Show HN: Maskmail – anonymous email address service
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#2Nice idea, but I suspect if it gets any traction, many services will just block maskmail addresses. That's why mailinator uses 100s of different domains and makes it really hard to get a list of all of them.
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#3Great landingpage dude! Was building something like that a while ago for myself until I realized, I'd just use the email+something@gmail.com feature.
But anyways, great idea! Wish you all the success or at least some decent side money.
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#4Nice idea, but I suspect if it gets any traction, many services will just block maskmail addresses. That's why mailinator uses 100s of different domains and makes it really hard to get a list of all of them.
That's a good point. I'd let users pay for using their own domains.
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#5I think it is a good way to only register in sites.
For collaborating is not good, because "reply-to" header is set to the real sender.
This a only one way to `mask` email.
Answering thought masked mail is not possible.
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#6Looks like Trashmail but more $
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#7Why not just append a unique marker to your mail address? Some services support this.
For gmail i believe you can use "+" as the separator:
I.e. your email address is victim8384@gmail.com and you want to give your email address to a party called "spammer", you give them
victim8384+spammer@gmail.com instead.
Once you start receiving spam to that address, you block it.
Re: Show HN: Maskmail – anonymous email address service
#8Why not just append a unique marker to your mail address? Some services support this. For gmail i believe you can use "+" as the separator: I.e. your email address is victim8384@gmail.com and you want to give your email address to a party called "spammer", you give them victim8384+spammer@gmail.com instead. Once you start receiving spam to that address, you block it.
Most spammers know about that trick, and their software automatically strips the + and anything after it. Their software has been doing that for about 20 years already, sadly. The + trick really only works with people you trust already. Also, + addressing is in the RFC, so pretty much every mail server supports it.
Gmail also added . (dot) as a non-counted character, so you can put as many of those as you want into the user field, but most spam software is catching onto that too.
Re: Show HN: Maskmail – anonymous email address service
#9Why not just append a unique marker to your mail address? Some services support this. For gmail i believe you can use "+" as the separator: I.e. your email address is victim8384@gmail.com and you want to give your email address to a party called "spammer", you give them victim8384+spammer@gmail.com instead. Once you start receiving spam to that address, you block it.
As a spammer, wouldn't it be trivial to just run a regex on email lists looking for that pattern and then harvesting the results? Or is this like the old joke where you don't have to outrun the bear, just your friend?
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#10Nice idea, but I suspect if it gets any traction, many services will just block maskmail addresses. That's why mailinator uses 100s of different domains and makes it really hard to get a list of all of them.
That's a good point. I'd let users pay for using their own domains.
That could be interesting, but then what do they need you for? I can already do that with gmail. I just set up a domain on google apps and then tell it to deliver any email address to my main email. In fact I do that already (see my profile).