Well in essence because I've been tired of suffering with spam mail for 25 years, the logic that I use is:
You're asked for an email address, let's say by any ecommerce merchant/airline/bank/you name it!.
The merchant might:
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Suffer from a leak of your email address (typical) and then falls into the wrong hands.
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Have unethical practices and their unsubscribe button on their emails either won't work or they simply won't stop.
Me on the other hand would like to:
- Be able to stop the spamming on its tracks, no more regex editing.
- Be able to tell who leaked my info (and potentially decide to do something about it)
- Integrate with CPANEL (because it is easy to setup your own email)
- Have the ability to cross compile and install in my Mac, in my Linux Box and on my mobile phone (I have it working on a Mac and on an Android Phone)
- and most important of all, be able to create a custom email address (an alias) that I can create on the fly and not give away my real email address.
- Bonus tip, what I usually do is create an email address with the name of the [email protected] and let the forwarder send it to [email protected]
go build .
./emailalias
rename config/config.json.example to config/config.json then edit the values accordingly:
{ "cpanelAPIKey": "USERNAME:SOMEKEY", "cpanelHost": "cpanel.yourDOMAIN.com:2083", "defaultForwardersDomain": "domain1.com", "yourRealEmail":"[email protected]", "domains": ["domain1.com", "domain2.com"] }
Where the USERNAME:SOMEKEY are your cpanel username and the api key. You need to get those out of your cpanel admin console.
fyne package -os darwin -icon iconAlias.png
Then
Drag and drop to your Applications folder
I have cross compiled and created a Fyne Android App for my mobile phone.
Please refer to Fyne's Guide on packaging the App for Mobile.