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Basically another email address that forwards everything to your main email.
So a redirect instead of alias? E-mail alias is the address+alias@... thing.
Yeah let's say you got [email protected], on simplelogin you can make a [email protected] and now sign up for services using aleeas with those emails being forwarded to your protonmail
Here's an illustration
https://simplelogin.io/images/hero.svg
https://simplelogin.io/
What was this feature called again... basically linking, right?
It's called an email alias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_alias
I thought that was a gmail specific thing.
It is, an email alias is a redirect. They've just been calling plus codes aliases and didn't know they were mixed up.
Thats an extension
How would they even detect that? Blacklist common alias providers?
I dont think so. I get my self hosted aliases banned. They must read the dkim/spf/dmarc or other types of headers against a base of mainstream email providers
Wouldn't that ban self hosted email period?
Depends on what header they read and how
I guess so