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How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by erinnh »

OptionOfT wrote: post #10
Ringz wrote: post #9

It'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.

I’ve been doing this with SimpleLogin for years. I’d expect anonaddy to be able to do the same.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by dublinben »

renewiltord wrote: post #8

Ah, 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.

Why would using Apple's Hide My Email functionality make non-Apple platforms unusable for logins? If you're storing these credentials in a cross-platform password manager like Bitwarden, you should be able to enter your (fake) email address and password anywhere to sign in.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by CaptainNegative »

Ringz wrote: post #9

It'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.

In principle, someone seeing heido15wkj6@yourraredomain.com, yua16ooaaj2@yourraredomain.com, and kqoq91inhi4@yourraredomain.com in a dump might be able to infer that all of these belong to the same user with a catchall address (especially if they can verify that the domain is unpopular via dns caching or other tricks). Using a common service adds another partial layer of anonymity between the email addresses, making one harder to track.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by subract »

Ringz wrote: post #9

It'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.

addy.io allows you to send email from any of your aliases. It’s a little clunky, but it’s the sort of thing I do so infrequently I don’t really mind.

https://addy.io/faq/#how-do-i-send-email-from-an-alias

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by niklasmtj »

Oh this is funny to see. I just posted a blog post talking about Email Aliases an hour ago without knowing about the Bitwarden announcement.

I would love to see aliases being promoted more and more by companies. In the end most companies want to get in touch with you via e.g. a newsletter. So why do they need exactly your private email and not just an email alias. In the end they're reaching the same person.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by upon_drumhead »

OptionOfT wrote: post #10
Ringz wrote: post #9

It'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.

Gmail for domains allowed the same, you had to add the alias and then you could email from it.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by rework »

niklasmtj wrote: post #15

Oh this is funny to see. I just posted a blog post talking about Email Aliases an hour ago without knowing about the Bitwarden announcement. I would love to see aliases being promoted more and more by companies. In the end most companies want to get in touch with you via e.g. a newsletter. So why do they need exactly your private email and not just an email alias. In the end they're reaching the same person.

They need the exact email address because:

1) Prevent duplicate account creation

2) Users forget what email they used to signup (this happens ALLLLLL the time with + emails)

3) To sell your data, link you, and spam you.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by joeyhage »

renewiltord wrote: post #8

Ah, 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.

You can create on-demand Hide My Email aliases[1] that deliver to your Apple account email address without using your AppleID to login.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/create-and-manage-hid...

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