Does anyone know of an email service that offers a large number of aliases -- not Fastmail?
I expect to pay.

For security & privacy I use many different email aliases on just one email account.
Each sender gets a unique email address so they can't track me for "marketing" or "hacking".
All incoming emails come into one InBox, so effortless to manage.

Has been working very well, but ...

Using Fastmail (20 years).
But Fastmail has a growing management problem.
I've seen the same problem at other companies many times over many years.
Always leads to big trouble.
So, I'm looking to replace Fastmail with some other email service that offers aliases.

I've searched.
Some email services do offer aliases, but only a few: 3-10.
Need hundreds; 500 at least.

I've looked into setting up a private, email server (such as on Digital Ocean).
But overhead too complex to make that worthwhile for just one person.

Or is there a better way to accomplish security & privacy in email addresses, other than using aliases?
(Not encryption or anything like that -- just aliases.)


Thank you.

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Note: The management problem at FastMail?
About five years ago they changed focus from email service to "diversity" and "virtue signalling" instead.
Always and everywhere that change leads to trouble in any product or service.
Can't predict when, but I don't want to be depending on FastMail when their troubles begin.

Hm, our business account with 1&1/Ionos allows us to (a) create unlimited e-mail addresses and (b) create aliases for those e-mail addresses (in some cases, we have lots). The e-mail addresses can also be simple redirects (i.e. not mailboxes), so effectively aliases. Their basic business accounts are not expensive, and it all works as it should. We’ve been with 1&1/Ionos for nearly two decades now, and are still very happy with the service (it’s even improved over the years!).

Thank you, MadaboutDana; I appreciate you posting a suggestion.

However, exactly the same problem there as at FastMail.

I'm still looking.

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If anyone prefers, I'm happy to discuss any aspect of this, privately, in email.
Here is an alias to contact me:

osforum_2021_09_30.larry@fastmail.fm

(But, please, don't try to get clever by taking back-bearings on that alias.
Just "Larry@fastmail.fm" is not me. )

mail.zoho.com/ is very powerful. As far as I know, there are no alias limits.

This is effectively what “Hide my email” does, but only for iCloud accounts

Fastmail now also has a "hide my email" thing which they call "Masked email". It's like a collaboration with 1Password which can automatically create Fastmail aliases from within 1Password, pretty much the same way iCloud Hide my Email works (Of course you'd need to subscribe both services..)

https://www.fastmail.com/1password/

Problem solved:

And thank you, mkasu.

Just yesterday, Fastmail announced a new feature, "masked emails".
Very easy to use.

Here is a masked email I created with the new Fastmail feature:
sunny.joy0898@fastmail.com
The only place I'll use that mask is on this forum.
If you want to try it, I'll send back a confirming reply.


Larger lesson learned:

In my opening post on this topic, I defined the problem as "email aliases".
That's correct, but not precise.
When I searched "email aliases", few helpful results.

The function is better known as "masked email".
And a fresh search for that returned many useful hits.

I hope this information is useful to others here.

Here is another service that offers masked email aliases:

https://33mail.com

33mail is much easier to use than FastMail's "masked address", which I wrote about above.

With FastMail must create a masked address BEFORE using it.
Not difficult, but annoying if you used masked emails a lot.

But with 33mail, just type in any email "on the fly" and that alias will be created when the first email to that alias is received.
So easy.

If you want to try it, here is a masked email address to me:

OutlinerForum@mailbox34.33mail.com

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Note 1:
I typed "OutlinerForum", then used a macro in Keyboard Maestro to enter the rest.

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Note 2:
33mail is not an email send-recieve service.
Can not read or compose emails there.
Still need a regular email service to do that.
33mail just makes masked email a lot easier.
And it can add masked emails to any other email service that doesn't offer masking.