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Discussion on: How to receive inbound email with PHP

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Alex Yatsenko

Thank you for your comment.
Not really.
I call it old-fashioned because most people use email addresses straight from that services. This article is not about selling ProxiedMail as a new approach to mailing, but I'm not a fan of it. Using email addresses like @gmail.com and @protonmail.com makes it impossible to migrate fast and doesn't improve your privacy.
Meanwhile, using ProxiedMail as your email address that forwards all your incoming emails to the old-fashioned email:

  1. Make your a second password. Because it's unique and has the same strength as a password if it was generated automatically.
  2. Make your way of migrating to another real email provider much easier as you going to just change the forwarding address.

ProxiedMail is a perfect tool to be in the middle as we committed to never be affiliated with any email provider. Also, we never block your accounts as Google does for example.
After 4 years of using ProxiedMail, I feel naked and insecure when for some reason I have to provide my gmail address somewhere.

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Lauri Ojansivu

When managing my own domains at CloudFlare, it's possible to setup forwarding addresses.

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Alex Yatsenko

Yeah, but I don't know if you can create as many proxy emails as you want and if it's easy to access and search by as we provide on ProxiedMail.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to convince a lot of people to use it but I like the approach of creating a dedicated email for a special requestor(i.e. website). Then you can access it easily on your device and search by description or where it was used.
Not sure if we're still talking about receiving emails in PHP haha

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Lauri Ojansivu

What is URL to public repo of serverside PHP code?

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Alex Yatsenko

Unfortunately, It's not open source yet. I have to do some work before it goes to be public. The estimated release for the public is September 2024.