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Piggybacking off the selfhosting email post earlier, does anyone have experience self hosting anon addy? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'd really like to use the service and in fact I wish I'd been using it forever. But I want to do it right and self host it. It's just, maybe the most complicated thing I've ever seen.

Does it require self hosting your own email server as well? If you already own a domain, does that make the process easier?

is Anon Addy the only service like this? Also I'd love to integrate with bitwarden, so when I create a new account for some website, I can automatically create a new email address. (idk if there's any reason to do this, just think it could be cool)

To piggyback further, I've been wondering if having my own domain would help me get around my double nat issue not allowing me to make reverse proxies.

Thanks in advance to the community!

Edit:

I think I have a solution! Bitwarden actually has these integrations already and it's relatively new. duckduck go just doesn't work. I tried forwardemail and that site is filled with dark patterns so you think the free account is worth a damn until you're already invested time into setting it up. At the last minute it tells you you can't use it with bitwarden on the free account. The others are at least up front about their pricing. forwardemail.net doesn't even have a pricing page. Sending emails from the masked addresses is also paywalled. pretty much all functionality on forwardemail.net is paywalled, but they hide it from you the best they can, so fuck that company.

I spoke too soon. There's no option that isn't paid. So I guess back to self hosting anonaddy

Edit: I finally got duckduckgo email working with bitwarden integration. It now generates a random email for me automatically!

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[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god, yeah. I personally would not try to self host e-mail or any service that you need other people to be able to reliably connect to without a static IP. As to losing power... In theory mail servers are supposed to queue mail and resend later, and you can also set up a backup MX that will queue mail for you (senders will automatically switch to the backup mail server if they cannot connect to your primary one). There are even free services for backup MX http://www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/free_mx_backup_service.html (though they use this to train spam filters, so if you have privacy concerns you may want to avoid it). In the past I have had some prolonged downtime on my mail server and I have noticed that some senders will give up entirely and never send to that address anymore (which I think is poor form on their part, especially since somebody could register that email account later). I've since setup my own backup MX to avoid these issues, and it's worked great when my primary has had network issues (needed a spare box for backup nameserver and stuff anyway, haha).

You absolutely can use an external mail service as a catchall with your own domain. For instance protonmail has support for this:

https://proton.me/support/catch-all

You'd have to look into the pricing and read the fine print, though. A lot of mail providers charge per inbox and I'm not sure if they'd charge extra for catchall services or not.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Appreciate your input :)

Proton mail allows catchall with a paid plan, the least expensive of which is about $4/mo. They have an excellent reputation. But then there's fastmail which is like, all of this batteries included, including bitwarden integration for auto creating the email aliases. And it's cheaper. Well, guess I've got some research to do. Thanks for the guidance, you're really helpful :)