[Alive-in-2025]

A few ways I've heard about - DuckDuckGo.com has a system that generates a random email address on their domain where you can request "a new email address" whenever you need one; you request a new alias and they create a permanent mapping to your real address from that new address. Then mail sent to say [e-mail] goes to you, duck remembers the mapping that this goes to your address. You can reply back and duck handles the anon mapping.

Or you can have a catchall email address on your own domain, where anything sent to any alias on your domain gets forwarded to your own address. Then [e-mail] and [e-mail] goes to your real private address. you don't have to set it up. Anytime you join a new service, say reddit, you tell them your address is "[e-mail]".

All of these have a level of pain associated with them. And they aren't that private. The government could no doubt get a court order to pierce the obscured email addresses.

There's proton email and many others. All of these are too painful for most people.

I have wondered if people who want to be really secret set up a chain of these anon mail forwarding systems.