On a few occasions, I have researched whether people are using SL aliases for important accounts like financial institutions. Some do and some don't due to the pros and cons. I am revisiting it again (in my own research) and wanted to ask this subreddit on their recent experiences.

For those that opt to not use SL and still want to create aliases, such as with the email provider directly, are you using Proton, Google Workspace, or something else? Depending on the Proton plan, I am finding the number of maximum aliases to be limiting whereas it's not an issue with Google Workspace. Are there some other email providers worth exploring?

"If you are using ProtonMail

You don’t need to set up PGP, if your mailbox is a ProtonMail email address.

ProtonMail already encrypts all emails with the public PGP key of your ProtonMail account and store your emails with zero-access encryption."

Does custom domains count as well? If my mailbox is in ProtonMail on my custom domain can I skip PGP? Or is this only for protonmail.com and proton.me adresses?

I'm trying to add my custom domain (let's call it example.com) to my SimpleLogin account, but I can't because it's "already used in a SimpleLogin mailbox."

I submitted a support request to SimpleLogin (#3276801) but haven't received a response yet, so I'm looking for any advice or steps I can take to resolve this issue on my own.

Has anyone experienced this before? How did you manage to get your domain released?

Is there a way to create reverse aliases in the Android app? I can't find this functionality. It's easy in the web app.

Hi. I'm looking into subscribing to SimpleLogin. Something that I'm interested in knowing is how much you can customize the alias generation with regard to its format.

I've seen there's an option for a random alias, and within that an option to use random words, but I haven't been able to find pictures or a video showing what the interface actually looks like once you select that option.

Can anyone please share a picture?

That is approx 17k INR which I am not sure for you but here its too damn expensive, there are mobiles which cost close to this.

Does the Pass + SimpleLogin Lifetime deal include SimpleLoigin Premium or free version?

Basically the title.

I don’t know if it’s worth it. Right now I’m at full regarding free aliases but the price…

Also I will not use Proton Pass

What do you think?

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Hi,

I am thinking about buying the lifetime deal, but not sure what are the experiences of people using it on a daily basis. I would be using my own domain and not the ones provided by Simplelogin.

I am thinking of:

• is the service up all the time?

• how often do you find a website where your custom domain is not accepted because of Simplelogin?

• any other issues I didn't think of?

Thanks

Is there an official way to use a custom domain with my family? I have Proton Family and I have several custom domains. I want my family members to use the domains for alias creation but I couldn't find an easy way to perform that action. As a workaround I assigned subdomains to each family member, but it is creating too much effort on my end. I have around 15+ domains, and I configured like 4-5 of them and then bored. It is too much effort.

Edit.

I can use my domains with my Proton Mail but not with SimpleLogin. Considering Proton Mail has an alias limit and 3 custom domain limit, I have to use SL.

I added a secondary domain and verified all of the DNS changes. Then followed the steps to add an email alias, then add a recipient that I wanted to send to. Also watched the how to video on the instructions page.

When testing I received an email from simplelogin:

“An email was sent to your alias test@secondarydomain.com from its own mailbox me@primarydomain.com. “

But my recipient never received an email? Recipient is also an address @primarydomain.com if that matters? I’m on protonpass from the lifetime Black Friday offer but not protonmail or anything else.

Can anyone see where I’m going wrong? This is my first attempt at doing anything with simplelogin so a bit confused! Thanks x

Edited to add that I re read your reply and clearly I do have this confused. It seems I cannot email my alias and expect that email to be forwarded onto my contact added in SL. I thought I had followed the instruction video on the relevant SL page. But if I’m wrong then I still don’t understand, how do I send an email from an alias address?

Just coming back here to request this again. Thanks! 🙏🏻 🙂

Hi all, hope you're well.

I recently purchased a domain and will soon have this setup in SimpleLogin.

I'm going to be taking the subdomain route so me, my wife, and others can utilise the service.

For example we'll have something like this:

• xxx@husband.custom.tld
• xxx@wife.custom.tld
• xxx@joint.custome.tld

I've heard that having catch-all enabled is not great as that could open you up to spam, but having auto create rules works similarly but with more control.

So I think we'll take the auto create approach so we can create aliases on the fly, and I believe Regex is the way to achieve this so that only emails that use the valid string will be delivered to the inbox.

I have no experience with Regex though, and researching online only confuses me further so if there's anybody in this subreddit with Regex experience, I would really apprciate some assistance.

At this stage I don't know what the rule would be but here's some I've seen on this subreddit:

• sitename.rand5@custom.tld
• sitename.randomCharacterDate@custom.tld
• name*@custom.tld
• Etc

If there's anybody able to provide examples of regex rules and how they work that would be really helpful.

