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Former Member
5 years agoEasier way to change the existing account email to Masked Email
Masked Email is very easy to use, but can it be more convenient to generate this kind of random email for the existing account saved in the 1Password? It seems that this feature will only be prompted when creating a new account.
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42 Replies
- Former Member
Thanks for the additional feedback, all!
We're looking into improving the following:
- Allowing generation of masked emails for existing login items (via the "Change email" form on the website).
- Removing the extra "username" field from the login item when adding a masked email.
- Adding an option/button to generate masked email outside the inline menu suggestions.In the future, it would be great if there's a way to tell 1Password that a particular email address is actually a masked email address within Fastmail.
I don't think that can happen due to how our integration is implemented. We must initiate the masked email generation on 1Password's side in order for it to work properly, and cannot "connect" to existing masked emails that were created via Fastmail's interface.
- Former Member
Hey @ag_yaron. It would also be great if we could manually identify the "identifier" for the account. For example, the screenshot above, this website uses a username instead of an email. But when I created a masked email in the sign up form, it actually overwrote the username.
Not sure about others, but I use the 1Password app on my machine WAY MORE than the Safari extension. It would be really awesome if the app had a way of creating masked emails, whether or not it was a part of the username.
Another item that would be great is that I migrated around 60 accounts to masked emails since your release. I did it manually by generating the address at Fastmail.com, then manually updating both my 1Password and the respective account. In the future, it would be great if there's a way to tell 1Password that a particular email address is actually a masked email address within Fastmail.
Thank you!
- Former Member
@Cavolo I tried doing your technique of going through the registration page of a website, but I could not figure out how to then add the entry to my 1Password into the existing item.
Have a screen recording, by chance?
- mafm27New Contributor
I would like to second the following:
* feat: need for an option / shortcut to manually create masked email
* bug: creating/updating entries with masked email add the value to an email field, instead of username/credential (it was the case even for this community)
* feat: option to mark a field in 1password as a masked email, to allow for blocking, etc - Former Member
Agreed! :+1:
- Former Member
@ag_yaron
Yes, this is very important. In this era, most Internet platform accounts have already been registered. - Former Member
Thanks for the suggestion @jqxfxiva ! :)
- Former Member
@ag_yaron quick fix: add this option in context menu.
For me, it must have to have option to manually open "Masked Email" popup.
- Former Member
Thanks for all the feedback and findings here guys. Much appreciated!
Currently, 1Password will only suggest a masked email when creating a new login item (on a signup/login form). We've opened an issue internally and will improve this soon so that masked emails are suggested on "Change email" forms as well.
- sullimanderNew Contributor
When adding a masked email to an existing account 1Password should give the option to update the username.