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October 30, 2022
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Creating masked emails in the app?

  • October 30, 2022
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I started using Fastmail and the masked emails feature. It works great, until it doesn’t. If I can’t get the safari extensions to show the create masked email option (usually from poor website design), the only other option is to sign into Fastmail and create one from there and then I have to go back to 1Password to input it to there and then finally back to the website.

Why is there no way from within the app to generate these emails?

Best answer by 1P_Dave

Hello @joshmurphy! 👋

Thank you for the feedback! We do have an existing feature request open to add the ability to generate a masked email address using the 1Password app and I'll add your vote there so that the product team is aware that this is something that you'd like to see. 🙂

-Dave

ref: IDEA-I-1983

26 replies

May 14, 2024

Here's an example where 1Password found an email field, but doesn't offer to create a masked email.

I'm well acquainted with Fastmail's application, as I constantly have to use it given that 1Password hardly ever suggests creating a masked email, but appreciate the suggestion.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
May 14, 2024

@loopsided

Thank you for that example. That doesn't appear to be a sign-up page which is why 1Password isn't suggesting a masked email address there. If you navigate to the sign-up page for withjoy.com and tap on the email field then 1Password will suggest a masked email address there.

By design, masked email aliases are only suggested on sign-up pages at the moment.

That being said, I can see how it would be useful to have 1Password generate a masked email alias on any page and I've filed a feature request on your behalf.

-Dave

ref: PB-39766164

May 14, 2024

Absolutely.

Another example, when I come across a sign-up or sign-in prompt within an application for which I don't yet have an account, if the application was designed correctly, it'll prompt me to use my password manager.

In that modal, 1Password lets me generate a password. But it only suggests using my private email address for the email field.

As I see it, the simplest way to solve this would be to offer to create a masked email whenever the focus in 1Password's app is on an email field (or next to any email text input box).

1Password Employee
May 15, 2024

Hi @loopsided - thanks for the additional feedback - I've updated the feature request that Dave filed on your behalf to include these details.

DefiCzech
March 6, 2025

Is this feature in roadmap or not. Masked mail create suggestion in desktop browser is not reliable at all. And create masked mail in app also solves mobile app.

March 11, 2025

+1 here. Masked email integration is my number one use case for a password manager, and it is almost useless in 1password. I end up going to the fastmail website to create new aliases almost every time