*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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Adam commented
Would like to not have to use anonaddy anymore
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Anonymous commented
Similar to the links provided in the original post, fastmail's catch all Aliasing works well for this https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/aliases.html and https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html . I understand the concerns around catch-alls, but the ability to set specific aliases with regex in the them would be excellent.
Example: alias*@<customdomain>.com as a redirect to a primary address.
Also having normal aliases: <name>@<domain> and having <alias>@<domain> seems like it really should exist without having to set up one of a very limited number of addresses.
Similarly, an NYM like service would also solve the problem much of the time.
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Guy commented
An option to generate a random address (this could be a long address so shouldn't be a worry to waste the email availabilty) similar to aliases. Similar to anonaddy but without having to pass emails through a third party
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william maynard commented
trashmail by Stephan Ferraro is a wonderful service, 2500 alias with al the features you mention, and more. right click context menu in most platform, very cheap. and Wonderfully supported by author.
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Anonymous commented
this is something I can only dream of. No need to use anonaddy ever again
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Anonymous commented
Currently, you can only send from alias addresses by replying to an existing email to that alias. Being able to directly send from an alias would make this feature a lot more useful.
Being able to manually add alias address to Settings > Addresses/Users without it counting towards the total of allowed additional addresses would also be helpful.
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Anonymous commented
+1
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Anonymous commented
I will pay for this feature. get some new domain names for disposable generated emails and that way protonmail.com, protonmail.ch and pm.me can still be official email usernames while another domain names can be used for an disposable email
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chatman commented
I don’t understand where is the problem with e.g. having one slot for changeable, randomly generated address for paid accounts, that can only receive email.
Would be great to be able more securely exchange contact information with friends via chat or pm on social network sites and forums that mishandle data as well as to sign up on such sites. -
rad commented
Disposable addresses - like temp@nym.proton.com - ala Hushmail.
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Ben Buske commented
I know you can create several email addresses but they are permanent and cannot be changed.
Before using protonmail I was subscribed to startmail. It is a great service but it lacks features and I don't like the design. Which is why I moved to Protonmail, which I like more.
However, there is one big feature I miss for this. With startmail you can create a limited amount of permanent aliases like test@use.startmail.com instead of test@startmail.com (the main address).Those permanent aliases can be removed and created as you see fit, but you can only create them once. So if I create test@use.startmail.com and late delete it, then nobody else nor I myself can create the same test@use.startmail.com alias again.
In addition, you can create disposable aliases. They also use the @use.startmail.com domain but they can be set to be valid for as little as 15 minutes to as high to several hours. Then they automatically expire.
This would be something, I would really love to see with protonmail. Many times you need to create an account somewhere or want to try something.
That means, that you will get spam mail every day and many times the unsubscribe link won't work. It is fine with a free mail account. You can just make a new one. But if you pay 150 USD a year, like I do, than I would want to keep my email private and not to be spammed.
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Ines commented
Fix the @#$!Ng "+" sign to a dot or dash for cripes sake. We've only been asking for it, like +4years.
Paid user
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Frederic commented
Dear all,
When shopping on-line, a new proton-email address can be created, but it is a "permanente" email address.
Could this temporary "disposal" email address be automatically deleted according to an "expiration date" selected by the user? Hence, the user could create other "disposal" email address (alike startmail).
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Anonymous commented
This is what SimpleLogin offers which is a email alias service that protect users from email spam from databreaches. I would like to see protonmail offer this even if it is for paid users only. Even if this means protonmail gets a few new domain names such as pmalias.com, protonmailalias.com, pmalias.me, etc and users cannot make accounts using these domain names but can make as many alias accounts as they want with these domain names.
I understand you can already have "aliases" such as 5 email addresses for a paid account or use the "+" but this does not protect protonmail users for email spam if their online accounts get hacked.
So if your protonmail username is john@protonmail.com you can create aliases such as...
facebookfever@pmalias.com
john232@pmalias.comAnd these aliases does not reveal the true owner of these email addresses if the website they have an account on has a databreach.
