How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
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Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#2Huge! Well done to the Bitwarden team for this first class support of digital identity compartmentalization, although a bit more improvement to be made to reduce friction on the user side for plugging in alias providers (pop up to login to retrieve an API token behind the scenes vs the API token copy paste dance, with login creds Bitwarden might be storing already).
Edit: Is there a standard or API spec perhaps across email alias services for generating, listing, managing, and invalidating aliases?
(happy paying bitwarden customer, no other affiliation)
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#3Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#4Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
Here's a fun one: https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/
The more places you use the same email address, the greater your exposure.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#5Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
If you are privacy conscious, yes. Compartmentalizing emails used for services is useful. It also tells you who is selling your information.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#6Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
If you are privacy conscious, yes. Compartmentalizing emails used for services is useful. It also tells you who is selling your information.
Also, when it is clear someone is abusing the email you provided, you can nuke it. Perhaps some functionality to be had here between aliases and haveibeenpwned detecting an alias in a breach, queuing for alias cycling or invalidation with a human approval step.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#7Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
People use password managers so they can conveniently have a single password without a single breach compromising all of their accounts.
This is the same idea but for their email identity.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#8Ah, this is nice. It brings the Apple Hide My Email functionality (though not compatibility) to all platforms, which is something I do desire since using Hide My Email makes non-Apple platforms unusable for logins.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#9It's been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn't just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.
Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
#10It's been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn't just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.
AFAIK Fastmail is the only service that allows you to respond from an arbitrary email address (of course, provided that you prove that you own the domain).
You can do it in Office 365 but it's tedious, you have to add the alias and then you can email from it.