On the Email Aliasing recommendation page the Outgoing Replies box for Addy.io is not ticked like it is on SimpleLogin.
As someone who currently uses SimpleLogin through Proton, but is potentially looking to diversify, does Addy.io not allow outgoing replies like SimpleLogin does? Their website gives the impression that it works almost identically to SimpleLogin, although obviously not as intertwined as SimpleLogin, ProtonPass & ProtonMail.
When I started my privacy journey I now realise I gave too many people & businesses my actual Proton email address. After doing more research and learning a lot from this site & forum, if I did change to Addy.io I would be pointing it to my Tuta email address (PGP isn’t a requirement for me), or potentially a custom domain through Tuta.
I will test Addy.io through Tuta myself, but I just want to check whether the Email Aliasing page is correct, or if it needs updating.
sending emails is never free[1], hence no developer wants to eat the cost for you (mostly because of people abusing the system)
receiving is far cheaper + easier, hence it’s fine into a free-tier
if PG focuses on free tiers in their recommendations it’s because it’s still the best kind of anonymity (to not even need any kind of money transaction )
you can meanwhile still buy a gift card anonymously for either SimpleLogin or Addy on this store[2]
I do have extensive experience with both SimpleLogin and Addy, hence feel free to ask some details if you have further questions.
As said plenty of times, I do consider that Addy is overall a far greater experience overall than SimpleLogin.
I admit that I never used it through ProtonPass but I’m not trusting any kind of services when it comes down to my passwords + don’t want to put all my eggs into 1 single basket.
I agree addy is a slicker product than simplelogin which is a huge testament to the developer. I also agree about password managers, the security of which imo is an order of magnitude more important than any of my apps and several more than email. No way will I use a password manager that is bundled with other apps which all share the same login criteria.
I’m actually quite tempted by the addy/free protonmail combo with addy managing all aliasing. I already have a proton account and I already have an addy account. So I just need to switch my custom domain from Tuta to Addy, export my emails and load them into Proton. I expect I’d have to upgrade my Addy plan too.
But a still in pole position is fastmail which offers a much cleaner solution to aliasing (eg they don’t get routed and thus display normally in the mailbox).
I’ve just discovered through testing that protonmail now shows simple login aliases in their correct form, ie “alias@simplelogin.com” instead of the unpleasant “alias at simplelogin.com”. A good reason to prefer simple login over Addy if using protonmail.
Now my choice is down to a simplelogin premium account coupled with protonmail free vs fastmail.
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