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Always use hide-my-email aliases

Cross-posted from https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1haf5vn/always_use_hidemyemail_aliases/

TL;DR: Make it possible to enforce that your actual email address is always hidden.

Writing an email to a new recipient via ProtonMail without leaking your address, is a rather annoying exercise. First you have to make an alias (either via ProtonPass or directly in SimpleLogin), then you have to make a reverse alias via SimpleLogin or attach it to a contact via ProtonPass, and finally you can send your email.

There should be a button straight in ProtonMail that just says "hide my email address", and then every recipient (including CC and BCC) is turned into a hide-my-email reverse alias (or an existing reverse alias used).

Even better, a setting that always does this.

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  • Lukas Mayer commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone who uses SimpleLogin aliases for everything as well, this would really make my life much easier.

    I would really like my Proton Family members to do that as well, but they have a much lower tolerance of suffering.

  • Surab commented  ·   ·  Report

    Indeed this is another much needed feature to make Proton even more secure.

    I might not want a new alias per contact/recipient since one often emails different contacts in the same email, but I would rather be able to elevate a small number, e.g. 3-5, of my hide-my-email aliases to be always shown as a sender option.

  • MB commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree. Today, everytime I need to hide my email I need to:

    - Stop what I was doing on ProtonMail
    - Open Simple Login
    - Create the reverse alias
    - Copy it and go back to ProtonMail to use it

    Absolutely painful.

  • Jarold commented  ·   ·  Report

    would save me lots of time

  • Rahul commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please proton, please implement this. This is extremely needed. Just for sending a mail, I need to hop between simple login and proton mail. This is annoying. Please make it simple for your users

  • Roe Jogan commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is FAR more important than Proton calendar, drive, wallet etc.!

  • UserVoiceUser666 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I thought it was just me that found this incredibly frustrating, especially when you forget to use a reverse alias on an email and SL blocks it. This would be much preferred over that behavior.

  • TENTIONS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Would love to have this happen.

  • Thomas Campbell commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is one of my biggest frustrations with proton mail/simplelogin. I have to go back and forth between apps to create the reverse-alias.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE, for the love of the universe! PRIORITIZE THIS.

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