AnonAddy: Protect Your Email and Aliases from Spammers

AnonAddy is short for "Anonymous Email Address", it is a self-hosted email server that allows you to create unlimited aliases and protect yourself from spammers.

With AnonAddy you can:

• Protect your real email address from spam by simply deactivating/deleting aliases that receive unsolicited emails
• Identify who has sold your data by using a different email address for every site
• Protect your identity in the event of a data breach by making it difficult for hackers to cross-reference your accounts
• Prevent inbox snooping by encrypting all inbound emails using GPG/OpenPGP encryption
• Update where emails are forwarded without having to go through and change your email address for each site individually
• Reply to forwarded emails anonymously without revealing your true email address.

Why you should consider using AnonAddy?

• Open source
• Self-hosted
• Bring your own GPG/OpenPGP key to encrypt your forwarded emails (and the option to replace subjects)
• No adverts
• No analytics or trackers (just server access logs)
• No third party content
• No limitation on the number of aliases that can be created
• Generous monthly bandwidth
• Multiple domains to choose for aliases (currently anonaddy.com, anonaddy.me and another 3 for paid plan users)
• Ability to generate random character and random word aliases at shared domains
• Ability to add additional usernames to compartmentalise aliases
• New features added regularly
• Open source browser extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
• Open source Android app that you can install from Play Store, and F-Droid.
• Open source iOS
• API access
• RayCast extension
• Support custom domains

Tech note

The app and server is written with PHP and Vue JavaScript Framework.

Software Requirements

• Postfix (3.0.0+) (plus postfix-mysql for database queries and postfix-pcre)
• PHP (8.0+) and the php-mailparse extension, the php-gnupg extension if you plan to encrypt forwarded emails, the php-imagick extension for generating 2FA QR codes
• Port 25 unblocked and open
• Redis (6.x+) for throttling and queues
• FQDN as hostname e.g. mail.anonaddy.me
• MariaDB / MySQL
• Nginx
• Rspamd
• DNS records - MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
• Reverse DNS
• SSL/TLS Encryption - you can install a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt.

License

The MIT License (MIT).

Resources

• Source code
• Website and web service