Could you implement an email alias generator?

Hey @Mork,

Thank you for taking the time to suggest ways in which we can improve 1Password.

I can definitely see how adding this functionality would be beneficial to you. I have put in a request with our product team for consideration in a future update.

Please let us know if there is anything else we can help with at all.

ref: PB34031586

1Password already offers this, but only for Fastmail:

https://1password.com/fastmail/

This is the first time I've ever seen a new feature that I view as crucial. Identity Management via email aliases built in to the password manager is going to be so useful, I may (sorry to say) switch to NordPass. They have a $1/month, forever, promo going on through the end of July 2023. I will be further evaluating their product.

I understand that 1Password may never have this feature or it may be months or years before it's even considered. Thus, if you have specific timelines to implement this feature, I would need to know those. Otherwise, I would just consider this request one more on your request stack with an unknown priority (again, possibly never implemented).

Thanks,

Hey @Mork,

As @XIII has suggested we currently only support Fastmail for masked email but I agree that it would be great to expand this to other providers.

I have added this additional feedback onto the request that I have filed on your behalf by which the team will prioritise accordingly. I'm sorry that I can't provide any more information at this point.

Thank you for your understanding.

(Who uses Fastmail??? LOL)

I think you would need to implement your own email alias system for that like it appears Proton Pass has done. That way, it would work with any email since you control the alias. As I understand how this would work, you wouldn't need to expand to "other providers" if you handled the alias mapping internally at 1P.

In any case, it looks like I'll need to either use both email services (1P and NordPass) or switch to Proton Pass completely.

This identity management, now that I see it, is simply too important a feature to pass on.

Thanks,

Who uses Fastmail?

I do. Excellent product/service!

if you handled the alias mapping internally at 1P

Do you mean that 1Password then gets your email and forwards it to you(r mail provider)?

Seems like a serious privacy/security issue to me.

Using an authenticated API like Fastmail offers seems much better to me.

FastMail won't work for me at all.

Check out Proton Pass' implementation and I don't think you will be concerned about security/privacy -- much less so than with FastMail.

So, if you search for "FastMail Privacy Issues", I believe you'll be surprised. I can't believe 1Password uses this service.

For example: https://restoreprivacy.com/email/reviews/fastmail/

Thanks,

Compare the security of FastMail security to:

https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-security-model

Ah, Proton uses SimpleLogin (like 1Password uses Fastmail):

https://proton.me/support/pass-email-alias

SimpleLogin provides an API to manage email aliases, so 1Password could indeed implement this as well, if they want:

https://github.com/simple-login/app/blob/master/docs/api.md

PS: I think this is SimpleLogin only; not any provider?

Perhaps both solutions for aliases are equally flawed from a security standpoint. What I currently do is create an ALIAS (aka, "forwarder") on cPanel on my Linux server and that has worked well to weed out spammers. But since I really don't know what these third party services are doing in password managers, I (now) don't believe the email alias built into the password manager is that useful after all.

Enjoyed the conversation and your follow ups.

Thanks,