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I'm just getting started on something quite similar that will let you create disposable email addresses that forward mail to multiple recipients (for shared hotel/flight bookings, etc.). I see you have this feature to a lesser extent too, which is super cool.
Again, great work and good luck!
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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?
I’m the founder of Unlisted ( https://www.unlistedapp.com ) and this is exactly the problem I was aiming at when building our private number service. 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 sec…
"Anonymous email forwarding" is probably a bad way to describe this service, since it is likely to make many people think (as it made me think) "isn't this just a more efficient tool for sending spam?". What this really is is an easy way of setting up email aliases . I think that should be the tag line.
Yeah but only geeks like us know about alias files
This looks interesting. For now I've been using the + suffix on my G Suite account: name+alias@example.com. The only downside to this is the fact that some websites don't have proper email validation and say that this email address is invalid.
y.ou@gm yo.u@gm you@gm
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> Unfortunately, mail delivery is far, far harder than it should be. However, we still receive spam e-mails to our inboxes.
Anecdotal but I never receive spam in Gmail, neither in my GSuite inbox nor Gmail.
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My mail server got blacklisted because of backscatter. That is where the sender sends spam to an address that doesn't exist on your server, but they also forge the "from" address, so the "this message could not be delivered" response, complete with the spam message, is sent "back" to the forged address (the spammers real target) It took several months or a large payment to the people maintaining the blacklist for my…
Which blacklist was it and how much did they charge? I have always wondered which are more mafia-esque and which less, as they all act so innocent but are also so adamant about hiding their pricing.
The fix is to configure your MTA so that it doesn't send backscatter
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> Unfortunately, mail delivery is far, far harder than it should be. However, we still receive spam e-mails to our inboxes.
Anecdotal but I never receive spam in Gmail, neither in my GSuite inbox nor Gmail.
"Anonymous email forwarding" is probably a bad way to describe this service, since it is likely to make many people think (as it made me think) "isn't this just a more efficient tool for sending spam?". What this really is is an easy way of setting up email aliases . I think that should be the tag line.