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Aliases: a different address for everything

Your real email address is like your home address - you don't give it to every stranger who asks. Aliases let you hand out a fresh address for every shop, app and newsletter, while everything still lands in your one encrypted inbox.

The basics

What is an alias?

An alias is a real, working email address that delivers straight to your inbox. It sends and receives like any other address - the site you give it to can't tell the difference, because there is no difference.

The difference is on your side: each alias is a separate identity you control. You can name it, watch what arrives on it, reply from it, and - the important bit - switch it off the moment it outlives its welcome. Your real address stays reserved for humans you actually want to hear from.

Aliases live inside your encrypted mailbox, so everything that arrives on one gets the same zero-access treatment as the rest of your mail. Creating one takes two clicks in settings - no new account, no new password, nothing extra to manage.

  • A real address, not a forwarding trick bolted on afterwards
  • Delivers to your existing inbox - no second mailbox to check
  • Reply from the alias, so your real address is never exposed
  • Disable or delete an alias in one click when it turns spammy
  • Same end-to-end encryption and zero-access storage as all your mail
  • Filters and folders can sort by alias automatically
How to use aliases

Three steps to a quieter inbox

1

One alias per signup

New shop? New app? Free wifi wanting an email address? Mint a fresh alias for each one - name it after them so you never forget who got what. Two clicks, done.

2

Receive as normal

Everything lands in your one inbox, tagged with the alias it arrived on. Order confirmations, receipts, the lot - nothing changes about how you read your mail.

3

When one leaks, bin it

Spam arriving on the alias you gave to exactly one retailer? Now you know precisely who sold you out - or got breached. Disable that alias and the spam stops dead. Your other addresses never knew it happened.

Why use aliases

Six things aliases quietly fix

Control spam at the source

Spam filters guess; aliases don't have to. Kill the leaked address and that entire spam stream stops - permanently, not until the spammers rotate senders.

Spot the leaker

When junk arrives on the alias only one company ever had, the culprit identifies itself. Several of our users have caught "we take your privacy seriously" companies red-handed this way.

Blunt phishing attempts

If "your bank" writes to the alias you gave a shoe shop, you know instantly it's a scam. Aliases give every message a context - and phishers can't fake context they never had.

Share an address safely

Posting an address on a website, a flyer or a marketplace listing? Use an alias. Scrapers can harvest it all they like - the day it turns noisy, it dies, and you carry on.

Send as the alias

Replies go out from the alias, not your real address. The conversation stays consistent on their side, and your primary address stays out of their database.

Aliases on your own domain

Own yourname.com? Make aliases like hi@yourname.com or shop@yourname.com. Custom domains are included on every paid plan - setup is guided and takes minutes.

The obvious question

Why not just use +tags?

Gmail-style plus-addressing (you+shop@gmail.com) is better than nothing, and we support it too. But it's a naming convention, not protection - and everyone on the receiving end knows the trick.

Plus-addressing

  • Plenty of signup forms simply reject any address containing a +
  • Anyone can strip the +tag and recover your real address - it's right there
  • Data brokers normalise +tags automatically, so "different" addresses get linked straight back to you
  • You can't turn a +tag off - mail to it keeps arriving forever

Real aliases

  • A normal-looking address that every form accepts
  • No visible link to your real address - nothing to strip
  • Each alias stands alone; nobody can join them up from the outside
  • Disable an alias and mail to it stops. Your choice, enforced by the server
Good questions

Aliases, honestly answered

How many aliases do I get?
Essential includes 10 aliases - plenty for most people's shops and newsletters. Plus and Family include unlimited aliases, so you can genuinely use one per signup without ever counting. Compare plans.
Can I send email from an alias?
Yes. When you reply to a message that arrived on an alias, it goes out from that alias by default, and you can pick any of your aliases in the From field when composing. The recipient never sees your primary address.
What happens to mail sent to a disabled alias?
It's rejected at our door - the sender gets a standard delivery failure, and nothing reaches your inbox or counts against your storage. If you disabled it by mistake, re-enable it any time and delivery resumes; the address is yours either way and is never given to anyone else.
Are aliases as private as my main address?
Yes - an alias is just another door into the same zero-access mailbox, so everything arriving on it is encrypted identically. One honest note: an alias protects your address, not your identity. If you give a shop your name and home address for delivery, they know who you are regardless. For checkout situations, that's what Scroogle Relay is for.
Every plan includes aliases: 10 on Essential, unlimited on Plus and Family. See what else each plan includes.

Give every stranger a different address.

One encrypted inbox, as many identities as you need, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing exactly who leaked your address - the first time it happens.

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