I'd really like to use the service and in fact I wish I'd been using it forever. But I want to do it right and self host it. It's just, maybe the most complicated thing I've ever seen.
Does it require self hosting your own email server as well? If you already own a domain, does that make the process easier?
is Anon Addy the only service like this? Also I'd love to integrate with bitwarden, so when I create a new account for some website, I can automatically create a new email address. (idk if there's any reason to do this, just think it could be cool)
To piggyback further, I've been wondering if having my own domain would help me get around my double nat issue not allowing me to make reverse proxies.
Thanks in advance to the community!
Edit:
I think I have a solution! Bitwarden actually has these integrations already and it's relatively new. duckduck go just doesn't work. I tried forwardemail and that site is filled with dark patterns so you think the free account is worth a damn until you're already invested time into setting it up. At the last minute it tells you you can't use it with bitwarden on the free account. The others are at least up front about their pricing. forwardemail.net doesn't even have a pricing page. Sending emails from the masked addresses is also paywalled. pretty much all functionality on forwardemail.net is paywalled, but they hide it from you the best they can, so fuck that company.
I spoke too soon. There's no option that isn't paid. So I guess back to self hosting anonaddy
Edit: I finally got duckduckgo email working with bitwarden integration. It now generates a random email for me automatically!
Edit edit: Found a good solution:
There are two solid solutions I think for this problem: Bitwarden + SimpleLogin integration. Ends up being about $40/year. The SimpleLogin integration is more limited as it just generates a generic hash. Pass gives you more flexibility - it adds the domain followed by a hash. It's cheaper by a few bucks if you pay per year.
or
Proton Pass ($48/year, or $36/year if paying for 2 years, or if you have proton unlimited ($8/mo), it's included What' nice is that the email address alias generator is built in and has a lot more options. It's cheaper if you pay for 2 years or already have proton unlimited. Both have stellar track records.
I used to host anonaddy, I don't have the docker compose or configs anymore but I don't remember it being that bad. I stopped a couple years ago because simplelogin became included with my vpn subscription (and then I found fastmail, which has a similar feature built in so I ended up canceling simplelogin and that vpn and going to fastmail and mullvad). I basically just edite their example compose/env files and ran it behind my existing nginxproxymanager setup (that is gone now too, ended up moving to traefik but that's a story for another time). compose example here: https://github.com/anonaddy/docker/tree/master/examples/compose
Thanks! Do you have a static IP or anything? I'm behind a double NAT and my ISP is really restrictive. They don't even let me use port forwarding on the suplied ont/router
yah, you need an ideally clean static ip because that is what is used for repution stuff like spf/dmarc/dkim I hosted this on a tiny vps
I didn't think so. I discovered SimpleLogin and Fastmail though and these are more than sufficient for what I want. They cost money but I think it's worthwhile