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I've been trying out Firefox Relay for a couple of months, and I really like the idea of hiding my real email address. The only thing putting me off from this concept is the fact that it makes my experience significantly worse, as it's now harder to quickly understand where the email comes from.

A simple example: if I give my real email address to an online shop, I will receive a confirmation email with

From: Online Shop

Which is trivial to read.

If I give a generated Relay address, then the emails will come as

From: "noreply@onlineshop.com [via Relay]"

Which is much harder to parse off a quick glance, especially on smaller screens like a smartwatch.

When receiving emails, I don't really care if they were forwarded via Relay, and I would much rather see the original sender in the From field. Is this necessary for proper privacy, or just an issue specific to Firefox Relay? And if so, is there any other email masking platform that supports what I'm looking for?

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[-] SpyDallyCandour@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Worth giving SimpleLogin.io a look. It has customizable display options for this. (not affiliated, just enjoy using it)

[-] scorchingheat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I ended up going with addy.io since their Lite plan is cheaper and offers what I'm currently looking for, but I'll keep SimpleLogin in mind for whenever I need to upgrade.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Emails received via SimpleLogin in Protonmail have the original From: in the headers though:

From: Stack Overflow 
To: stackoverflow.redacted@aleeas.com

The setting you mentioned is only used for these headers:

X-Pm-Original-From: "Stack Overflow - do-not-reply(a)stackoverflow.email" 
Reply-To: "Stack Overflow - do-not-reply(a)stackoverflow.email" 

which affects what it says in the subject line when you reply:

[-] scorchingheat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've heard of them before, good to know they support this. I'll check out their plans, thanks!

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago

Addy.io shows it as "Company 'noreply at company.com' "

So it is possible to more transparent. Of course when I click on it to show the actual email it shows something like "alias+noreply=company.com@mydomain.com" as that's the relay mail which replies actually get sent to.

[-] scorchingheat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was aware of SimpleLogin but I hadn't heard of this service before, thanks for the tip! I'll try to check them out and come back with a comparison.

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago

They recently changed their name from AnonAddy which might be a reason you haven't heard of them. I've been very happy with their service for a long time now.

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Have you tried using aliases? I have ones set up for all my different accounts that get filed into specific folders

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