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I built a similar service. The benefits include; 1. Custom domain , 2. unique email addresses, 3. don't have to be a Apple user.

https://mailphantom.io

I used abine and then created my own, because I wanted it simple, and their offering got a bit bloated with those other services.

No not at all silly, I want to get to this as well.

No I do not keep any emails, and a valid concern for sure.

I mean I do not have an easy way to show anyone. But I have thought about how to deal with such a request, and my thinking was to have a video call with someone and show. For the moment that is how I would solve that. Not ideal but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> I hide my email address by using Fastmail which supports wildcard user

Yes this service is not a new thing, and people come up with different ways to solve this problem.

> FYI, after years of running this experiment I’ve found that vendors don’t tend to share their email address lists.

I pretty much agree with you. But it happens, and I do feel better knowing even if they do, I needn't worry :)

I never intended to make profit from this.

But the fact that Apple thinks email privacy is important, made me think there may be something here.

I am sure this does not answer your question, but hope that helps with some context.

Firefox relay cannot reply and you only get a hand full of email addresses.

But probably enough for most people :)

This is something I made and can be played with :)

Full disclosure, I did a Show HN some time ago(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131035)

It worked, some of my friends were using it, but I never really improved on it although it was always in the back of my mind to do so at some point. So December 2020 seemed like a good time to do this.

I completely rebuilt it, but again, did not really expect that there will come much of it, it is really just for myself. It seemed that the problem I was solving was really just a problem that I had.

But then Apple announced their Hide My Email (albeit just on Apple devices) service at WWDC 21. I was like: "Hey, if Apple thinks there is something here, maybe other people would start thinking about it too."

I want to continue building on this; I've had some ideas (browser extensions, Mobile, business plan, etc. etc.) that I want to implement sooner rather than later. There is a small fee for using the service and I believe that there may now be some people, non-Apple or otherwise users, who would start to see the value of this and be willing to pay for this service.

I have not tried Apple's Hide My Email, but I think what makes Mailphantom different is that:

1. You can reply to an email; and 2. You can also add your own custom domain which only you will have access to

Perhaps a bit off topic, but I created a service that at least hides your real email address when signing up to services.

Its not a new idea, but I wanted to build something mostly for myself. So it is rudimental, but works.

https://mailphantom.com/

How does it compare? > it's probably the same. This is not a novel idea. I wanted to learn something new and the solutions available had become bloated and I wanted something simple. I used something called maskme, which turned into something called Abine Blur in the past.

How do I get the phantom address? > Once you create an account and login, you will see an input where you add a description. Then a phantom address will be generated. https://imgur.com/a/yYHKoTF

I hear people say .... > I personally do not see this as a solution to spam.

I should probably add it to the TODO: https://mailphantom.com/#TODO

...But, lets say for instance I used a phantom address for some mailing list, and the company of this mailing list suffered a data breach, the email address would be obtain by the perpetrators, as an example. I don't want them to know what my actual email address is. If they know my actual email address, they can probably find out more about me.

This was my main reason for creating this.

I hope that helps