I use Proton Mail, which lets you make ‘aliases’, which you can use for different sites. The alias forward staright to your main (or a nominated) email.
You can use https://simplelogin.io/ to do the same, and I’m sure there are similar services around.
E.g. I can’t have feckwhatsapp@feckfacebook.com as my WhatsApp email, and it would forward to whatever account I normally use.
I do this for pretty much everything on line, so they all have their own bespoke email for me.
Would you say Proton Mail’s aliases are better in some way than Firefox Relay? Do you have experience with both to give your impression of which you’d recommend over the other? Or perhaps anyone else would care to weigh in, feel free to do so. Thanks, friends!
Any email service will let you make aliases. If it doesn’t, or if it price-gouges you for how many aliases you can make (which are basically zero cost for them) — find a better email service.
Also, there’s no need to use a 3rd-party alias service unless the address you’re protecting cannot be used on an email service, like if it’s a gmail address for example so you’re stuck with gmail. But even so you can buy a domain, forward your Gmail address to it, and start enjoying aliases and all kinds of cool features.
Cool. I’m fine with using a 3rd party tool though. As a Linux user I’m quite used to having separate tools that do a single job well. 😊
But if Proton Mail already comes with aliasing, that would be a good alternative as I already have an address there. Just not a paying customer yet.
Trying to separate myself from Google a little bit as of late, so I’m looking for alternatives, but nothing too obscure and no self-hosting yet. I’d love a complete package like Google offers, kind of like Proton does.
What will be very hard for me to shake off is Google Drive and Google Documents (Sheets, Docs, etc). Very useful services that do their stuff well. Unfortunately. And very integrated into the only phones I enjoy using – Pixel phones. 😑
Proton doesn’t offer its own aliases, they use a third party service as well. It would basically be very similar to what you already get from Relay.
Have a look at Mailbox.org if you’re looking for integrated services, they offer packages with more than just email. It’s a long-running German service.
Please be wary of “encrypted” mail services, they make it fairly hard to migrate away from them later, if you need to. You need special tools to get your mail out of them, and those tools are at their whim.
Proton doesn’t offer its own aliases, they use a third party service as well. It would basically be very similar to what you already get from Relay.
Ah. By this, you mean they don’t offer aliases that are under their own domain? Seems like a good thing to me, honestly.
Have a look at Mailbox.org if you’re looking for integrated services, they offer packages with more than just email. It’s a long-running German service.
Thanks for the tip!
Please be wary of “encrypted” mail services, they make it fairly hard to migrate away from them later, if you need to. You need special tools to get your mail out of them, and those tools are at their whim.
My understanding is that mailbox.org is one of these services? But you still recommend them? 🙂
My understanding is that mailbox.org is one of these services? But you still recommend them?
They just offer normal email features (TLS connections, PGP support, 2FA for webmail).
An “encrypted” service encrypts the messages at rest (on their server storage) but that makes it incompatible with normal email protocols which means you have to use their protocols and their apps to access it. Proton offers an adapter that allows you to use normal protocols (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) but it’s only for PC, and if they ever discontinue that your email becomes captive.
how?
I use Proton Mail, which lets you make ‘aliases’, which you can use for different sites. The alias forward staright to your main (or a nominated) email.
You can use https://simplelogin.io/ to do the same, and I’m sure there are similar services around.
E.g. I can’t have feckwhatsapp@feckfacebook.com as my WhatsApp email, and it would forward to whatever account I normally use.
I do this for pretty much everything on line, so they all have their own bespoke email for me.
Would you say Proton Mail’s aliases are better in some way than Firefox Relay? Do you have experience with both to give your impression of which you’d recommend over the other? Or perhaps anyone else would care to weigh in, feel free to do so. Thanks, friends!
I don’t, I’m afraid. But I can say that creating and managing them through protons password manager is a breeze.
Any email service will let you make aliases. If it doesn’t, or if it price-gouges you for how many aliases you can make (which are basically zero cost for them) — find a better email service.
Also, there’s no need to use a 3rd-party alias service unless the address you’re protecting cannot be used on an email service, like if it’s a gmail address for example so you’re stuck with gmail. But even so you can buy a domain, forward your Gmail address to it, and start enjoying aliases and all kinds of cool features.
Look into services like MXroute or Migadu.
Cool. I’m fine with using a 3rd party tool though. As a Linux user I’m quite used to having separate tools that do a single job well. 😊
But if Proton Mail already comes with aliasing, that would be a good alternative as I already have an address there. Just not a paying customer yet.
Trying to separate myself from Google a little bit as of late, so I’m looking for alternatives, but nothing too obscure and no self-hosting yet. I’d love a complete package like Google offers, kind of like Proton does.
What will be very hard for me to shake off is Google Drive and Google Documents (Sheets, Docs, etc). Very useful services that do their stuff well. Unfortunately. And very integrated into the only phones I enjoy using – Pixel phones. 😑
Proton doesn’t offer its own aliases, they use a third party service as well. It would basically be very similar to what you already get from Relay.
Have a look at Mailbox.org if you’re looking for integrated services, they offer packages with more than just email. It’s a long-running German service.
Please be wary of “encrypted” mail services, they make it fairly hard to migrate away from them later, if you need to. You need special tools to get your mail out of them, and those tools are at their whim.
Ah. By this, you mean they don’t offer aliases that are under their own domain? Seems like a good thing to me, honestly.
Thanks for the tip!
My understanding is that mailbox.org is one of these services? But you still recommend them? 🙂
They just offer normal email features (TLS connections, PGP support, 2FA for webmail).
An “encrypted” service encrypts the messages at rest (on their server storage) but that makes it incompatible with normal email protocols which means you have to use their protocols and their apps to access it. Proton offers an adapter that allows you to use normal protocols (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) but it’s only for PC, and if they ever discontinue that your email becomes captive.
Oh I see what you mean now. Thanks!
But by captive, you mean inaccessible by any other means than their own interface, right?