The team behind SimpleLogin, an open-source email alias and forwarding service now part of Proton, writes about email, privacy, and authentication.
Commenters recommend SimpleLogin as an email alias service, praising its features such as forwarding logs, while one questions how far any relay can be trusted.
If you give out your professional email publicly like on business cards, expect spam arriving within 2-3 days since people will have you in their contact list and if they're hacked or caught up in chain-mail then you will be BCC'd into that chain mail or otherwise have your email in the hands of spammers.
For personal accounts, I've heard great things about SimpleLogin[0], AnonAddy[1], and Firefox Relay[2] to tackle spam. It's also worth having both a ProtonMail account & a Tutanota account if email privacy is a concern. Many services scan your email to target you with ADs, like Yahoo & Gmail, so avoid those if you can.
[0] https://simplelogin.io/
[1] https://anonaddy.com/
[2] https://relay.firefox.com/
Simple Login (SL), Addy (AD), and DuckDuckGo Email Protection (DDG) are the 3 alias email services I use. Both SL and AD can send and receive. DDG only receives. You can disable the sending direction and simply allow the forward service to run. I believe you will be able to handle this technological challenge. SL and AD are free for 10 aliases, but AD also includes PGP in the free tier. DDG allows for unlimited aliases but does not support PGP; nonetheless, it is free.
How great would it be if you could combine the benefits of such services?
I appreciate your time.
SL: https://simplelogin.io/
AD: https://addy.io/
DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/email/
For me this was from my own frustration: I hate sign-up form and don't want to use "Login with Facebook/Google/..." either as these companies will have even more data about me.
I looked for an alternative to these social login buttons but haven't found any. I decided to quit my job as lead software engineer and created my own company that offers a social login solution that protects user identity [1].
The previous startup came also from another frustration (maybe because we are frustrated in France all the time ...) so my pattern would be to find something that bothers you (and hopefully others) and solves it.
[1]: https://simplelogin.io
Consider - https://simplelogin.io/ (anonaddy.com is similar) I use it with a custom domain, which in turn is a subdomain of my regular custom domain. i.e. @myname.com is on my main mail service - simplelogin used the @mail.myname.com.
I dont use these services for their 'anonymous' addresses, but for managing using multiple unique addresses. Others have mentioned the apple equivalent.
Unique email address per thing in much the same way as you have unique passwords. Emails forward on to my main address.
i'd incidentally just learned about this a few days ago, posted here (with no traction): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782944 , which in turn links out to https://simplelogin.io/blog/simplelogin-join-proton/
they have a limited free tier and a paid tier. i felt a little uneasy about the emails seemingly going through another set of servers (in plaintext?) for the filtering so i didn't sign up, but would love to hear other perspectives.
SimpleLogin [1] already does that and their aliases are more powerful. It's also open-source [2], can be self-hosted, and covers almost all platforms.
The Firefox relay seems to need SocketLabs [3], a paying and closed-source service. Haven't got my invite code yet but I would not bet on this Firefox service.
[1] https://simplelogin.io
[2] https://github.com/simple-login/app
[3] https://www.socketlabs.com/