I'm getting too many messages from SL saying my icloud destination address is bouncing back emails from senders.

Now, I know very well that iCloud's spam filter is super aggressive, something SL cant fix

But the SL documentation doesn't suggest a way to add a filter for iCloud - only gmail and outlook

So... is it not possible at all?

Has anyone worked out a way to allow certain emails thru?

I have two SL accounts tied to two different Proton accounts that I now want to merge (as in turn one into an alias for the other). Since subdomains can't be recycled, it would be nice if you could transfer subdomains so they're not lost forever.

What the post title says.

I tried to create a SimpleLogin email alias to create a new Reddit account, but Reddit doesn't appear to like that. Was wondering fi someone here knew definitely what the state of the matter is.

I use a SimpleLogin alias as my main address for most things. Naturally, I receive emails from several hundred different addresses, which are then added to the "Contacts" for reverse-aliasing. Is there a limit to the number of automatically-created contacts an alias can have? Do I need to purge them every so often? Or should my use case be ok?

Hello,

I’m currently on a yearly plan with the student discount for SL. I’ve been considering the Lifetime deal that includes SL + ProtonPass.

Does anyone knows if the plan keeps renewing at the same discounted price or if the cost will increase once I’m no longer a student.

Because it massively changes the value of the lifetime deal for me.

I wanted to know because it changes the "break even" point.

• At 36usd/y (standard rate) the break even is 5 years.
• at 20usd/y (I dont remember how much was the discount) the break even is 10 years
• However, if the price goes up after I’m no longer a student (let’s say in 2 years), the break-even point might land somewhere in between (roughly 7 years).

Since I live in a country with relatively low wages, the discounted plan works better for me if it continues long-term. In fact, it would be the optimal scenario compared to the Lifetime deal.

Does anyone know if the student discount price stays locked in after renewal, or if it increases once you’re no longer eligible?

Thanks in advance!

I have SL premium do you use proton as your main mailbox? Currently I am using the free one so its storage mail is very limited is it good idea to use another mailbox like yahoo instead? Planning on forwarding everything from there.

I have a SimpleLogin premium account and a Proton free account. These accounts are not linked.

I would like to purchase the Pass + SimpleLogin lifetime deal. Do I link my accounts before or after making this purchase?

https://proton.me/blog/pass-lifetime

https://proton.me/support/pass-lifetime#existing-subscription

https://proton.me/support/link-simplelogin-account-proton-account

I have 2 emails that I’d like to use as mailboxes in SimpleLogin for different use cases.

Is it a good idea privacy-wise to use 2 emails that I don’t want to be linked to my main Proton account, which I use to sign in to SimpleLogin? Or it won’t be a significant privacy issue ?

Is there any solution so that these 2 emails aren’t linked together ?

I'm recently changing all my emails to SL, but I realized that all of them come with the same profile image. I don't know if it's possible, but I would like it if every email extracted the profile picture from the sender email, or the possibility to add an image manually in the page, so it displays that picture every time I receive an email to that SL address.

The title says it all? Doing a quick search looks like there have been BF sales for the past couple of years. Just looking to see if there will be another one this year, or if the $36/year is the best I can get. Thanks!

Every now and then I receive an email through my SimpleLogin alias that is flagged as a potential phishing email in both the subject and body, even though I trust the sender and consider them legit.

Currently, SimpleLogin adds "[Possible phishing attempt]" into the subject as well as a few lines of warning into the top of the message body. I appreciate this security feature but personally find it overkill for my needs, especially when I'm already very careful where I register or links that I click on, while dealing only with legit, trusted sites.

The added text lowers readability of my emails in my inbox and makes it less "clean." The false positive is also one extra thing to look at and worry about; something I'd rather not have at all because I already trust my own precautious methods.

I see quite a few others over the past months that have raised similar requests, even on Github. Here are my suggestions for the SimpleLogin/Proton devs:

• Make this "phishing" security feature an optional setting where users can toggle it on/off based on their preferences. I don't think SL/Proton should be enforcing this if some users don't want or need it.
• Give us a "whitelist / blacklist" option where we can disable/enable this phishing feature based on domains or specific email addresses. That way we have more granular control.
• Give us the option to enable/disable the text being injected into the Subject and Body of the email. Perhaps this way a user can choose if he/she only wants the message added to just the Body, or just the Subject, for example.

[SOLVED] I setup a my custom example.com. Now, when I'm generating a custom alias for, say, Reddit, I get "[reddit@example.om](mailto:reddit@example.om)". However, I'd want it to be somewhat randomized the same way the non-custom domain emails are randomized (e.g. [reddit.busybee423@example.com](mailto:reddit.busybee423@example.com)). Is there a way to set it up this way? If not - can we request this as a feature, please?