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Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#22Hi 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…
Nice, looks good. Can you comment on what logs you keep and how much of users communications you're privy to? Is everything e2e encrypted?
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#23Congrats willbrowning, this looks lovely! I've been using Mailinator for this sort of thing but I'm finding most of their domains have been increasingly blacklisted on many lead capture forms. And their paid plan that allows custom domains is not priced for this kind of use case. (Frankly I'm worried your pricing is too low.) Looks like it's time to go dust off one of those domains I've been sitting on... :)
Me too, I think I need to take advantage of the custom domain feature, too :)
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#24This looks great! The only note would be pricing? Margins look too low for the tech product? You need to sustainably acquire and maintain a very large user base in order to make it work, the larger the base the more expensive maintenance will be, can potentially be dangerous. Let me know if I'm missing something.
Thanks, to be honest the expenses for the service are quite low. It is just the server and domain costs at the moment and of course my time.
You're right as it scales I may need to upgrade the server etc. but I think it will cover its expenses quite easily.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#25Great product and clear marketing website. I particularly like how focused the product is. One thing that really stands out for me is the detail and effort you've put in to the help and privacy documents. Good job!
Thank you! The help centre is still a real work in progress, I have a load more help articles I need to add there.
I based the help centre on Mullvad's as I really love how simple and easy to navigate their website is!
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
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#27I saw this in WIP. Looks good!
Is WIP https://wip.chat/ ? First I have heard of it. Are there other well-known communities doing this sort of thing?
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#28Hi 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…
Nice, looks good. Can you comment on what logs you keep and how much of users communications you're privy to? Is everything e2e encrypted?
Cheers! Nginx access and error logs are kept which do record IP addresses. Default log settings are used for Postfix. The logs are rotated daily using logrotate and retained for 7 days, old log files are deleted.
Log files are only ever used to diagnose any errors/bugs.
Emails received are not e2e encrypted unless they have already been encrypted before arriving to the server.
Users can add their own PGP key to the site for each of their recipients and then the server will encrypt all forwarded emails with it.
Emails received are immediately piped through to the Laravel application by Postfix.