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Show HN: Free email alias to hide your real email and organize accounts

21 points| connorpeters | 4 years ago |locke.id

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lsiebert|4 years ago

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

beardyw|4 years ago

Second that. Email is insecure, so whose eyes can see it is my first thought.

connorpeters|4 years ago

Hacked this together on AWS over the last few weeks, please let me know if you find any bugs or get any value from the project! Also any tips for more clearly communicating how it works and the value it provides would be appreciated, I've found it difficult to explain to some of my less technically inclined friends.

johnklos|4 years ago

Email aliases don't work any longer, since super smart companies like Google and Microsoft will treat any forwarded spam as original spam and will then consider the forwarding server to be a spam server.

Not sure that this is actually forwarding, but with no way to find out except using it, I'm just going to guess that it is based on the description on the site.

connorpeters|4 years ago

It's not actually forwarding, it's sending a new email with the same content. I haven't seen any issues with them going to spam but definitely a concern of mine.

tgamma|4 years ago

Nice project! But I would be a little concerned not to be able to bring my own domain name. I would not want to update all my accounts where I have used the alias in case your project stops working some day.

connorpeters|4 years ago

Thanks! That is a very reasonable concern, hopefully won't be an issue but you never know. Perhaps at some point I will add that feature to ensure people don't get locked out in some unforeseen circumstance in the future.

ev1|4 years ago

Please consider a less cool but more neutral domain/TLD.

connorpeters|4 years ago

Hi thanks for the comment! What do you mean by "more neutral domain"? What is non-neutral about locke.id?