Choose or create alias when composing or replying to an email
Hi everyone, this one is under consideration, pending anti-spam measures we might need to take.
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Richard commented
This is so important it should have been an option from the beginning of simplelogin. How can it possibly be right to invent an alias for log-in, but not let it be used to send an email to the company in question. Not having this defeats simplelogin's whole raison-d'etre. Do it yesterday
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Dj commented
I'm disappointed that I can't reply using the alias, the email is sent to, per default (like @duck.com, it does, for example). In this state, the feature is unusable, but you actually promote it, and when people use it, they can leak their email address by replying.. wtf!
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Bryan commented
So yeah, it would seem intuitive that one can select a SimpleLogin alias to send from when drafting a new email- without having to sign into SimpleLogin to do anything.
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Daniel commented
hi! any updates? Just came here to check since it's laborious every time I want to email a company using the address they have on file for me, I have to separately login to SimpleLogin, and generate the email address from there first.
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G commented
At least replying to mails using the alias which have come from an alias is required ..... We can right now, but it needs to be one click reply from alias solution
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Glen commented
Fab
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Danny commented
Integrating SL in general to accomplish this would not be a bad option.
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Brian commented
So in new email messages, on the sender email address line, please add a selection/option from the drop-down arrow labeled something like "Use an existing alias." When clicked, this allows you to select any of your existing aliases as the sending email address seen by the recipient.
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Tobias commented
This is the most needed feature for me. Without that a paid subscription doesn't make sense for me.
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Anonymous commented
Please allow emailing from any - possibly confirmed - email address in the from field, without revealing the proton.me address. Allowing people to set the from field freely would be helpful for using email addresses from email forwarding services, such as iki.fi or linux.com.
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K Rasmussen commented
I cannot see the purpose with +alias when it is not posible to send from +alias or add a reply to +alias. All people I know will use the reply button in there mail ciient and not click on the +alias written in an email.
Using +alias can also help feight spam as it easy allow changing your public email without change mail account.
The feature of adding reply to is already listed in user voice:
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mail/suggestions/33602728--reply-to-field-for-outgoing-emails -
Joel commented
I would love to see this feature as well. I receive many pass-through emails on my own domain. It looks unprofessional and weird to have an unrelated email address appear in the From field when replying to emails. In some cases, websites require an email to come from a particular email, which kind of messes up my entire email system.
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Dach commented
If the email composition tool would allow modification of the "from" to include adding an alias, i.e. JonDoe+NewAlias@pm.me, that would be great.
Sometimes contacting a company for the first time demands the creation of an email address with the new email alias since we know they will add the address to their databases. Our controlling the alias also keeps customer service emails tracked properly; tickets are lost when the "+AliasExample" is dropped from addresses.
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SM commented
Guys, please put some priority on this item. Having aliases is a great feature, but limiting the use of them to the way we have right now, makes it almost impossible to be used in a regular basis, or from a mobile device, which is the device mostly used when communicating with others.
Really appreciate a quick action here.
Thanks
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Anonymous commented
Wow... six years and still nothing? This would be really easy to implement (relatively speaking). I would very much like to the ability to send email from an alias. It is frustrating and limiting when I need to email a company and I cannot email them from the email address they have on file. This has caused problems for me and requires stupid work-arounds. Thank you
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heechee commented
It should be possible to choose any From e-mail address, not only for replies (Protonmail should use the incoming mail's recipient address automatically as from-address in replies), but also for sending mails.
Sending should be possible not only from + address extensions, but for custom domains it should be possible from any address, as Protonmail allows us to create a catch-all address.
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t5q commented
I found out a workaround:
from your main account send a message to the + alias you want, for example
From: main@protonmail.com
To: main+alias@protonmail.comWhen that message arrives, hit reply (or reply all), change the To, CC, and BCC fields, change subject and message.
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Michael commented
This is the only thing stopping me from moving and paying for ProtonMail, I don't want to reply with my new, fresh and secure protonmail email address to everyone. I have certain email that I want to reply with that email address and not give them my protonmail email address.
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Ines commented
Yes this makes sense.
I was a bit dissappointed to see the implmentation was done this way (as for the use of "+" which is too frequently blocked on forms).
Yahoo is an example implementation of what I think we are after.
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[Deleted User] commented
it kinda defeats the purpose of having the +alias if you are not able to use it to reply where you used it, example, you want to reply on a customer request ticket on a website you subscribed, their automated system might not recognized your non +alias email if you try to reply within your inbox.