Addy.io Free, Open-source Self-Hostable Anonymous Email Forwarding is owned by a UK developer

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My name is Will Browning, I'm a web developer from the UK and an advocate for online privacy and open-source software. You can find me on Twitter although I don't tweet that much!

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Addy.io Free, Open-source Self-Hostable Anonymous Email Forwarding is owned by a UK developer

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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.
- That's cool

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

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.

I was going to say it's pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason...)
Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!
- He is a UK dev but he may host elsewhere his services (sorry, too late for me to verify it)
- Just because our government are a bunch of raging arseholes, doesn't make everyone else here the same.
  No one agrees with their policies, unfortunately all parties keep stepping on our necks so it ends up happening through a lack of choice.
  
  I think this is why reformUK support is skyrocketing, people are sick to shit of the LAB-CON roundabout and managed decline. Doubt REF will be any better tho.
  
  note that I said provider not developer. Obviously people don't have much choice and their location isn't a reason to cast judgment on them, but what jurisdiction a service provider operates out of is pretty impactful. I'm certainly not envious of the current political situation in the Kid Starver regime

Seems good... no note though the UK is not the bastion of openness it should be and I dont tust their tech companies either.
- Worse case scenario there's self hosting

I've been a paid user for 2 years. I can highly recommend.
- Even their free tier is quite good. I also recommend

This is great!
I’ve been manually doing this since I had my first domain name. For years, I used the catch-all and just put entity@example.com for each entry I interacted with. I’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 that’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. It’s a US company though.
I’m tempted to migrate. Maybe even self-host.
- 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.

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