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Addy.io with MxRoute?
Thanks to deals thread, I got MxRoute subscription with plenty of idle VPS and some domains. I was wondering if it would be possible to use Addy.io self hosted with MxRoute subscription?
My aim is to not deal with hassle of hosting my own email server (which MxRoute comes to help) and also use some random aliases (which Addy.io does) to prevent my main email address to get spammed.
Thanks!
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Sounds like it just forwards email, so it’s unrelated, you’d just forward it to whatever email address you set up at mxroute.
Be aware that if you ever reply to such an email, you lose anonymity.
Edit: be aware that the most useful place to do spam filtering is at the edge, where you accept mail from ransoms, so using a forwarder like this makes your spam filtering worse (for those addresses). Fine if it’s disposable small-number-of-use addresses, but not great if one of them becomes one you use a lot.
Nice idea, I thought to do the same. I think the point of addy and simplelogin is exactly that, you never use the same one. As soon as you notice the first spam email, you can delete that alias.
Do you want disposable email addresses?
Why not just use MXRoute with a catch-all?
Say your main account is [email protected]... Create this and then use a catch-all to have all email (*@domain.com) delivered to the [email protected] mailbox.
Eg. When you sign up for Amazon, you use the email [email protected]. all email sent to this address ends up in your primary mailbox like usual.
Lets say one day, Amazon gets compromised and your email is spammed hourly...
Change your Amazon contact email address on their site. Then blackhole any mail sent to the [email protected] address.
I did a similar setup myself, but I'm hosting SimpleLogin instead. The key to this setup is https://www.fetchmail.info/, which can forward your catch-all inbox in MXRoute to your addy.io/SimpleLogin server, or even any SMTP compatible server. I have fetchmail on a cronjob every 30 seconds, which pulls any new emails and sends it to SL - runs perfectly.
Best advice for leveraging their spam filtering. Also if you adopt a pattern to the addresses you use, e.g. always include an underscore or period, then you can set a filter in your mailbox to reject or refile common speculative e-mail with just alphanumerics, e.g. those to accounts@, info@, sales@, jane@, john@, qoytnsvthkgj@ etc. etc.
[email protected] in format like this. Than just block all emails to that address in case of spam.
Not if you do it right. Replies come from the same email alias.
I recently moved from Simplelogin self-hosted to Addy self-hosted. Email is relayed through MXRoute. The reason of the switching was
In short, I am running Addy using MxRoute as a relay. I switched from SimpleLogin because it was easier to setup, maintain & in case of disaster recovery, it will be lot easy.
so we can use addy with mxroute and no need to setup all things related to mails right?
Still need to receive emails on the server.
So you need to setup mail server?
To the best of my knowledge, MXRoute lacks this functionality in the way it is now native to NameCrane. I'd be curious to know if jar has any interest in building this in. That way, customers could skip the third parties (ie, Addy.io and SimpleLogin) or the hassle of self hosting for aliases.