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I might be wrong but it's there a feature in Gmail where you can "+word" to your address and it basically does the same? It's been there like for ages.
@vladzima some sites block the "+" sign as not valid for an e-mail address. Also, others usually remove the post-sign part and get your real e-mail address. This is good because it hides your real account - there's no way to tell it for sure.
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@tiagocesar Blocking all @mailhero.com addresses would be easy knowing the sole purpose of the service is to hide the real e-mail address.
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@parasight ...And Throttle is paid. OK, good point.
@sucrose@tiagocesar@mailhero But why would you? They'll still receive your emails unless you spam them. Blocking all Mailhero addresses would just reduce your conversion with no real benefit (if you're a legit).
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Whoops! Looks like all assets on the main page are throwing server errors!
@connor_stuff It looks like my poor lite VPS which handles the web (not the mail!) can't quite take the load from both being Product Hunt'ed and Hacker News'ed at the same time... It should be up now though!
@tiagocesar@connor_stuff Thank you, I guess you could say that. I was taken completely by surprise when I got up in the morning and then realized that my little webapp had gotten so much publicity in a short while. I must admit that it feels really great so many people seems to like the service. :)
@falkjosef It definitely helps in avoiding spam! But Let's say I sign up for a Credit card from Citibank, & after a point transnational mails are sent to that account. How secure is it ??
@divakarpranav Good question! Short answer: yes! Long answer: you should never trust e-mail when it comes to really sensitive data like credit card numbers and the likes. This certainly goes for gmail too!
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Wait, so if someone wants to spam me, all they have to do is recognize the @mailher.io domain and remove everything preceding the period, and then I can no longer prevent their emails from being forwarded? Doesn't seem like very pervasive protection. :(
@taylorbanks@mailhero I just added a feature which let's you block any mail to the main account as well (the one without an alias, in my case joe@mailhero.io). Hope that helps! Feel free to check it out.
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Awesome! I've been using Gishpuppy for the same purpose, but development on that kinda stalled because the developer wasn't able to raise enough funds from the users to work on it further. Which is a precarious position for me because I've signed up to SO MANY services using my Gishpuppy addresses. If Gish goes offline someday, it'll be near impossible for me to recover all those accounts.
What's your plan for powering this service sustainably in the future, given that email-sending costs are close to, but are not, zero?
Would be great if there was a possibility to add another 'main email'. I'd like to give something.firstname@mailhero to humans & kfiefwe.xlmnz@mailhero to machines.
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This looks neat but for testing and QA purposes mailinator.com takes some beating.
From the sole point of view that you don't have to setup any addresses *before* using them - they just exist so whatever you pick is already there @mailinator.com wih no signup or passwords.
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