Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service

Awesome idea!

I've been doing this exact same thing since march this year with my own domain using MailGun (Free) and custom forwarding rules.

Really amazing to see someone turn it into a product that can easily be set-up by the general folk. (And for a nice price!). Loved your UUID-alias idea.

May I ask however, how do you expect to handle a blacklist of your domains? I've had trouble in the past signing up to some websites that block any sort of custom domains (really bad) in an effort to block throw-away email, what happens if your domain gets blacklisted/categorized as a throwaway email? (Also forwarding to Google and such ends up in "email limbo").

Which is exactly why you use your own domain so that you have the control.

It's pretty much impossible to avoid the issue you described.

When I did an MVP of something similar to this, I encountered the same solution. The only solution really is the following:

- Use a reliable email, e.g. mymail@gmail.

- Encrypt forwarded email and send to mymail@gmail.com. So in this case, spammer@spam.com goes to mymail@gmail.com.

- You then would have another email, realmail@mail.com that would receive email from mymail@gmail.com (you would set up the forward in Google).

- However, mymail@gmail.com would actually send to mailproxy@proxy.com, which would decrypt and forward to realmail@mail.com

TLDR: You need to encrypt the emails, pass through a service that won't be blocked, forward and decrypt to target destination.

Nice! I also plan to add random word aliases soon e.g. yellow.biker57@anonaddy.me etc. just because some people think UUID aliases stick out a bit and look odd.

To be honest the only true solution to that problem is to use your own domain. I will be adding more generic domains to use in the future so hopefully will be able to evade the majority of these blacklists.

Do you have a plan for when the anonaddy.com domain is added to the blacklisted emails? For example, I know on some websites will just straight up reject addresses from Mailinator or Sharklasers. Is there a way to prevent this from happening to you as well?