Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service

Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by 55555 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:33PM (#21654402)

Yeah but only geeks like us know about alias files

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by pdonis on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:19AM (#21654775)

I didn't mean email alias files. The article explains what it means by "email aliases", and it's something different.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by 55555 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:08AM (#21658274)

I meant the files that contain aliases which are used to configure MTAs, which thus create email aliases.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by pdonis on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:38AM (#21662766)

Still not what either I or the article is talking about. Yes, the person designing the service has to know about alias files (or whatever other back end is being used), but the user doesn't have to know or care. I'm talking about what the user sees.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding... by willbrowning on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:42AM (#21658588)

I actually use the database to store all the different aliases, then Postfix does a database lookup to see if they exist or not.

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