Eric Broch wrote on 3/27/22 7:32 PM: > Can you explain what features you'd like to see...maybe why. I don't > have my mind around the "why" of it.
The "why" of services like Apple's Hide my Email or disposable email address systems like Sneakemail or the homebrew systems that I described in my last message is to give you 'throwaway' addresses that you can hand out to sites that you don't trust with your real address. > Would it be like an alias? Would mail only be sent to the account? Would > there be any credentials for logging in? I think it would function like an alias, in the sense that anything sent to one of the throwaways gets automatically forwarded to a real user's mailbox. Apple's Hide my Email (as I understand it) is integrated at the OS level: whenever you're prompted to provide an email address, you have the option to either auto-fill your real address, or autofill a newly-generated throwaway that consists of a random character string. Obviously, we can't get the same level of integration (unless Apple were to open up APIs for 'address providers'). You can however take the 'prefixed address' approach that I described in my earlier message and let users invent their own throwaways. That's relatively easy to do, because you just tell users that they can enter anything they like beginning with some prefix that is unique to them; the prefix, and the alias that routes mails using that prefix, is set up beforehand. Doing a truly random address like Apple's Hide my Email addresses is harder, because you need to generate the new address and then add it to your database as an alias. In essence, you'd need a web app that: 1. Let users log in (probably with their qmail credentials) 2. Generated a new disposable address on demand. 3. Recorded that new address as an alias for their real address It wouldn't be particularly hard to write, but it is more complex than a solution based on prefixed addresses. Angus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
