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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 Ringz »

CaptainNegative wrote: post #13
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…

Theoretical yes. But never had that. It is more likely that generic, non existant emails like info@domain.com, admin@domain.com, etc. will be generated if you have a domain with a public website.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Ringz wrote: post #57
subract wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But only for 30 aliases for 4$/month.

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Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by erinnh »

Ringz wrote: post #58
erinnh wrote: post #11

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

You can get a complete web server with a domain for less than SimpleLogin charges for that service.

I can do a lot myself. Or pay somebody less than a meal costs to do it for me and not have to worry about my emails.

Re: How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator

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Post by m-p-3 »

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.

Firefox Relay Premium lets you do it

https://relay.firefox.com/faq/#:~:text=can%20i%20reply%20to%...

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