*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
It would be great to generate a brand new random email address for every service with which a user signs up. However this would only work if a user is able to reactivate the temporary email address to do password recovery. Otherwise we would need to prevent password loss by reusing passwords, not good.
It would be easy to rediscover which temporary email was used for a service and reactivate it by searching an inbox for the service's "email address verification email" and reading the "to address".
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g pres commented
II think using email alias is a great idea although i think we could improve it more.
Using the + sign is problematic since it allows users to understand your original email.
The sign we should use should be something that is already used in the name of the email.
For example I think dot . is a better sign.
If someone uses the email name.tes@protonmail.com then the third party can't know if name.tes is alias or not -
Jelmer Schreuder commented
Preferably with the option to use an external SMTP server to send it through. This is what's keeping me from fully switching to Protonmail, I'm stuck halfway now.
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Anonymous commented
like 10minutemail.com. That would be cool
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Jor-El commented
My idea is a function that allows you to generate temporary mail addresses that can only receive a certain, freely chosen number of mails. The mails would be forwarded to the ProtonMail address. You would be able to answer to a mail that has been sent to a temporary address. The addressee of your answer would only see the temporary address. It would be possible to change the number of remaining mails.
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Anonymous commented
I think me, or other ProtonMail users wants free Aliases. iCloud for exp, has 3 free Aliases for a free user.
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Anonymous commented
I would like the ability to use different characters for alias separators. I have been using the '-' character instead of the '+' character on my custom domain for years.
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Laurent commented
Wow! An unexpected great news. Just successfully tested it. I was a heavy user of it on gmail.
Will it also work on custom domains ? Or is it dependent on the configuration of my domain ? -
Tom commented
I used ...test+service@protonmail.com & sent to myself as a test but never received it.
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Jonathan commented
Seria genial que se pudiera modificar el alias sin tener que modificar la cuenta,
saludos a los creadores de protonmail
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Baubak Gandomi commented
This is great thank you,
But where can I find the + button? Is it released in the 3.0 Beta yet?
Thanks
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Simon commented
It seems that in settings > Alias, we still do not have the option to add alias as mentionned above.
Is there another information on how to do?
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Tom commented
As of now in settings it only reflects aliases,will the disposable e mail address options be in settings.
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JET commented
Essential!
I have not started using ProtoMail yet because of the lack of flexible aliases. I need to be able to use email addresses to represent different organisations I'm emailing for.
I can't wait for this so that I can dispose of Gmail. -
Tirthankar Bhattacharyya commented
May be there is a thread for this idea. I could not find one. So I am posting it. It will be great to be able to use an external email address for sending mails. Gmail allows this. It can be suitably worded. Gmail says Sending on behalf of. This feature will be of great use.
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Anonymous commented
sorry this is a naive comment
I am told about the choice between .ch and .com
then offered only .com
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Joe Mama commented
Aliases:
1. You should be able to choose whatever alias you want.
2. it should register both .ch and .com addresses (as well as any future tlds).
3. there should only be a limited number of aliases you can register.
4. aliases should be permanently linked to your account.Actual disposable addresses are a BAD idea, IMO, because they promote spamming and possibly could be used for name blocking/squatting unless they are recyclable (which is a very BAD idea)
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Max commented
Yahoo also has a good approach, for years. You create a unique basename that is not related to your email address. Then you can create as many disposable email addresses with a unique keyword each. The result is something like this: basename-tickets@yahoo.com, basename-newsletters@yahoo.com, basename-spam@yahoo.com.
The nice thing about it is that (1) you don't occupy too many ‘unique’ email addresses like an alias would do, (2) you are not giving anything away about your true email address and (3) you can always delete any address and quickly identify spammers if you do this comprehensively. Yahoo also allows you to tag your email addresses and assign a specific folders to which all emails should be delivered.
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Corend commented
I also use the Gmail dynamic aliases as it is also included for my Runbox email account with my domain.
So, if I've firstname.lastname@runbox.com and I send an email to firstname.lastname+Alias@runbox.com it will be directly redirected to firstname.lastname@runbox.com but with the email including the alias in the header, so I'm able to clean this message with filters if they use it for spam purposes. -
Jasmine Lognnes commented
The way sneakemail.com does it makes sure your real email is never revealed, even when replying to emails.
Here is how it works
1. create to generate a random email address and give the a name/label.
2. Give the random email some evil person.
3. When evil person writes to it, Sneakmail sends it to you with a new reply-to email address.
4. When you write to this new reply-to email address, it will be sent to sneakemail, and they know they have given it to you, so they replace your from email address with the one generated in step 1.