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I agree with most of what you said, but it's even more important to keep access to your email secure than it is to keep the address private, so why should I tru
by tlrobinson 8y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but it's even more important to keep access to your email secure than it is to keep the address private, so why should I trust your relatively unknown service to be the gatekeeper to all my accounts?
I like the idea, but I'd like it better if my existing email provider that I already trust gave me unlimited aliases (long random ones are fine, and I'd even be willing to pay, say $0.10 each). "+" suffixes are a start but they still leak the original email address.
- jf 8y agoFastmail has unlimited aliases, they aren't trivial to set up, but easy enough that I've set up ~10.
- newscracker 8y agoThat’s not true. Fastmail provides about 600 aliases per account, not unlimited. [1] That’s quite high, but it’s also easy to run out of if one hands out aliases on a per-site basis. [1]: https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html
- newscracker 8y agoThere are other privacy respecting email providers who give aliases. Posteo and Mailbox.org provide three aliases to begin with. Additional aliases on Posteo are EUR 0.1 per month. Runbox provides 100 aliases per account, and more can be purchased later. Fastmail provides about 600 aliases per account.
- Scoundreller 8y agoIs there any technical reason for charging per alias? It’s just an extra $0.00000001 database entry per, no?
- 0az 8y agoIt might be to slow alias namespace depletion, and put a cost on potential squatting.
- Scoundreller 8y agoMakes sense on their domain, but if I’m pointing my $1.95/year .info domain at them, I don’t understand the limits.
- wst_ 8y agoPractically, Runbox gives you much more aliases. You can use their own set of domains for each alias which is not small. Can't tell exact number now but around 30 or so. Really handy. There is another problem though. After you've done with many aliases and domains it's getting more and more difficult to maintain. You have to at least vaguely remember which one you have used already. I wish they could introduce a better way of managing aliases.
- sfopdxnonstop 8y agoToo many sites disallow the + thing. It's not a great solution.
- 099812477 8y ago"+" suffixes are generally a waste of time. Most actors will strip everything between + and @ to avoid exposure like this.