Documentation

An alias is a throwaway email address that forwards to your real one. You give the alias to a shop, a forum, a landlord. If it starts getting spam, you delete it, and your real address never appears anywhere.

That is the whole idea. Everything below is detail.

Start here

• What an alias actually is, including what happens to a message on its way to you
• Making your first alias
• Forwarding or inbox: the one decision that changes how everything else behaves
• Your account number, which we cannot recover for you and which you should write down now

Then

• Replying, and the strange-looking address you reply from
• Blocking, disabling, deleting
• Keeping hundreds of aliases organised
• Rules
• Reviewing what you have, once you have too many to hold in your head

Your own domain

• Setting one up
• Catch-all and subdomains

Advanced

• Sending from a real mail client
• The API
• PGP

Privacy

• What we store
• The private inbox
• How long things are kept

Comparisons

• Aliases vs the plus sign
• vs Apple Hide My Email
• vs Firefox Relay
• vs DuckDuckGo Email Protection
• vs disposable mail, which is a different product that people keep confusing us with

Looking for the answers to "can you read my mail" and "what if you shut down"? Those are on the questions page.

Something here wrong or missing? Tell us. These pages live in the same repository as the code, so a correction is a one-line change.