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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by willbrowning on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:53AM (#21649515)
Nice! I also plan to add random word aliases soon e.g. [email protected] etc. just because some people think UUID aliases stick out a bit and look odd.

To be honest the only true solution to that problem is to use your own domain. I will be adding more generic domains to use in the future so hopefully will be able to evade the majority of these blacklists.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by johnkarahalis on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:48PM (#21651947)
A friend of mine was considering building an anonymous forwarding service and ran into this same question. He also considered allowing custom domains, but if a custom domain is used, is it really anonymous? Couldn't services coordinate to realize that all email addresses under whatever.com are owned by the same person?
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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by willbrowning on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:05PM (#21652137)
Yes that's true you could be linked if using a custom domain and someone can determine that nobody else is sharing that domain with you.

That's why I added the additional username feature to compartmentalise aliases and also the UUID aliases.

The UUID aliases all share the same domain e.g anonaddy.me so it is not possible to link ownership of these to any particular user.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by a1369209993 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:04PM (#21654065)
Do you support sending to email address with raw IP address or .onion domain as the domain part? Eg:

  [email protected]
  test@[2001:0DB8::0004] # or possibly
  [email protected]
  test@l5satjgud6gucryazcyvyvhuxhr74u6ygigiuyixe3a6ysis67ororad.onion
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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by willbrowning on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:13AM (#21655505)
Not at the moment I'm afraid. It would be cool to set up an .onion address, I'll have to look into this.
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