Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding...
by willbrowning on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:37PM
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Yes replies have to be routed through the server in order to remove any trace of the real email address sender. They are currently sent from the domain anonaddy.me.
I will be adding the ability to send replies so that they come from a user's own custom domain soon. This will involve having to add an SPF and DKIM record as well as the MX one.
At the moment it is not possible to initiate an email conversation using an alias although it is a feature I would like to add. I'll have to think about the best ways to prevent spam when adding this.
Yes you could use the same Reply-To: name and email to reply to the same person more than once if you have already received a forwarded email from them.
> Will people see my real email if I reply to a forwarded one?
> No, your real email will not be shown, the email will look as if it has come from us instead. Just make sure not to include anything that might identify you when composing the reply, i.e. your full name.
How does that work? Do replies actually go through your servers, so that to the outside world they appear to be a proper mail from someone at AnonAddy, with SPF and DKIM all in order?
> How do you prevent spammers?
> The following is in place to help prevent spam: [list of six things it does to fight incoming spam]
Can someone with an AnonAddy address send an outgoing mail to someone who has not previously sent a mail to that AnonAddy address? If so, how will you try to prevent outgoing spam?
If outgoing mail is limited to mail to people who have sent you mail, can you initiate new mail to those people, or must each outgoing mail be in reply to a previous incoming mail?