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Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by TemporaryMail on Sunday July 14, 2024 @02:35PM (#40962497)
Just for fun.

It started with me getting annoyed with SHEIN as they sent out spam to me and their unsubscribe link was set to localhost (127.0.0.1 - they are still using this last I checked) and in the same time period I found a suitable domain at an auction so I thought I'd give this a go.

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by WiF3cap7ShUth4 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:52AM (#40987221)
I was wondering whether you had ever considered developing an alias email service instead of temporary email? Many users who use temporary email services may soon be blacklisted. Personally, I believe that an open-source service such as Addy (previously AnonAddy) has a brighter future. I am not a technological specialist, therefore I can just mention on the user side.

Regardless, I appreciate your efforts to help the community. I wish you good health and success.

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by TemporaryMail on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @08:48PM (#40991600)
If I'm not misunderstanding you, the same should go for aliases as they will be flagged as disposable addresses as well. I also noticed that Addy allows users to send emails through it, which is a risky process as it requires close monitoring so spam isn't sent out through the service.

I will take a closer look at this and see if it's possible to improve it in some way.

Thanks for the kind words also and the same to you! =)

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by WiF3cap7ShUth4 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @06:42AM (#40994307)
Simple Login (SL), Addy (AD), and DuckDuckGo Email Protection (DDG) are the 3 alias email services I use. Both SL and AD can send and receive. DDG only receives. You can disable the sending direction and simply allow the forward service to run. I believe you will be able to handle this technological challenge. SL and AD are free for 10 aliases, but AD also includes PGP in the free tier. DDG allows for unlimited aliases but does not support PGP; nonetheless, it is free.

How great would it be if you could combine the benefits of such services?

I appreciate your time.

SL: https://simplelogin.io/

AD: https://addy.io/

DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/email/

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by TemporaryMail on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:30AM (#41024938)
Thanks for the advice and I'll look into supporting email forwarding, but I'm not sure why users would need PGP.
Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by WiF3cap7ShUth4 on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:03AM (#41035277)
You can look at this https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/29/202106-yes-we-want-c...

I quote a section that corresponds to my situation

>Email is everyone’s primary trust anchor online

>If a user loses access to an online account, most services have an account recovery mechanism that will let the user back in. Usually, this works by sending an email to the user with a one-time password.

>If an attacker compromises a user’s email account, they can use the same mechanism to gain control of the user’s account on any service that uses the email account as a trust root. In practice, that’s most of the user’s online accounts. Unfortunately, two-factor authentication only offers limited protection. It is opt-in and usually uses a phone number, which is easily hijacked.

>If account recovery emails were encrypted, the trust anchor would instead be the encryption key. Since the encryption key is stored on the user’s computer, this would defeat this type of attack.

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by TemporaryMail on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:00PM (#41039757)
Can you give me an example of who would be sending you emails with PGP though to your disposable email address and why?
Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by WiF3cap7ShUth4 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:25AM (#41046964)
I'm not referring about throwaway emails. I'm merely referring to email aliases.

Nobody will send PGP encrypted email to an alias email address. The email alias will route emails using PGP to your inbox.

> Sender (without PGP) -> Alias (with PGP) -> mailbox

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service by TemporaryMail on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:05PM (#41073875)
Got it, that makes more sense and could actually make your inbox more private as the email provider won't be able to snoop into your emails to gather data to "make your ads more personalized".

I'll look into this now that it makes more sense, thanks for the advice!