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The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

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7.1KGitHub stars
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The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

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Observed mentions: 2019-12-30 22:18:52 UTC to 2025-11-19 10:44:33 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
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fredmb·Nov 19, 2025Submission

Show HN: Fastmail.com masked email CLI tool

I generate a unique email alias for all web services that I sign up to, so I made a CLI tool to make it easy to instantly create or get an alias for a website. While I'm planning to eventually self-host anonaddy[1] or SimpleLogin[2], I'm currently happy with Fastmail.com's masked email feature[3]. 90% of my own usage consists of entering `masked_fastmail website.com`, which will get the alias for website.com or create one if it doesn't exist. The alias is automatically copied to clipboard. There's a GIF of how this works in the project README together with some more examples. The CLI tool is written in Go and is very simple. I've used it myself for almost 1 year now. I made some upgrades yesterday and wanted to share it here in case it's useful for someone else :) [1] https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy [2] https://github.com/simple-logi
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I see SimpleLogin mentioned in the replies several times, but I haven't seen anyone mention that you can use your own domain name with them to prevent vendor lock-in. You can also export your setup through their API so you can very easily migrate to a self-hosted instance if ever necessary: wget --header "Authentication: YOUR_API_KEY" https://app.simplelogin.io/api/export/aliases -o simplelogin-export-$(date +%s).csv And given the author talks about Have I Been Pwned, I feel I should mention that SimpleLogin has built-in HIBP integration (contributed by me in https://github.com/simple-login/app/pull/472)
In An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
Yes, was just going to comment this... Worth mentioning that its back-end app[1] is also open source, not just their Android[2] and iOS[3] apps. So basically open source + custom domain = no lock in. But I'm not so sure how easy it is to set up your own back-end server (I imagine it's like setting up your own email server, which isn't trivial) [1]: https://github.com/simple-login/app [2]: https://github.com/simple-login/Simple-Login-Android [3]: https://github.com/simple-login/Simple-Login-iOS
In You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses
If there are other Simple Login / free G Suite users, please upvote the github issue below. With Google providing a way to migrate from G Suite to a normal Gmail account, SL is considering adding SMTP access which would allow us to migrate an unlimited amount of user / domains over. This would provide a cheap way to forward / respond from our domain addresses while using a free Gmail address. https://github.com/simple-login/app/discussions/679
In Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts
SimpleLogin [1] already does that and their aliases are more powerful. It's also open-source [2], can be self-hosted, and covers almost all platforms. The Firefox relay seems to need SocketLabs [3], a paying and closed-source service. Haven't got my invite code yet but I would not bet on this Firefox service. [1] https://simplelogin.io [2] https://github.com/simple-login/app [3] https://www.socketlabs.com/
In Firefox Private Relay: Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses

Beta testers needed for open-source email forwarding service

Hi, We are building the first open-source and self-hostable `email alias` (or email forwarding) and `identity provider` service, called SimpleLogin (simplelogin.io) In terms of email forwarding, it works in a similar way to other solutions (33mail, anonaddy, spamex, mailcare, etc): all emails sent to an `email alias` are forwarded to your personal email address. We have some differences though: - Open-source and easy to self-host. The self-hosting is based on Docker and could be run on almost any Linux server. The hosting instruction is on our repository at https://github.com/simple-login/app - Generous free plan: there's no cap on bandwidth or number of replies/sends. The Free Plan is enough for protecting your personal email. Premium Plan targets at more "advanced" users with features like custom domain, unlimited alias or catch-all ali
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as. - Open Roadmap with some upcoming features: email directory, extension for Safari, mobile applications, etc. Feel free to check it out on https://trello.com/b/4d6A69I4/open-roadmap - Export your data: this tiny feature is actually missing in a lot of solution we tested. It allows you to change the service provider if someday you decide to leave SimpleLogin. The code source for the server is on https://github.com/simple-login/app and browser-extension at https://github.com/simple-login/browser-extension. Please let us know if you have any questions/feedbacks/critics. Thanks. SimpleLogin team.
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