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I've eventually settled on using fastmail and their masked email feature which can create addresses on my own domain for this. I love DDG and appreciate anyone

I've eventually settled on using fastmail and their masked email feature which can create addresses on my own domain for this. I love DDG and appreciate anyone helping in this space to make email more manageable but I assume these addresses will be quickly blocked from many services just like the firefox relay addresses are. I wish there was a way for these relay services to be effective since they are much, much easier to get someone to use than telling them to just up and move from gmail to fastmail.

cscheid 4y ago
(I've been a happy paying customer of Fastmail for _years_ and I didn't know about masked email. Thank you!)
- tuckerman 4y ago
  Just in case you happen to be a 1Password user as well, there is an integration where they can auto-generate masked emails for you: https://support.1password.com/fastmail/ https://support.1password.com/fastmail/ It makes it very convenient!
  - alexchro93 4y ago
    Auto-generated masked emails using Fastmail and 1Password has worked very well for me when I'm using Firefox, with the 1Password extension installed, on my laptop. I can't for the life of me, however, figure out how to get 1Password to auto-gen a masked email from their iPhone app or desktop app. Is this possible?
  - someotherperson 4y ago
    Would love to see a Bitwarden implementation of this
- muhammadusman 4y ago
  You can also use a custom domain (and/or anything else Fastmail lets you choose), this way you can put all the randomly generated emails coming to you in a single folder (as a rule).
drchiu 4y ago
I've heard of fastmail in years past. Your comment got me curious again about it. How's the deliverability of their service? I guess with anything "email related", the hardest part is making sure that the emails I send actually ends up where I intend to go. (Goes without saying, outbound emails are NOT spam but legitimate emails.)
- tuckerman 4y ago
  I’ve never had any deliverability issues with Fastmail and am happy with their uptime. I originally used google apps (aka gsuite/workspaces these days) but had enough headaches using it for personal email that I switched and the quality of service feels the same to me.
- cxr 4y ago
  I was a paid Fastmail user for something like 3 or 4 years, largely as a consequence of the good standing they seemed to have among the audience on HN. Deliverability (and uptime) with Fastmail is excellent. However, during that time I filed two support tickets and neither left me feeling particularly warm and fuzzy about the faces behind the business that I was pledging my annual subscription to. The response in the latter instance in fact was so bad that it's what motivated me to look elsewhere rather than renew. I was prepared to pay more just to know that I wasn't doing business with bullies/jerks. I ended up going with a smaller provider. Without checking, my annual expenses are actually around half as much, IIRC.
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    Are you worried that a smaller provider may be less reliable in the long run, or you are already prepared to just switch your domain again if it becomes an issue? If you are ok sharing it, what is the provider? I really wanted to switch to Fastmail a few years back but 1) its registration page was intermittently down for me and 2) when I caught it during uptime, it sent me to phone SMS verification which I found invasive given it is a paid service. I was ready to give it a chance anyway, but no SMS got delivered to me in the end.
kmfrk 4y ago
Fastmail is awesome. I'd combine DDG Email with their Masked Email in the cases where you want to strip image tracking and opaque tracking urls from your links.
milkoolong 4y ago
I use tutanota and the alias works. But didn't know masked emails were offered by services like fastmail!
snowl 4y ago
You can also use migadu which is a lot cheaper :)
- benhurmarcel 4y ago
  Many Fastmail customers pay them in large part for the web interface.

cscheid 4y ago

(I've been a happy paying customer of Fastmail for _years_ and I didn't know about masked email. Thank you!)

tuckerman 4y ago
Just in case you happen to be a 1Password user as well, there is an integration where they can auto-generate masked emails for you: https://support.1password.com/fastmail/ https://support.1password.com/fastmail/ It makes it very convenient!
- alexchro93 4y ago
  Auto-generated masked emails using Fastmail and 1Password has worked very well for me when I'm using Firefox, with the 1Password extension installed, on my laptop. I can't for the life of me, however, figure out how to get 1Password to auto-gen a masked email from their iPhone app or desktop app. Is this possible?
- someotherperson 4y ago
  Would love to see a Bitwarden implementation of this
muhammadusman 4y ago
You can also use a custom domain (and/or anything else Fastmail lets you choose), this way you can put all the randomly generated emails coming to you in a single folder (as a rule).

drchiu 4y ago

I've heard of fastmail in years past. Your comment got me curious again about it. How's the deliverability of their service? I guess with anything "email related", the hardest part is making sure that the emails I send actually ends up where I intend to go. (Goes without saying, outbound emails are NOT spam but legitimate emails.)

tuckerman 4y ago
I’ve never had any deliverability issues with Fastmail and am happy with their uptime. I originally used google apps (aka gsuite/workspaces these days) but had enough headaches using it for personal email that I switched and the quality of service feels the same to me.
cxr 4y ago
I was a paid Fastmail user for something like 3 or 4 years, largely as a consequence of the good standing they seemed to have among the audience on HN. Deliverability (and uptime) with Fastmail is excellent. However, during that time I filed two support tickets and neither left me feeling particularly warm and fuzzy about the faces behind the business that I was pledging my annual subscription to. The response in the latter instance in fact was so bad that it's what motivated me to look elsewhere rather than renew. I was prepared to pay more just to know that I wasn't doing business with bullies/jerks. I ended up going with a smaller provider. Without checking, my annual expenses are actually around half as much, IIRC.
- throwaway290 4y ago
  Are you worried that a smaller provider may be less reliable in the long run, or you are already prepared to just switch your domain again if it becomes an issue? If you are ok sharing it, what is the provider? I really wanted to switch to Fastmail a few years back but 1) its registration page was intermittently down for me and 2) when I caught it during uptime, it sent me to phone SMS verification which I found invasive given it is a paid service. I was ready to give it a chance anyway, but no SMS got delivered to me in the end.

kmfrk 4y ago

Fastmail is awesome. I'd combine DDG Email with their Masked Email in the cases where you want to strip image tracking and opaque tracking urls from your links.

milkoolong 4y ago

I use tutanota and the alias works. But didn't know masked emails were offered by services like fastmail!

snowl 4y ago

You can also use migadu which is a lot cheaper :)

benhurmarcel 4y ago
Many Fastmail customers pay them in large part for the web interface.