proton pass vs simplelogin - aliases
from muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to privacy@lemmy.ml on 13 Jul 07:15
https://sh.itjust.works/post/42059337

I’m trying to migrate off gmail and apple services and ended up getting a domain and going to proton and using simplelogin for making aliases. But now I’m looking at proton pass, which comes free with my plan and lets me create aliases and wondering why I did that.

Ideally, I want nobody to have my main email address. everything gets an alias and dumps into the main. if the main address is found out, I just kill it and get another and point all the aliases to that. if an alias gets spammy or sold off to obnoxious marketing boobs, I kill the alias and create a new one.

I got started with migrating a few things over today into the aliases I had on my domain with simplelogin. I started to wonder what would happen if I replied to any of these and unlike apple hide-my-mail, it looks like these expose my actual address, unless I go through the trouble of going to simplelogin and getting an reverse alias link through them, which is an annoying pain in the ass. looking to see if there was any integration like apple’s icloud had, I find proton pass is included in my mail plus plan and lets me do what simplelogin already was doing, complete with my domain being in the alias address!

So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this? can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?

I have needed to get away from google for a while and am finally getting off my ass to do it, but apple hide my email was so simple to use whereas proton seems to have these weird oversights.

#privacy

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westingham@sh.itjust.works on 13 Jul 07:28 next collapse

I have the Proton Unlimited plan so I’m using all their services. I create a new email alias through Proton Pass, which uses SimpleLogin, for every site I sign up for. If I receive an email through the alias in my Proton Mail inbox, and I reply to it, it goes through the alias and doesn’t expose my true email address.

All very easy to setup and do.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 13 Jul 08:44 next collapse

So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this?

Unfortunate side effect of buying someone else’s product instead of just making your own.

can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?

Yes. It’s called a relay for a reason. When you receive an email it will come from a relay address, not the actual sender. You reply to that relay address and then the other party receives your relay address (alias).

LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one on 13 Jul 09:06 collapse

Check out DuckDuckGo, they also have an email alias forwarding system like SimpleLogin. I have a different email address/alias for each account that I have and they all end up in my Proton inbox. Also, you’re able to reply and send email with the DuckDuckGo address from Proton mail.

@Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines Created a Post/Group about how to De-Google. The details about my set-up is also there. Hope it helps:

lemmy.myserv.one/post/19040195

Ilandar@lemmy.today on 13 Jul 11:43 next collapse

There’s no reason to sign up for DuckDuckGo’s service, since OP already uses Proton (which owns SimpleLogin). It would just be unnecessarily increasing their footprint.

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Jul 15:43 collapse

Can you have multiple duck adresses at the same time?