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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…
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.
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One other thing... before users sign up, perhaps you could tell them what will happen to their data if you are ever served by Law Enforcement with a Warrant to give them some user's data... If the answer is that you're going to give your users' data to Law Enforcement (the right answer, as far as I know), then your "private" / "privacy protecting" service -- really wasn't all that "private" / "privacy protecting", no…
Thanks for your suggestions, I agree. In the privacy policy on the site I do state that "information will not be provided under any circumstances to any parties other than when compelled by law." Logs are rotated daily and deleted after 7 days. I'll do some more research on the legal issues you've mentioned above too.
But then one day, you might get that one user, that one user, that just abuses all of that, and causes nightmarish legal problems...
So forewarned is forearmed, as they say...
Also, I would point out that your service is the only way to truly manage rogue emailers that don't respect unsubscribe requests. In other words, it has a very legitimate/lawful purpose other than mere privacy.
While rogue emailers might not exist so much in the U.S. due to laws, the rest of the world is open game -- there is no way (short of using your service!) to manage them appropriately.
If you should ever go to Court, that should be at least one of your arguments... basically ask the court/jury, "OK, well if a recipients email address can't be anonymized, then how else does someone manage spammers from other countries that get their real email address and keep mailing them from different addresses (and with different content) such that it bypasses their spam filter?" Simple answer: They can't! No one can! Done!
Disposable email addresses (for the recipient, when subscribing to various things on the Internet) are the only solution.
See, that's your legitimate/lawful purpose...
Anyway, wishing you luck!
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 agree. Why does everything ask for phone numbers these days? What's next, a picture of my government ID?
Hi 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…
Hi 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…
Have you included ARC support for forwarded email? This is pretty important for not getting blocked as spam when there's strict DMARC enforcement while also not getting your "friendly-from" blacklisted as a spammer.
Congrats 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... :)
https://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mai...
I see some mention of a Tailwind template for the landing page, but how did you do the secondary pages and the admin interface? The blog?
Also, I see some mention of Vue. Did you do the admin interface differently than the main site?
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?