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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
#52One feature I'd love to see is automatic grouping, combined with the functionality you offer already. So for example if you have an email (using a custom domain): email@example.com You obviously will receive emails as you give out your email. Say for example you get emails from the following senders: - mail@google.com - azure@microsoft.com - notice@azure.com - ok@imgur.com - hello@startup.com It would be nice if the…
That's a really good suggestion! I agree it would be great to be able to create a per alias blacklist of senders who the alias will block emails from. That way like you said you don't necessarily have to deactivate the entire alias if you receive a couple of emails from an unexpected source. I'll definitely add this to my to do list, thank you.
No worries!
I believe that you will be better served being more like uBlock Origin and less like traditional email alias services.
Once you implement the above, you could add a rich "rules" API and then you could do all sorts of interesting things:
- Forward emails as "spam" to the anondaddy database
- Don't receive emails marked as "spam" by at least X users using the anondaddy database.
- Queue all mail by [GROUP] and combine and send at the 1st of the month, etc.
- Queue all mail with [SALE] in the title and combine and send at the 1st of the month with subject line [Sales Newsletter].
- Remove all pictures from email before sending
You can seriously make some money off this. Think beyond traditional email aliases and think more about why people use email aliases to begin with - control over what gets in their inbox.
I'd implement what I suggest myself, but you'll quickly see that it's not trivial. I got to the point you're at now pretty quickly (weekend MVP), but implementing these other features becomes more trivial than doing it over an email (though it's not impossible by any means).
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#53Love the idea. However, what happens if the anonymous email forwarding service disappears (e.g. shuts down)? Does it mean users won't be able to access any online service they signed up for with an anonymous email address?
Nevermind, it's all on github and seems pretty well documented. Great work!
Re: 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
#55Love the idea. However, what happens if the anonymous email forwarding service disappears (e.g. shuts down)? Does it mean users won't be able to access any online service they signed up for with an anonymous email address?
Nevermind, it's all on github and seems pretty well documented. Great work!
That won't help though, as emails will still go to the old domain.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#56Each pricing tier lists "everything is free" in the top line. Do you mean, "no usage fees"?
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#57One feature I'd love to see is automatic grouping, combined with the functionality you offer already. So for example if you have an email (using a custom domain): email@example.com You obviously will receive emails as you give out your email. Say for example you get emails from the following senders: - mail@google.com - azure@microsoft.com - notice@azure.com - ok@imgur.com - hello@startup.com It would be nice if the…
https://idbloc.co already supports this, but does not support custom email aliases made up on the fly, only randomly generated aliases.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#58Love the idea. However, what happens if the anonymous email forwarding service disappears (e.g. shuts down)? Does it mean users won't be able to access any online service they signed up for with an anonymous email address?
Thanks, this will always be a concern for these types of services. I will be keeping this service running indefinitely as I use it myself everyday along with friends and family. I originally created the service to solve my own problem.
The best way to mitigate against the risk of a service shutting down is to use your own domain name. That way, by simply changing your MX records to another email provider, you can continue to receive emails as normal.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#59One feature I'd love to see is automatic grouping, combined with the functionality you offer already. So for example if you have an email (using a custom domain): email@example.com You obviously will receive emails as you give out your email. Say for example you get emails from the following senders: - mail@google.com - azure@microsoft.com - notice@azure.com - ok@imgur.com - hello@startup.com It would be nice if the…
https://idbloc.co already supports this, but does not support custom email aliases made up on the fly, only randomly generated aliases.
From the landing page it does not support that functionality. Perhaps you should update it if you does support what I'm describing.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
#60Each pricing tier lists "everything is free" in the top line. Do you mean, "no usage fees"?
It actually says "everything in free" meaning you get everything that is in the free plan plus the rest of the items in the list.
Perhaps I could make this more clear?