*Unlimited* Disposable Email Aliases
(to vote for unlimited alias, visit https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483/suggestions/45394132)
Startmail explains it perfectly. They offer unlimited disposable aliases, which expire within a given amount of time. They also offer custom aliases which can be saved and used indefinitely.
It is the disposable alias which will help protect privacy, when submiting an email to an untrusted recipient. After all, how much privacy do we have if our fixed emails become the foundation for building and selling our marketing profiles, just as is done by gmail. We limit personal activity virtual trails by disposing of aliases for casual uses. But, unlike custom aliases, which build on our identifiable original email address, disposable aliases divert from our true email identity by utilizing a sub-domain created for this specific purpose, such as: xxx@tda.protonmail.com (tda = temporary disposable alias)
You avoid abuse by limiting disposable alias creation on a daily basis. Perhaps 5 max per day.
Here is Startmail's explanation:
https://support.startmail.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/3/0/aliases
The Blur service (by Abine) also offers a "masked mail" free service. But their service is not encrypted:
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Miki commented
+1!!!
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Claus commented
GREAT SUGGESTION. I believe you could also implement it in the following way. Do not have temporary disposable alias, but give users an x number of really random email addresses per x amount of time.
For instance: hr8s4lgrrg5wngkgl84j8wjk@cloak.protonmail.ch
Nobody will claim such a thing and keeping it linked to the main account shouldn't be so hard.
You could also use something like a sha512(email, creation_date, secret_sauce).
Maybe you could use something like that to create a non permanent email folder, a bit like bitmessage and perhaps more like bitmessage if you would like to use it as an anonymization feature.
In this way you could still get your email indefinitely (nice for accounts), but not have the system clog up with random news letters and such. This would also mean that users will probably have way less email on your systems, saving you cost etc.
Everybody happy!
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nickle commented
Growing pains? Users pay, have demands and expect results......its tough once you are a fee for service. A reply from Protonmail would be appreciated.
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Ines commented
About time for an update Proton support
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Ray Perkinson commented
allow temporary email addresses with a - instead of a +. 2 banks refuse to accept email addresses with a + in them as "valid." Everybody I have an account with has it's own Yahoo disposable address. Having a unique address helps authenticate any email they send me. If the banks believed emails with a + were valid, what you already have would be fine. But the bank sites say the email address username+thebank@protonmail.com is not a valid email address. Yahoo disposables all contain a "-" I've been using them for years. Note my recovery address contains a - here at Protonmail so I know what you send there comes from you not a spoofer. The banks accept them as valid. Can you set it up so users can do the same thing with a - instead of a +? One reason I'm with Protonmail Plus is I don't trust the new owners of Yahoo to continue the disposable address feature. Unless a lot of people have open accounts with a - in them it should be simple. Please respond to my protonmail account. Thanks.
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Skipper commented
If you can't do a job properly don't do it all?
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/11627253-aliases
Under cooked and underdelivered; protonstyle.
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RoughCut commented
This is obviously just too hard to implement. I think all you voters and posters should go and focus on something else or go somewhere else. Protonmail is just not going to deliver.
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Anonymous commented
...and the under review result is? Ignore?
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ZaReXx_ commented
Give the possibility to normal account (free account) to have 2 or 3 alias please
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Eluc commented
I'm looking to have alias that redirect to multiple users (Visionary and Business plans), for example: family@family_name.com redirect to daddy@family_name.com, mummy@family_name.com, kid1@family_name.com, kid2@family_name.com ...
or
support@company.tld, redirect to support_staff1@company.tld, support_staff2@company.tld and support_manager@company.tld ... -
Willy commented
Hellooooo......time for an update thanks Protonmail.
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Mi St commented
after over 100 days of so called "review", it is obvious they cannot or will not implement this feature. At least there has been a pretty thorough discussion of the issue, and I have learned much just reading the debate. It doesn't matter to me as much that they are not implementing it, as that after all this time and the number of votes cast, I have gotten a really negative picture of the management's attitude at protonmail. Nearly 4K votes! And no company reaction? MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW!
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Fritz commented
a blur version with swiss finish would be perfect, one of the best browser apps I ever had, was/is Blur form abine.com but what a pitty that all the datas go to the US…
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Edmund Laugasson commented
Especially important would be that there will be no "on behalf of" entry in header. Usually it means ability to use external SMTP as well per alias. Like GMail does. Certainly it would be great if there could be also possible to use ProtonMail SMTP without "on behalf of" entry in header.
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Edmund Laugasson commented
Not only external aliases but also use encryption keys for them.
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Edmund Laugasson commented
Very much expected also by my side.
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Willy commented
Right! Now flirting with Startmail....
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Anonymous commented
Fastmail has this also! Please add this in.
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Lupe commented
I gots the plus sign rejected by website all the times. So frustrating.
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Willy commented
LUH3417,
Their silence is statement enough.
Interested in starting a GoFundMe campaign to get their attention?
Willy.