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An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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I use this feature extensively. My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).

If Apple would provide an easy and straightforward method of sending emails from that garbled and, to the layperson, "anonymous" adresses all kind of dumb shit would happen. I guess they don't want that kind of publicity, even if they can obviously trace every offender.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

#22

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425

> Apple doesn't read or process any of the content in the email messages that pass through Hide My Email, except to perform standard spam filtering that's required to maintain our status as a trusted email provider. All email messages are deleted from our relay servers after they're delivered to you, usually within seconds.

Unless you can present an evidence, your post is mostly a conspiracy theory.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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I use this feature extensively. My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).

Gmail used to have send-as feature that verified only with your ability to click on the link that you get from google on that inbox.

Technically you can do the same with SES on AWS as well, they verify just a single email address this way (domain is with dns records), and they have SMTP gateways to connect to a mail client .

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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post #10

I don't use Safari but I still use this feature a lot even though I have to do a few extra steps because it does not integrate with anything other than Safari, its that useful for me. Some sites have never worked properly with the email+tag@gmail.com thing and some have even become wise to it and wont accept addresses like that (car dealers are the worst). I hope someday apple allows 3rd party integration with this f…

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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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post #11

I signed up for Comcast Xfinity using a brand new “hide my email” address and three months later I started receiving phishing emails at that address. (I’ve gotten over half a dozen so far). Made me realize that either Comcast was hacked (without disclosing it) or they’re selling people’s emails.

I’ve experienced the same with comcast and have contacted their support. They claim there was no data breach or they aren’t selling emails, but that obviously isn’t the case.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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post #10

I don't use Safari but I still use this feature a lot even though I have to do a few extra steps because it does not integrate with anything other than Safari, its that useful for me. Some sites have never worked properly with the email+tag@gmail.com thing and some have even become wise to it and wont accept addresses like that (car dealers are the worst). I hope someday apple allows 3rd party integration with this f…

One workaround is that gmail ignores dots in the local part too: so you can use unusual punctuation for marketing: e.mail@gmail.com

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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post #10

I don't use Safari but I still use this feature a lot even though I have to do a few extra steps because it does not integrate with anything other than Safari, its that useful for me. Some sites have never worked properly with the email+tag@gmail.com thing and some have even become wise to it and wont accept addresses like that (car dealers are the worst). I hope someday apple allows 3rd party integration with this f…

I don't get the email+tag. Spammers can just drop the plus tag and get your real email address?
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