Ask HN: Is there a Craigslist-style anonymized email forwarding service?

2 points by andjd 6y ago ↗ HN

Is there a Saas or open source tool that lets you add a craigslist-like anonymized email forwarding service to let users on a site email each other without publishing their real email address? I saw that a now-defunct service that did this called maskedmail, and I was wondering if there is anything comparable that exists now.

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LinuxBender 6y ago ↗

I don't have an answer for your question, as those sites come and go due to being abused. Someone else here may know of one, but I would not add business dependencies on it. Craigslist have teams dedicated to handling abuse.

An alternate method would be to have a forum that lets users send private messages each other so they don't even have to expose any email trails at all. A forum also gives you a place to quickly reach out to your most engaged users for announcements.