AnonAddy: Protect Your Email and Aliases from Spammers
Anonymous email forwarding
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).
