r/Simplelogin

When everyone talks about having a random custom domain,

is it random like: khce39gx.com?

Or is it random like: catgraypickle.com?

I'm not a fan of being tracked all over the internet, and retail companies aren't particularly known for respecting and keeping people's data secure. However, retailers and delivery companies do expect me to use the same email address for online shopping and managing deliveries, and that is a way for packages to be automatically linked to my account in delivery apps. Some retailers don't even include all the essential information in their emails that I need to pick up the package, or even to know that it's ready for pickup. Adding packages manually doesn't always work. I don't want to risk losing a package because of this.

Some delivery companies link packages using phone numbers instead, and some require both the email and the phone number to match. They also all know my real name (which is unique) and where I live, so it feels like I wouldn't actually be reducing tracking by much if I used unique aliases for every retailer instead of one alias dedicated to online shopping and their stupid memberships.

Do you still think it's worth it?

Is it possible to share a custom domain with other users?

I have a cheap custom domain for SimpleLogin. For it to really work as an alias, more people need to use it, not just me, right?

What if I want to share my domain with the world, ie a small group of select people?

Is it possible?

In settings, SimpleLogin has the option:

>Include original sender in email headers

>SimpleLogin forwards emails to your mailbox from the reverse-alias and not from the original sender address.
If this option is enabled, the original sender addresses is stored in the email header X-SimpleLogin-Envelope-From and the original From header is stored in X-SimpleLogin-Original-From. You can choose to display this header in your email client.
As email headers aren't encrypted, your mailbox service can know the sender address via this header.

I need help understanding this. Especially the part where it says 'As email headers aren't encrypted, your mailbox service can know the sender address via this header.' I am using SimpleLogin with Proton. So does this mean that checking 'Include sender address in email headers' make it less secure?

Few different parts to this. I currently have a free proton mail account that is only used for bitwarden and want to keep it that way. I have been thinking of getting proton pass plus mainly for the use of aliases, use a different alias for each account I have. I already use bitwarden as my password manager so don't intend to switch to proton pass. On the storage part, pass plus comes with 10gb, does that also count towards mail storage? Is that 10gb shared across all proton services? With my free proton mail account, I have 1gb of storage and realize that would not be enough once I start using aliases for all my accounts. Also, seen posts saying people on paid plans get a storage increase for free each year. Does that count towards any paid plan or just the ultimate plan?

Been thinking of getting my own .com domain through something like porkbun, not set on that but do see that recommended a lot. For the domain name, seen many say to use part of name but not sure I want to do that. Would rather not have my email itself say anything about me. Although not sure how much that matters if I use aliases. Once I do get the domain setup on proton, will there be 2 different inboxes, 1 for the porkbun domain and another for the actual proton mail address? Would I use aliases through the domain address or the proton address?

For those that use aliases, have you ran into any issues with certain sites not accepting aliases? For important things like banking, insurance, is it better to use an actual email instead of an alias? Although will not be common for me, can I reply to an email with an alias without exposing actual email?

Currently, I am just focused on a domain and aliases, head is spinning enough dealing with this. Down the road, I can see myself possibly wanting to get out of the google system. Even though I use 2 different gmail accounts for all my accounts, neither of them get much spam mail at all. I know it is more about the privacy aspect. From the reading I have done, seems like the hardest part would be getting away from google photos. Will worry about that when the time comes, who knows what will change by the time I get around to that.

One last thing, I found this after I started thinking about using porkbun but I seen a reddit post with a link to a linkedin post saying proton has made a partnership with proton. This post was from 1 year ago. Not sure exactly what this means.

EDIT: After thinking about this, not sure I want to use a different alias for each service. Seems like it could be a bit of a hassle to manage the aliases, at least how I do things. Lets say I go through with aliases, every one of my accounts has a different alias that points towards the domain I added to proton. What if I was to move away from proton/SL for whatever reason, would I have to change anything with the aliases?

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.)

Here's the fiaw

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 wasn't sure if they stored locally only and I had to back them up with a key somewhere. Some authenticator apps (I no longer use) acted as local only with no cloud sync and that caused some problems since they didn't specifically state that.

For instance, if I wipe my device and redownload the app to login again, will everything still be there?

Being an email service, I would assume everything is tied with the account but I just wanted to confirm with y'all.

Hi everyone,

I want to set up a SimpleLogin alias so that all emails arriving at that alias get automatically forwarded not just to my own inbox, but also to several people in my circle (family/friends) who don't use SimpleLogin.

From what I've understood so far:

• The way to do it is by adding each person's email as a mailbox on my SimpleLogin account.
• Then assigning all those mailboxes to the same alias, so every email that hits the alias gets forwarded to all of them.
• The issue is that each new mailbox needs to be verified via a confirmation email, and the link expires quickly.

My questions are:

1. Is this still the recommended way to share an alias with several people (using multiple mailboxes on one alias)?
2. Has anyone set something like this up for several contacts (family/friends)? Any tricks to make the verification process smoother?

I'd like to make sure I'm not missing a specific feature or a better pattern for this use case.

Thanks in advance.

A review I wrote on trustpilot.com wasn't published because I gave them an e-mail alias. WTH... More and more websites won't accept e-mail aliases, I guess I'm going to have to buy a domain at a reputable TLD...

How to unblock the sender??? Anybody?

This thing drives me crazy as I can't find any solution.

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