Emailias mail forwarding service has closed

John_Gray

Apologies for this thread, which will be of no interest whatever to most members - but considerable interest to a very few!

It seems that Emailias closed on 5th November, with no notification to most of its users. The only thread I can find with information about this closure appears to be here. Let's hope any user took the option to download a spreadsheet of their alias names in the recent past...

Mr_Sark

This affected me. No warning, so didn't get a chance to download the spreadsheet.

I'm currently trying to find an alternative.

John_Gray

The closest service to Emailias seems to be Spamex - but there doesn't seem to have been any work done on that service for about the last seven years! However, nothing much happened on Emailias for a good three or four years, either. There seems no possible way of guaranteeing the continuing existence of such a service, which is what the user really wants. Fortunately I had downloaded the spreadsheet of Emailias aliases at the end of October.

If you don't mind Gmail, there's a neat trick where you can add information in the 'local part' of the email address, like
my.name+amazon@gmail.com
[EMAIL="my.name+argos@gmail.com"]my.name+argos@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="my.name+pcworld@gmail.com"]my.name+pcworld@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
(yes, the third email address is a joke!) and emails to these addresses are sent to your standard address:
my.name@gmail.com
This might assist?

Mr_Sark

John_Gray wrote: »

The closest service to Emailias seems to be Spamex - but there doesn't seem to have been any work done on that service for about the last seven years! However, nothing much happened on Emailias for a good three or four years, either. There seems no possible way of guaranteeing the continuing existence of such a service, which is what the user really wants. Fortunately I had downloaded the spreadsheet of Emailias aliases at the end of October.

If you don't mind Gmail, there's a neat trick where you can add information in the 'local part' of the email address, like
my.name+amazon@gmail.com
[EMAIL="my.name+argos@gmail.com"]my.name+argos@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="my.name+pcworld@gmail.com"]my.name+pcworld@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
(yes, the third email address is a joke!) and emails to these addresses are sent to your standard address:
my.name@gmail.com
This might assist?

Thanks. I don't want to to give out my gmail address, so I've signed up for fastmail, and created an alias (to protect my main fastmail username). I'm going to use the plus method for my alias address, but re-direct all mail to gmail.

I figure that I can always filter out any address that starts to attract spam (from fastmail).

Not ideal, but there aren't many other options apart from using temporary address sites like spammotel, trashmail etc.

I am wondering whether somebody has bought the emailias service, but didn't want to support previous subscribers, hence the service shutdown. I'm still very annoyed at losing all my information.

John_Gray

Mr_Sark wrote: »

I am wondering whether somebody has bought the emailias service, but didn't want to support previous subscribers, hence the service shutdown. I'm still very annoyed at losing all my information.

I had renewed for another year on 15 October, with another 14 days to go of the current annual subscription. I would say that accepting a subscription, knowing that no service was to be provided after the first six days of a year, could be described as fraudulent...

And I'm not sure how much faith people could put in any new owners of Emailias, if it is decided to set up the service again.