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

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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?

As I mentioned in another comment the only true solution to that problem is to use your own domain name. I will also be adding more generic domains to use in the future for users to choose from.

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

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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?

If you successfully manage to establish this, then you'll ruin the point of asking for SMS as an antispam measure, and eventually providers will move to something more intrusive.

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

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post #35

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

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From the FAQ:

> Will people see my real email if I reply to a forwarded one?

> No, your real email will not be shown, the email will look as if it has come from us instead. Just make sure not to include anything that might identify you when composing the reply, i.e. your full name.

How does that work? Do replies actually go through your servers, so that to the outside world they appear to be a proper mail from someone at AnonAddy, with SPF and DKIM all in order?

> How do you prevent spammers?

> The following is in place to help prevent spam: [list of six things it does to fight incoming spam]

Can someone with an AnonAddy address send an outgoing mail to someone who has not previously sent a mail to that AnonAddy address? If so, how will you try to prevent outgoing spam?

If outgoing mail is limited to mail to people who have sent you mail, can you initiate new mail to those people, or must each outgoing mail be in reply to a previous incoming mail?

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

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post #75

From the FAQ: > Will people see my real email if I reply to a forwarded one? > No, your real email will not be shown, the email will look as if it has come from us instead. Just make sure not to include anything that might identify you when composing the reply, i.e. your full name. How does that work? Do replies actually go through your servers, so that to the outside world they appear to be a proper mail from someon…

Yes replies have to be routed through the server in order to remove any trace of the real email address sender. They are currently sent from the domain anonaddy.me.

I will be adding the ability to send replies so that they come from a user's own custom domain soon. This will involve having to add an SPF and DKIM record as well as the MX one.

At the moment it is not possible to initiate an email conversation using an alias although it is a feature I would like to add. I'll have to think about the best ways to prevent spam when adding this.

Yes you could use the same Reply-To: name and email to reply to the same person more than once if you have already received a forwarded email from them.

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

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As a small SAAS owner I’m always very ambivalent about these things. I use throw away email addresses myself but there is nothing more annoying than seeing the same users sign up over and over again for trials.

I think 1/4 of my signups are anonymous accounts.

Only upside is that they are a dead giveaway for non converting users so there’s that.

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