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[pdonis]

"Anonymous email forwarding" is probably a bad way to describe this service, since it is likely to make many people think (as it made me think) "isn't this just a more efficient tool for sending spam?".

What this really is is an easy way of setting up email aliases. I think that should be the tag line.

[willbrowning → pdonis]

Fair point, I'll try to emphasise the ease of alias creation instead going forward.

[55555 → pdonis]

Yeah but only geeks like us know about alias files

[pdonis → 55555]

I didn't mean email alias files. The article explains what it means by "email aliases", and it's something different.

[55555 → pdonis]

I meant the files that contain aliases which are used to configure MTAs, which thus create email aliases.

[pdonis → 55555]

Still not what either I or the article is talking about. Yes, the person designing the service has to know about alias files (or whatever other back end is being used), but the user doesn't have to know or care. I'm talking about what the user sees.

[willbrowning → 55555]

I actually use the database to store all the different aliases, then Postfix does a database lookup to see if they exist or not.

[thisone → pdonis]

quite. I was like "congratulations, you've made a spam, here's your blacklist"