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Anonymous commented
Me gustaría poder editar el usuario, o que aparezca un alias corto, que sustituya al nombre de usuario en un mail, ; o bien, que el autorelleno te visualice el nombre de usuario largo, para ganar tiempo, gracias. 1 saludo
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febLey commented
The sole reason why I'm not a paying customer, yet.
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BD commented
I would like to strengthen Justin's comment: vote the other one up some more, if you only have votes on this one.
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Security Enthusiast commented
I so agree with this and would pay extra for it.
The way yahoo! has implemented this is actually perfect because:
1) Not only can you reply from the disposable email but you can start an email chain from a disposable email as well.
So if I need to initiate contact through email to support@example.com I never need to reveal my real email address.
When the example company gets hacked and my email address gets sold to spammers on the dark web I just turn off that disposable email address, create a new one and update my details with that 1 compromised company if I still need them.2) It really does mask your real email:
e.g.
Real email = name@yahoo.com
You choose the first part of the alias "e.g."mask" and this can only be chosen once and never be changed.
All disposable emails use this mask as the first part so appear as mask-1234@yahoo.com
There is no way to determine from the stolen info (mask-1234@yahoo.com) that your real email is name@yahoo.com.
The Gmail and ProtonMail way of using the "+" alias doesn't really protect you at all as it contains your real email address.
It is not difficult to post process the stolen database and just filter out the + alias.
e.g.
Real email = name@pm.me
Alias = name+1234@pm.me
Process the data to remove everything between "+" and "@" to convert the stolen email back to name@pm.meUsing the yahoo! way can completely eliminate SPAM forever! The issues with yahoo! are:
1) They have a poor security track record and were themselves hacked twice in short succession
2) They don't support 2FA apps (they use SMS codes which can be circumvented using SIM swapping)
3) You can't turn off their SPAM filter. Relevant because you'll never receive SPAM so will only ever result in false positives.If you combine the yahoo! way of disposable emails with a password manager and strong unique passwords your online security is seriously beefed up and you'll never receive SPAM.
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Security Enthusiast commented
I so agree with this and would pay extra for it.
The way yahoo! has implemented this is actually perfect because:
1) Not only can you reply from the disposable email but you can start an email chain from a disposable email as well.
So if I need to initiate contact through email to support@example.com I never need to reveal my real email address.
When the example company gets hacked and my email address gets sold to spammers on the dark web I just turn off that disposable email address, create a new one and update my details with that 1 compromised company if I still need them.2) It really does mask your real email:
e.g.
Real email = name@yahoo.com
You choose the first part of the alias "e.g."mask" and this can only be chosen once and never be changed.
All disposable emails use this mask as the first part so appear as mask-1234@yahoo.com
There is no way to determine from the stolen info (mask-1234@yahoo.com) that your real email is name@yahoo.com.
The Gmail and ProtonMail way of using the "+" alias doesn't really protect you at all as it contains your real email address.
It is not difficult to post process the stolen database and just filter out the + alias.
e.g.
Real email = name@pm.me
Alias = name+1234@pm.me
Process the data to remove everything between "+" and "@" to convert the stolen email back to name@pm.meUsing the yahoo! way can completely eliminate SPAM forever! The issues with yahoo! are:
1) They have a poor security track record and were themselves hacked twice in short succession
2) They don't support 2FA apps (they use SMS codes which can be circumvented using SIM swapping)
3) You can't turn off their SPAM filter. Relevant because you'll never receive SPAM so will only ever result in false positives.If you combine the yahoo! way of disposable emails with a password manager and strong unique passwords your online security is seriously beefed up and you'll never receive SPAM.
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Anonymous commented
I agree with this, something like 10minutemail.com but with the possibility to control the time until the address disappear.
If you want to temporarily use a website and may need some information about products, you may need to wait a reply from an help desk... once you are done you make your temporary address disappear.. so that your email address does not end up in plenty of databases for spam and mkting purposes
tnx