Github dislikes email “aliases” so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a “valid” email domain but also that you remove the “alias” email from the account completely.

Basically another email address that forwards everything to your main email.

How would they even detect that? Blacklist common alias providers?

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I dont think so. I get my self hosted aliases banned. They must read the dkim/spf/dmarc or other types of headers against a base of mainstream email providers

Wouldn’t that ban self hosted email period?

MBV ⚜️
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Depends on what header they read and how

I guess so

So a redirect instead of alias? E-mail alias is the address+alias@… thing.

Thats an extension

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Yeah let’s say you got joe@protonmail.com, on simplelogin you can make a joe123@aleeas.com and now sign up for services using aleeas with those emails being forwarded to your protonmail

Here’s an illustration

https://simplelogin.io/images/hero.svg

https://simplelogin.io/

What was this feature called again… basically linking, right?

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It’s called an email alias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_alias

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I thought that was a gmail specific thing.

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It is, an email alias is a redirect. They’ve just been calling plus codes aliases and didn’t know they were mixed up.

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