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Have you read the following articles on replying and sending from aliases?

• https://anonaddy.com/help/replying-to-email-using-an-alias/
• https://anonaddy.com/help/sending-email-from-an-alias/

Each free account is permitted 1 reply or send from an alias in order to test how it works, after this you will receive a notification asking you to upgrade if you'd like to send more.

The send from address as you call it is not a new special type of alias, it is simply a construction of one of your own aliases including a plus extension which informs the system where it should be directed to. (See the image at the top of both links above).

Say I had the alias "" and wanted to send an email to "", then I would construct an address like this:

[email protected]

This address can be used as many times as you like to send replies/messages.

You do not need to edit the send from you just construct a new one if you want to send an email to someone else. e.g. to "" would be:

[email protected]

Yes I've written a short article on it here - anonaddy.com/help/adding-a-custom-domain/.

Make sure to read the bit about changing the host values for a subdomain, e.g. for the TXT DMARC record: from_dmarc to _dmarc.mail if mail.yourdomain.com was your subdomain.

Hopefully it will be live by the end of this week, it was a premium domain so I'm currently waiting for it to be transferred to my account before I can start adding records.

HAha, I even use your service and I love it, but idk it makes me thing of GoDaddy.com and I've always said AnonDaddy when I recommend it to people.

It's actually probably a good idea to get anondaddy and redirect to your actual website !

When I was on a free plan, I think I remember I was able to send from an alias, or reply, once. Then it was over, and I was warned that sending or replying was a paid feature.

The service has been enhanced considerably since, so how it worked then is probably not how it works now. I am on a paid plan presently, so I cannot try and reproduce what you did.

The pricing table says anonymous replies and sends are for paid plans only. This is ambiguous. It might mean you could reply with a free plan, but your real address would be revealed.

Let's hope the Anonaddy developer will chime in, and tell us how it is.

Hey, I realise this thread is dated - but did you get it set up?

You're totally right, if you have a PGP key already you should just be able to provide it to AnonAddy and it will forward emails using the PUBLIC PGP key.

If you're not aware of how PGP encryption works, I'd suggest check out "PGP encryption" under your search engines images tab. Nord VPN has a good explainer here: https://nordvpn.com/blog/what-is-pgp-encryption/

The premise is that your PUBLIC key is what you can give to anyone, and as this key is intrinsically paired with your private key - only individuals with your PRIVATE key can decrypt the message.

You are right that you don't need hosting or hosted email with your domain if you just want to add it to AnonAddy.

You also don't need to purchase an SSL/TLS certificate as when you add your domain to AnonAddy connecting mail servers will use the one on AnonAddy's server when communicating. (as a side note you can get SSL/TLS certs for free using LetsEncrypt if you ever need one in the future).

All you need to do is purchase the domain only then follow the steps on AnonAddy to add the correct DNS records and it should work as expected.

That's correct, you might have read it here.

> where 2,3 and 4 are keys that map to your recipients (separated by periods "."). You can find the key for each recipient on the recipients page when you are logged in.

I'll add better documentation for this soon.

They’re different.

My understanding is MS released the functionality to have labels in an email address much like in Gmail. E.g. .

Anonaddy allows you to have proxy email addresses that cannot be tied back to your actual email address or to your domain (you can clearly tell what the true email address you use is in the gmail example). AA also allows you to generate new email addresses on the fly and kill off others as needed.

Anonaddy is more like Firefox Relay than what MS released. MS’ feature is more like being able to have email address labels.

Firefox Relay: https://relay.firefox.com

I'm not sure about that. Up to now, I stood by the following statement by Anonaddy :

• A deactivated alias will silently discard any email sent to it, the sender will not be notified of this.
• A deleted alias will reject any email sent to it and the sender will get notified.

How does that combine with the ability to disable catch-all (which is a paid feature) ?

After all, the whole point of the service is the ability to nuke an alias and prevent anyone from sending to it, if it gets in the hands of spammers.

If any website can bypass that by sending to an alias it had previously been given, thus re-creating it, Anonaddy becomes useless.

I'd love Mr. Addy to chime in on that in order to set the matter straight.

The person you reply to only sees your alias. He cannot know your "real" email address. That's the whole point.

About the banner added by Anonaddy inside the email, the FAQ says you have to remove it manually before sending the reply. However, I just made a test, and it appears this is obsolete : Anonaddy now removes it automatically.

Anyway, even if it did not, and your correspondent could see the banner, this would not be a problem : there is no confidential information there (especially not your "real" email address), and the recipient would not be able to use the link, contrary to you.

Not sure if you are referring to a subdomain from your own custom domain… Or additional username/subdomain under annonaddy… But for both there is a good explanation in the FAQ: (*mail.example.com)

https://anonaddy.com/faq/

The privacy benefit mentioned is that maybe you are concerned all your email can be identified and connected by your username/subdomain.. so you have alternate subdomains to use as well.

Also It helps just if you want to keep things organized and split /segregate your aliases into groups…(such work related vs. personal, vs spam-signups, etc.. )

I like the user defined RegEx feature idea, this could potentially be added to the rules system.

Regarding the remaining points you mentioned, there is obviously a limit as to what AnonAddy is able to filter out from any reply/send from an alias, for example if you attached an image to the email with the text "my real email is "" then AnonAddy cannot be expected to remove this.

The information banner "This email was sent to..." that is included on forwarded emails (if enabled) would not be present when using the "send from" feature since it would be a new email. I've mentioned that this is not automatically stripped out in the FAQ - https://anonaddy.com/faq/#does-anonaddy-strip-out-the-banner-information-when-i-reply-to-an-email

Although the banner information would let the receiver of the email know that you are using AnonAddy it would NOT reveal your true email address.

You are correct, you should not attach any file or public key that reveals your real email address as this is part of the email body and will be forwarded in any reply/send from.

so you only use the main anonaddy.com for support and you do that in protonmail (added your domain as custom domain) , right ?

the other domains used in your service are used in your own servers using webmail server app (are you in liberty to say which one ) ?

and a side note : can you enable end to end encryption in your service ?

I'm not sure I fully understand the question.

Do you mean, how do you send an email from an alias? If so I've written an article about this here - https://anonaddy.com/help/sending-email-from-an-alias/

Or if replying - https://anonaddy.com/help/replying-to-email-using-an-alias/

At the moment you cannot use the API to send/forward email.

This is the first I've heard about this happening, I'm surprised they would delete the account outright.

Would you be able to drop me an email with further details? (It's on the website here)