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> Our system will then silently discard any further emails and you won't be forwarded anything else for that alias. Be careful you don't run into legal issues here. I remember reading somewhere recently that silently dropping emails isn't allowed in some jurisdictions.
Hi all, creator here. I've been working on AnonAddy (short for anonymous email address) for the past few months with the vision of creating a privacy friendly, transparent and easy to use email forwarding service. The web app is built using Laravel, Vue.js and Tailwind CSS. Source code is available on GitHub[1], also mirrored on Gitlab[2]. The server is running Postfix, MariaDB, Nginx and Redis. I know that there are…
> Our system will then silently discard any further emails and you won't be forwarded anything else for that alias. Be careful you don't run into legal issues here. I remember reading somewhere recently that silently dropping emails isn't allowed in some jurisdictions.
Isn't that what spam filters do though? Or is there some technicality since they're technically not silently dropped but instead in a folder that you don't care about.
What this really is is an easy way of setting up email aliases. I think that should be the tag line.
There's a much harder problem, granted, but the world needs a throwaway SMS service. Even Imgur needs a phone to sign up now :( There are already some services like this, however it seems they have a smallish pool of phone numbers. Eventually everyone uses those to sign up, one time, somewhere (like Imgur) and that number is then useless for that site. Is there a better way?
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It really doesn't take much at all to get blacklisted by Gmail or others. Companies like MailChimp have agreements in place with Google. Unfortunately, mail delivery is far, far harder than it should be.
> Unfortunately, mail delivery is far, far harder than it should be. However, we still receive spam e-mails to our inboxes.
There's a much harder problem, granted, but the world needs a throwaway SMS service. Even Imgur needs a phone to sign up now :( There are already some services like this, however it seems they have a smallish pool of phone numbers. Eventually everyone uses those to sign up, one time, somewhere (like Imgur) and that number is then useless for that site. Is there a better way?
Unfortunately today, however, many sites will detect VoIP numbers and refuse to send messages to them. There are two reasons: 1) The app detects that it is not a “real” number and blocks its entry, or 2) the number is accepted but no message is ever received. In the second case, the “call with a code” option does usually work though. The reason is that short code providers negotiate delivery outside of the normal framework that long code (“normal”) numbers use. Most apps like Unlisted are using Twilio as a provider and these agreements just aren’t in place.
I’ve been running Unlisted for over 6 years so have a bit of experience around this space. Am happy to answer any questions!
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I agree there may well be some challenges along the way but I'll do my best to prepare and prevent them. I'm always reading and learning more about the best measures to have in place for the server. Thank you, hopefully I'll be able to stay sane!
Hey mate, it looks polished. I hope it gets traction. As my way to help you, I'll feature it on SaaSHub ( https://www.saashub.com ). If you get it verified, I can promote it on the tribune as well. Good luck!