#Email management, especially for #privacy & #tech minded people, can be a very personal thing. I’ve been refining my email setup over the last couple of years and I think I’ve landed on a system that works well for me. I’m curious how others handle it.

My setup involves three separate email providers, #posteo.de, #tuta.com, and #riseup.net. I also use a custom domain combined with a paid #anonaddy (now just #addy) account.

Tuta is for strictly personal stuff like banking, medical, and government accounts. Secure, no aliases, separate app, fully contained.

For Posteo and Riseup, I use AnonAddy aliases for everything else. Mail forwarded from Addy is encrypted with my PGP keys and decrypted client-side, and both Posteo and Riseup use server-side encryption.

Posteo is for things I actually care about, online accounts, family, friends, etc. Riseup is for online shopping, newsletters, and more disposable accounts (zero inbox).

I’ll admit it’s a bit convoluted, but it makes sense to me and has worked well so far. I’ve considered simplifying it, and maybe I will one day. I don’t need three providers, but I like keeping things isolated.

Wow! I've just discovered that it's possible to use Secure Element as #u2f in GrapheneOS via hw-fido2-provider [1] (btw, thank you @S1m) in Vanadium even without any external token. Successfully added my Pixel smartphone as second factor device to my addy.io account. It works finally!

1. https://codeberg.org/s1m/hw-fido2-provider

#GrapheneOS #vanadium #vanadiumbrowser #fido2 #u2f #addyio #AnonAddy

"You are only able to send one [test email] per account"

#addyio is a joke! The one message I got through was flagged as spam anyway. If you are looking for an email forwarding service, avoid #AnonAddy like hell 😬

P.S. From their FAQ: "If you have a custom domain say example.com and you are already using it for email somewhere else e.g. ProtonMail or Namecheap then you cannot also use it simultaneously with addy.io."

Layer Zero // Privacy Tactic 05: Mask Your Identity — Use Alias Emails and Burner Accounts #LayerZero #PrivacyTactics #EmailAliases #BurnerAccounts #DigitalAnonymity #OnlinePrivacy #GhostIdentity #SimpleLogin #AnonAddy #FirefoxRelay #CyberGhosting #PrivacyFirst #Compartmentalization #MaskYourIdentity #SurveillanceEscape #DeadSwitch

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/03/26/layer-zero-privacy-tactic-05-mask-your-identity-use-alias-emails-and-burner-accounts/

New Thunderbird extension: Addy.io / AnonAddy for Thunderbird

I’ve just released a new Thunderbird extension, “Addy.io / AnonAddy for Thunderbird“, which provides easy access to Addy.io functionality when composing email messages in Thunderbird. The extension mostly automates the process of replacing the recipient addresses of your messages–when you want to–with proxy email addresses that route through Addy.io, so the recipients will see an Addy.io alias for you instead of your real email address which you’re trying to keep private.

As I recently wrote, I’ve switched over to using Addy.io as much as possible when giving out my email address. I wrote this extension because I’m a heavy Thunderbird and this makes it easier for me to keep my email address private when I need to send email messages to entities I don’t want to have my real address.

The extension lives on GitHub, and you can submit issues or suggestions there. If you find this extension useful, please consider donating to support its continued development and maintenance. It takes a lot of time and effort to create and maintain Thunderbird extensions, and support is always welcome and appreciated. You can donate through Liberapay or Patreon for recurring donations, or Paypal or Venmo for one-time donations.

#AddyIo #AnonAddy #privacy #Thunderbird