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Is this feature mentioned in documentation or guides? It's really convenient, but it has a flaw which I'll describe at the end...

I found on Android that if you're on a website and you go to the browser menu to select 'share', you can share with the SimpleLogin app (if it's installed) and it will open the create alias dialogue with the website name automatically filled. So with my SimpleLogin settings and personal domain I would get an alias automatically filled like reddit.word@domain.com

(I should say that I have in my SimpleLogin account settings enabled "Include website address in one-click alias creation on browser extension". I don't think this setting is available in the Android app though, so it has to be accessed by another means, such as by logging in on a browser.)

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For reddit.com I would get an alias like reddit.word@domain.com. But this falls down when the domain has a second-level label. For example if the website were reddit.co.uk it would get the alias co.word@domain.com.

I created this post mostly to raise awareness of the convenient function I found. Did people already know about it? Maybe I should report the problem I found too though? Where's the best place to raise this issue? GitHub? Or maybe the team can respond here?​

I was unaware that there was a limit of 40 characters for the local part (before the @) of an alias. The way I found out was when I tried importing aliases which I've been using with my custom domain with another provider. I imported most of my several hundred aliases successfully, but noticed that there were a dozen missing in SimpleLogin after the mass import. I investigated to see which hadn't imported and realised that it was the really long ones.

This limitation has ramifications. Potentially people cannot use their custom domains with SimpleLogin if they are not allowed to import or otherwise create these long aliases which have historically been used with their domain. In my case it's OK - I've managed to change my email address with most of the services, and am able to 'sacrifice' the ones which I cannot change.

I'm posting this for two reasons. One is just for the record - so that people might be aware of a limitation before trying to migrate from another provider to SimpleLogin. Secondly - might the possibility of raising the character limit be considered?

By the way, the reason for such long aliases was that it allowed me to include a long part of a service's URL to help me keep track of which part of their service the alias related to.

Also by the way, I do realise that this won't affect many...