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E-mail forwarding

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  • All the spammers need to do is use your @my-name.addy.io to check where else you've signed up (through hacked data sets) or send more spam. And arent the emails you can forward to very limited (1 I think?). That just beats the purpose of aliases.

    True that could happen. However you can use a shared domain to avoid this. It is one more click to generate a new mail address if you think it is worth eliminating that risk.
    I don't know where you get the 1 reply limit from. Can't find that on their website and definitely wrong for subscribers.

    Hmm after reading through the post, are you posting this because you just learned about it or this is their marketing speaking?

    Definitely not affiliated with them in any way. Just a happy customer and though others might be profiting as well.

    So just use a cheap custom domain with wildcard email forwarding or services that have conditional forwarding instead of adding 1 more layer that could fail you

    Sure you could do that. But I am sure that 99.9% of people that use gmail can't and won't.

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  • I don't know about any usability dis-/advantages, as this is the only service I have tested. Is duck.com open source? Addy.io is and has an option to self host. And it is not US based. But for most users this might not be important.

    I have about 250 aliases and I think I never reacht the 10mb limit. But I also pay for the ultimate subscription so I wouldn't necessarily notice if I did.

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  • In addition to an email provider I would also reccomend a service like https://addy.io/.

    It creates email aliases that forward to your real email address. So you never have to give out you real mail address to any service. If you create a new mail address for every service you use you can easily deactivate it in case it gets spammed. Also you know that the service sold your data or got hacked if the mail gets spam.

    Another benefit is that in case the CEOof your current email provider turns out to be a dick you can just go to another provider by changing the mail address where Addy.io forwards your other mails to.