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Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts
- connorpeters 5y agoHacked this together on AWS over the last few weeks, please let me know if you find any bugs or get any value from the project! Also any tips for more clearly communicating how it works and the value it provides would be appreciated, I've found it difficult to explain to some of my less technically inclined friends.
- lsiebert 5y agoWith no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.
- beardyw 5y agoSecond that. Email is insecure, so whose eyes can see it is my first thought.
- connorpeters 5y agoThanks for the comment, currently they're hosted on S3 but I toyed around with the idea of having a downloadable application that syncs the emails to your own device and deletes them from the server. Is that something you'd find valuable for the sake of privacy? I will work to address the TOS soon, good thinking.
- beardyw 5y agoHaving my own domain I tend to just make up email addresses as I need them. Not too anonymous though, given whois. Anonymity has not been a issue for me I suppose.
- dmje 5y agoI'm a happy https://simplelogin.io https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?
- schleck8 5y agoThere is also https://anonaddy.com https://anonaddy.com which is open-source and has a great free plan
- connorpeters 5y agoThanks for the links, wasn't aware of these products until now. Will have to checkout their services more but does seem to be the same in essence.
- nitn 5y agoI use SimpleLogin as well, it's a great solution and it baffles people when I just make up an email address with my domain and give it to them on the go (thanks to catch-all). I have this one thing bothering me. How do we know that SimpleLogin is not making a copy of the email? Do we simply trust SL not to do that or do we have a way to verify it?
- kseistrup 5y agoThere's also DuckDuckGo Email, if you have a DDG account: https://duckduckgo.com/email/ https://duckduckgo.com/email/
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- tgamma 5y agoNice project! But I would be a little concerned not to be able to bring my own domain name. I would not want to update all my accounts where I have used the alias in case your project stops working some day.
- connorpeters 5y agoThanks! That is a very reasonable concern, hopefully won't be an issue but you never know. Perhaps at some point I will add that feature to ensure people don't get locked out in some unforeseen circumstance in the future.
- ev1 5y agoPlease consider a less cool but more neutral domain/TLD.
- connorpeters 5y agoHi thanks for the comment! What do you mean by "more neutral domain"? What is non-neutral about locke.id?
- orliesaurus 5y agoI think the author of the reply means a domain that reads something like, beautifulsunnycloudmail.com - so it looks inconspicuous (or rather unflaggable?) compared to the words "lock" and "id"
- connorpeters 5y agoAh gotcha, good point! Something for me to consider moving forward.
- johnklos 5y agoEmail aliases don't work any longer, since super smart companies like Google and Microsoft will treat any forwarded spam as original spam and will then consider the forwarding server to be a spam server. Not sure that this is actually forwarding, but with no way to find out except using it, I'm just going to guess that it is based on the description on the site.
- connorpeters 5y agoIt's not actually forwarding, it's sending a new email with the same content. I haven't seen any issues with them going to spam but definitely a concern of mine.