Use Cases
Email aliases are not just for privacy enthusiasts. From online shopping to developer workflows, here are the most common ways people use them.
Use a unique alias for every SaaS trial, app registration, or online form. If that service sells your data or gets breached, you will know exactly which one leaked because spam arrives at that specific alias. Deactivate it without affecting anything else.
Dedicate an alias to online shopping. Receipts, shipping notifications, and order updates all go to one address. When the marketing follow-ups start, archive that alias and create a new one for your next round of purchases.
Subscribe to newsletters with a dedicated alias per publication. If a newsletter gets too noisy or starts sharing your address with advertisers, deactivate that one alias. Your other subscriptions keep arriving normally.
Route GitHub, Vercel, AWS, and other service alerts to categorized aliases. Use one alias for infrastructure alerts, another for deployment notifications, and a third for billing. Triage by alias in the inbox without complex filter rules.
Give each client a unique alias. All project communication stays organized by address. When the engagement ends, deactivate that alias and you never hear from that client again unless you want to.
Dating apps, forums, classified ads, and social media all want your email. Use throwaway aliases for any situation where you do not want to reveal your real identity. If things go wrong, deactivate the alias and walk away.
The most impactful use case is creating a unique alias for every online account. This lets you identify data leaks, isolate spam, and deactivate compromised addresses without disrupting your other accounts.
Yes. Freelancers and contractors commonly use per-client aliases to organize project communication. Enterprise plans support up to 200 active aliases and 100 sends per day.
Most users start with 5-10 aliases for their most-used services and grow from there. Pro supports up to 50 active aliases, and Enterprise supports up to 200.