<story><title>Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service</title><url>https://github.com/fterh/heimdall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>This is a really cool project, so I don&amp;#x27;t mean to be overly negative, but personally this workflow feels quite a bit more laborious than just having a catch-all email address. Before signing up for a service, I need to email myself to get an address to use for the service?&lt;p&gt;I have all emails for my domain route to me, so when I use a service I just do [service-name]@my-domain.com. If a bad actor gets a hold of it I set up an inbox filter or black hole the email address at the service level. The big advantage of this project seems to be that you can reply, but I&amp;#x27;ve found that a huge proportion of these email aliases are inbound only for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using GSuite for my personal email but I&amp;#x27;ve been considering Fastmail. Just checked and it looks like they also support sending from those catchall aliases: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;receive&amp;#x2F;alias-catchall.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;receive&amp;#x2F;alias-catchall.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btmiller</author><text>Totally agreed, I do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; want to manage my own workflow in a manner like this. I actually just put a doc together[1] last month for anyone looking to do the same through providers that support this workflow.&lt;p&gt;The one killer feature that is missing in Fastmail right now is the ability to reply to email as the same alias it was received as. I.e. if Airbnb support emails me at airbnb@mydomain.com, it&amp;#x27;ll default replay as me@mydomain.com unless I go manually setup the airbnb alias.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;btmiller.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;regain-control-over-your-inbox-by-rejecting-email-with-a-custom-domain-wildcard-and-aliases.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;btmiller.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;regain-control-over-your-inb...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service</title><url>https://github.com/fterh/heimdall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>This is a really cool project, so I don&amp;#x27;t mean to be overly negative, but personally this workflow feels quite a bit more laborious than just having a catch-all email address. Before signing up for a service, I need to email myself to get an address to use for the service?&lt;p&gt;I have all emails for my domain route to me, so when I use a service I just do [service-name]@my-domain.com. If a bad actor gets a hold of it I set up an inbox filter or black hole the email address at the service level. The big advantage of this project seems to be that you can reply, but I&amp;#x27;ve found that a huge proportion of these email aliases are inbound only for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using GSuite for my personal email but I&amp;#x27;ve been considering Fastmail. Just checked and it looks like they also support sending from those catchall aliases: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;receive&amp;#x2F;alias-catchall.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;receive&amp;#x2F;alias-catchall.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re going to get an astronomical amount of junk mail with a catchall email address. Google is great at filtering spam, but not perfect. If you&amp;#x27;re running your own mail server, you&amp;#x27;re going to have a hard time dealing with it, even if you use SpamAssassin and other tools. It&amp;#x27;s also going to get worse over time, because every address that accepts delivery is going to get added to a database for future spamming.&lt;p&gt;I use Postfix and ViMbAdmin to manage my whitelist via a simple web UI, and I don&amp;#x27;t find it to be onerous. I don&amp;#x27;t sign up for new services every day, and it takes about ten seconds to add or delete a service-specific alias.</text></comment>