Best option for Email aliases?
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No, it's just as easy as replying to the email forwarded to you. It will go through the company's system, strip all identifying data, and send it back as if it were from the forwarding address.
I will admit these services are better for if you simply want to stop spam. If one email starts getting cluttered, you know who sold you out, and you can simply turn it off. With aliases, you will still have to manually send them to the spam folder/start getting annoyed.
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I personally would just forward all emails onto 1 account and never access those email accounts again. Or just get rid of them all together if there’s not a real need for them. I had like 7 email accounts and only have 2 now excluding work ones. With work I have 1 account but that 1 account has shared mailbox access so I don’t need to remember logins. They attach automatically in outlook.
Not sure if this fits your requirements, but you can add "+keyword" to your email address and it'll still land in your inbox, for example:
Email address of myEmailHere[at]gmail.com can be myEmailHere+ocuk[at]gmail.com and it'll still land in your inbox, with that additional + word in the sent to so you can see where it comes from, so you could add a new + word for as many different "aliases" as you like.
Benefit of this is that you don't need to go into any kind of control panel and set up a new alias each time you want one. Negative is that you can't reply and have it look like it came from the + version of the email, at least not as far as I've seen.
You can then set a filter based on who it was sent to, so if you had myEmailHere+spam[at]gmail.com, you can auto filter to delete when it lands.
Caveat - this is just what I do in Gmail, not sure if other providers work in the same way. Worth a test if it might help you though
Email address of myEmailHere[at]gmail.com can be myEmailHere+ocuk[at]gmail.com and it'll still land in your inbox, with that additional + word in the sent to so you can see where it comes from, so you could add a new + word for as many different "aliases" as you like.
Benefit of this is that you don't need to go into any kind of control panel and set up a new alias each time you want one. Negative is that you can't reply and have it look like it came from the + version of the email, at least not as far as I've seen.
You can then set a filter based on who it was sent to, so if you had myEmailHere+spam[at]gmail.com, you can auto filter to delete when it lands.
Caveat - this is just what I do in Gmail, not sure if other providers work in the same way. Worth a test if it might help you though
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Not sure if this fits your requirements, but you can add "+keyword" to your email address and it'll still land in your inbox, for example:
Email address of myEmailHere[at]gmail.com can be myEmailHere+ocuk[at]gmail.com and it'll still land in your inbox, with that additional + word in the sent to so you can see where it comes from, so you could add a new + word for as many different "aliases" as you like.
Benefit of this is that you don't need to go into any kind of control panel and set up a new alias each time you want one. Negative is that you can't reply and have it look like it came from the + version of the email, at least not as far as I've seen.
You can then set a filter based on who it was sent to, so if you had myEmailHere+spam[at]gmail.com, you can auto filter to delete when it lands.
Caveat - this is just what I do in Gmail, not sure if other providers work in the same way. Worth a test if it might help you though
This does work, but some websites can detect that and remove it.
Ah I didn't know that, but equally unsurprised that it's a step that some sites take. Thanks for the info!
I use google to create email alias, forwarding to real accounts, created one yesterday ,
The account verification text messages now seem to come from a UK phone number(+44752643233* one example), as opposed to being identified as from 'Google', and seemed a different font/character set.
what's up ?
the code worked when entered into account setup, but nonetheless smelt like a man in the middle attack
The account verification text messages now seem to come from a UK phone number(+44752643233* one example), as opposed to being identified as from 'Google', and seemed a different font/character set.
what's up ?
the code worked when entered into account setup, but nonetheless smelt like a man in the middle attack
OK seems to be a common problem with google verification codes / sms's
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I've just come across this, I've not tried it yet
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Apples hide my email option is decent if you are in apples ecosystem.
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Does that work with any email provider, or just iCloud emails?
You get a <random characters>@privaterelay.appleid.com email which just forwards to whatever your email your Apple account is signed up with.
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Any email provider, works with my gmail as an example.
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So when I go into this to set it up it says create new address , so do I add my email and it just randomises it?
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