Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
by davemtl on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:53AM
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My worry was this required both FastMail and 1Password, to my delight you only need FastMail. Masked Email is an option under settings.
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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
by photon-torpedo on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:02AM
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Already in the past I've been (ab)using Fastmail's email alias feature for this kind of purpose. Though it was a bit inconvenient as the UI always said that it takes 15 minutes for the new alias to become fully active. Great to see they now have simplified this!
Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
by LilBytes on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:40AM
(#28682647)
I'm a current user of Fastmail and set up a wildcard alias for this purpose:
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca...
When I get spam to a particular alias, I blacklist it to my spam folder. Naturally this might get a little difficult if a spam bot ever figures this out where I'd need to move to a whitelist rather than blacklist process. But it's worked flawlessly for years so far.
At least with my method I don't need to create the alias in advance.
Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:02AM
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This is good to know. I might use this in a few scenarios, but I would not be willing to implement a password management service to get it.