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Aliases

Four ways to create an alias

The dashboard, the browser extension, on the fly, and the API.

From the dashboard

Press create. You can let us generate the name, or type your own local part. A custom local part gets a few random characters appended, for example newsletter.a1b, so that an address cannot be guessed from the name alone.

From the browser extension

The extension puts a button next to the email field on a signup form. One click creates the address, fills the field and records which site it belongs to. It is the fastest of the four and the one most people end up using. See The browser extension.

On the fly, by just using one

On your personal subdomain and on any domain you own, an address exists the first time somebody writes to it. Give out october-sale@yourname.skudo.org without creating anything, and the alias appears in your dashboard when the first message arrives.

This is the catch-all behaviour, and it can be turned off. See Addresses you never created.

From the API

A token and one HTTP request. Useful for scripts, password managers and anything that already knows it needs a fresh address. See Tokens and the API.

Choosing how generated names look

Generated addresses can be random characters, a UUID, random words, a random noun, or a random first name. The setting is under Alias generation and applies to what you create from then on.

Random words read as human and survive being spoken aloud. A UUID is unmistakably machine made, which is sometimes exactly what you want from a shop that asks for an address it has no business asking for.

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