Addy is an open-source anonymous email forwarding service designed to protect users’ real email addresses from exposure, spam, and tracking by letting them create and manage unlimited email aliases that forward to their primary inbox. Instead of giving out their real email address when signing up for services, users can create descriptive or random alias addresses that disguise their identity and keep their inbox clean by deactivating or deleting any alias that starts receiving unwanted emails. This service supports both standard aliases that can be created on the fly and pre-generated shared domain aliases, and self-hosters can also configure custom domains to use their own email domain for aliasing. AnonAddy allows encrypted forwarding using GPG/OpenPGP for enhanced privacy, making it especially attractive for security-conscious users who want to minimize metadata leakage.
Features
- Anonymous email alias creation and forwarding
- Unlimited alias support with customizable patterns
- GPG/OpenPGP encryption support for forwarded emails
- Custom domain aliasing capability
- Reply from alias without revealing real address
- API and browser extension integration