*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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Anonymous commented
Are there any updates on this?
I read somewhere (Reddit I think) that there could be a seperation between protonmail addresses and custom domain addresses so we could have unlimited addresses on our own custom domains. That feature would be really needed! -
John commented
"+" is USELESS!!! do something proton! please!
I need this to move to Proton paid plan, until they don't release this I stay on Hushmail or Fastmail. -
Dustin commented
Spamgourmet is shutting down. Please add a solution for this soon, so I don't have to transition to, and then trust, some other burner forwarding service. Thanks!
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ML commented
Is this actually actively reviewed? Current limit for plus 5 is too low. And price for visionary for 50 aliases is too high. This need not be truly unlimited and daily new limits is okay too. But the limit needs to be higher. + alias is just usable for filtering and does not always work. Even lowish one time fee for new alias would be acceptable for me.
What are actual reasons why this is not implemented? They are not spelled out as far as I could see in comments.
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trymeout commented
I think this is a better solution
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trymeout commented
This is huge for privacy. Humans make mistakes and you have an account with two aliases such as...
cyberguy227@protonmail.com
johndoe@protonmail.comAnd if cyberguy227 is your personal email while johndoe is your work email you do not want to send an email to a coworker with your cyberguy227 by accident because you forgot to change the sender address.
Maybe instead of adding a setting for each contact, instead use contact groups where you can create a group called cyberguy227 and johndoe, and you add contacts to those groups.
This will be possible with the mobile apps and web interface where it will not send if the email is apart of the wrong group. For the bridge however it maybe possible by adding this feature but instead the email can be sent but before it is sent off, ProtonMail servers will check to see if the email contact is dedicated with the sender email alias and if not it will not send the email out and send the email back saying it was rejected.
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AndrewT commented
+1 up!!!
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Heiko commented
I'm still waiting for this feature since the professional plan came up. When I chose to switch to Proton I didn't think this feature could be missing. So till now I have to forward important messages. That's not what I call a business plan!
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Lucas commented
Many websites don't accept email adresses with the + sign. Even Apple has announced a nym server like service. Please save us, Proton Mail Team!
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Anonymous commented
This would still work towards the dream of ultimate privacy for users and would be useful to anyone who needed to hand out a sort of 'false address' to anyone like a loan shark, telemarketer, or generally anyone they wanted to send off their trail in the wrong direction = privacy protection for users.
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Anonymous commented
I wish that there were a slot for email addresses you can designate as a "burnable slot". This would mean that the email address that you assign to this slot can at any time be immediately burned away and a new 'alias' or address created in its place at a moment's notice.
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Anonymous commented
This is how I maintain a spam-free inbox in Hushmail, and the only feature they have that keeps me there. I maintain a paid Protonmail account, but don't use it because I don't feel confident I can keep spam at bay. I have no interest in searching through a spam folder for something valuable that made it in there, it sort of defeats the purpose of that automated spam control... I still have to check it. With Hushmail's "@nym.hushmail.com" alias feature, I give many new services a unique email address. If I ever get spam, I can see which it was sent to, change my email with that provider(s) and make a new alias for them. No more spam. Hushmail is not as private or secure as Protonmail, but I find this system so valuable, I'm not willing to make Protonmail my new permanent email home yet. I sincerely hope this changes.
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Adam commented
I would like to have temporary email address that i can generate from ProtonMail ui and use it for an hour (or 10 minutes). Then the email address is discarded.
This is like 10minutemail but with the results in the protonmail mailbox.
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Casper Jonquil Mad as Hell commented
Duplicate.
Hello,
The use of the "+" plus sign kills it for protonmail alias' on so many email systems. Show your support here:
I post this feature/change request as a fork from this discourse. It's related but deserves the same attention and support.
Please consider passing some of your votes in its direction.
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Casper Jonquil Mad as Hell commented
Hello,
The use of the "+" plus sign kills it for protonmail alias' on so many email systems. Show your support here:
I post this feature/change request as a fork from this discourse. It's related but deserves the same attention and support.
Please consider passing some of your votes in its direction.
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Anonymous commented
Yes
This is a must have feature
Please add it -
Ines commented
fu protonmail
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Anonymous commented
Trust; Protonmail is not listening. The book is closed on this one. Same as the stuffed-up alias using the "+" plus-sign instead of a "." or "-"
Zero intent to fix it.
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Anonymous commented
I second that suggestion.
I'd love to create e-mail addresses such as kxhrqdskmlnwpg@protonmail.com for a registrations at random websites. They don't have to be pretty or short, they just need to be unique for each website.
It would make things way easier and more secure than having something like three e-mail addresses, one private, one semi-anonymous and one anonymous. If you want to prevent spammers, add a limit such as 3 addresses per day.
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L commented