post by orliesaurus »

connorpeters wrote: post #12
ev1 wrote: post #9

Please consider a less cool but more neutral domain/TLD.

Hi thanks for the comment! What do you mean by "more neutral domain"? What is non-neutral about locke.id?

I think the author of the reply means a domain that reads something like, beautifulsunnycloudmail.com - so it looks inconspicuous (or rather unflaggable?) compared to the words "lock" and "id"

Re: Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

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Post by connorpeters »

orliesaurus wrote: post #19
connorpeters wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi thanks for the comment! What do you mean by "more neutral domain"? What is non-neutral about locke.id?

I think the author of the reply means a domain that reads something like, beautifulsunnycloudmail.com - so it looks inconspicuous (or rather unflaggable?) compared to the words "lock" and "id"

Ah gotcha, good point! Something for me to consider moving forward.
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