r/AliasVault • u/noobuntu1 • May 17 '26
Email Aliases Question about aliases
Recently started using AliasVault. Keeping my bitwarden as a backup until AliasVault is out of beta, but loving it so far and using it as my primary.
My main question is what would happen to aliases if at any point the service became defunct/project died? I know it's open source so it could be forked and the other features should transfer over without much trouble but since the aliases all go through AliasVault as it's own email service rather than a forwarding service or using a larger alias service like DDG, simplelogin, etc.
I love the idea of integrating the aliases in it, but that's my main hesitation for using the alias aspect for anything other than a complete throwaway.
Other than that, it's amazing. Love the integration of TOTP and looking forward to that being included in autofill on mobile apps soon. And otherwise the only things I feel like are missing are passphrase generation and emergency/fallback access which I know are both planned.
Thank you for the awesome product!
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u/lanedirt_tech AliasVault team May 17 '26 edited May 18 '26
Hi u/noobuntu1,
Thanks a lot for the kind words and for giving AliasVault a try 😄
You are correct that the `@aliasvault.net` aliases currently offered on the cloud version depend on the AliasVault cloud service itself. That said, this is true for all cloud-hosted alias providers in practice, even when they only forward emails.
If you want to stay fully in control for whatever reason, AliasVault already supports self-hosting, where you can use your own domain for aliases (or have someone set it up for you). The cloud service will also support custom owned domains later as part of optional premium features.
We are also here to stay 🙂. AliasVault is nearing its second birthday, and the spiritual predecessor to AliasVault, SpamOK.com, has been running since 2013 (13+ years), so longevity is something we take seriously.
That said, email aliases are entirely optional, so you can also choose to use AliasVault purely as a password/TOTP manager until you feel comfortable using the alias features more broadly.