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Comment by Duke on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 24, 2025 04:59 PM)
For Apple email users, the more effective way than the one you mentioned is creating your own: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-and-manage-...
Comment by David Adams on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 21, 2025 05:02 AM)
For Apple uses, there's Hide My Email. Those addresses are quite random and do not identify the originating address....
Comment by Joyce Baskind on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 21, 2025 03:29 AM)
Is there a solution for AOL Mail that doesn’t require a third party company?...
Comment by Jos on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 09:11 PM)
I created quite a number of gmail accounts, which I use as aliases. I have set up these accounts to forward all incoming mail to my primary e-mail acc...
Comment by Doug W. on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 06:49 PM)
My real primary email address is already being used for roughly 450 sites (I've had the same email address forever). I'm not sure it is worth my time ...
Comment by Dave McC on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 06:48 PM)
Bad Link - The "Firefox Relay" link goes to a "we couldn't find the file you asked for. . ."...
Comment by Greybeard on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 06:11 PM)
What Sam said. For 25+ years I've owned a domain and used a global forwarder to one of my mailboxes, and specific forwards to others. My domain provi...
Comment by Sam on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 06:00 PM)
I don't understand how the Gmail aliases are effective. Since the algorithm is known, anyone can simply delete the +keyword and know your address. I ...
Comment by michael on Does Your Inbox Need an Alias? (November 20, 2025 05:51 PM)
I use outlook, so if I use an alias, does that mean I have to go to all the sites and subscriptions and delete my real address and then change all my ...
Comment by Misterfish on Hit the Windows RESET Button? Read this first... (November 13, 2025 08:28 PM)
A few months ago a Windows 10 update royally screwed up my OS (thank you MS) so my options were reset or spend hours rebuilding the OS - or install a ...
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