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Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything? (www.cloaked.app)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won't manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m still not clear on the value proposition of simplelogin.

I seem to get the same thing with a domain and a catch all address.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you reply to emails to your catch-all?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Hit reply.

This is why I just moved from protonmail to Fastmail. With Fastmail I can send from arbitrary addresses using my domain. Why it’s not that simple with proton is beyond me and now that I’ve tested everything with Fastmail these past few weeks, I see it’s a choice.

I almost signed up for simplelogin but realized I was being sold something that should just be included. Plus setup was convoluted as fuck.

Meanwhile Fastmail is intuitive so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But in some cases you don’t want to use arbitrary addresses, but the exact same that was used to send you an e-mail. For me this is necessary and Simplelogin hides my real e-mail address. Additionally, I can with ease deactivate addresses and minimize spam by a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can reply from ANY address from my domain including the exact one that was used to send me an email.

I can “deactivate addresses” by sending messages to a particular address straight to trash with rules.

Edit: turns out Fastmail has a masked addresses feature built in, separate from a catch-all. It’s basically simplelogin built in, if you want to enable it. Proton is looking more and more overpriced.