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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can also link this to Bitwarden and generate aliases direct in the browser plugin. It has a tendency to forget the API keys though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's cool

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm self hosting this, pretty useful and working good, I generally forget about it

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems good... no note though the UK is not the bastion of openness it should be and I dont tust their tech companies either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Worse case scenario there's self hosting

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Excellent service, highly recommend! I pay for the "Lite" plan which is dirt cheap and allows me to create aliases under my own domain. So my accounts all have unique email addresses and I know when a company sells my contact info because I start receiving unsolicited spam to that alias. I use aliases for temporary needs too, like RSVPing to events, and I deactivate them afterward if I never want to hear from the organizers again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been a paid user for 2 years. I can highly recommend.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Even their free tier is quite good. I also recommend

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is great!

Iโ€™ve been manually doing this since I had my first domain name. For years, I used the catch-all and just put _[email protected] for each entry I interacted with. Iโ€™ve shut off dozens of aliases over the years. I can tell when their email list database was leaked/sold because the spam instantly jumps for that alias.

My hosting provider shut off the catch-all years ago (still grumpy about that), so for some domains, I manually manage forwarders. I looked a bit into running my own mail server, but thatโ€™s for masochists. I was recommended https://mxroute.com/ that offers cPanel management of aliases and has a catch-all feature. I got their 10-year plan for pretty cheap. Itโ€™s a US company though.

Iโ€™m tempted to migrate. Maybe even self-host.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I jumped from Proton and SimpleLogin to selfhosted mailcow and addy.io. I could skip the addy.io part but I have some family members using it and the interface is much easier for them to figure out then the mailcow interface. Plus addy.io has great mobile apps. I use MXroute as my outbound relay since I actually want my emails to get delivered to the inbox and not spam folders.

The only real issue with selfhosted email is making sure you've got all your DNS records setup correctly and then making sure you have something like crowdsec watching the logs to keep the script kiddies out.