There are many online reviews of and and discussions about the mailexpire service. One point which is frequently raised as a point against the service is that we won't activate an alias without confirming that the recipient wants it. Before an alias becomes active, a confirmation mail containing an activation link is sent to the email address.
A common view is that this is an unnecessary extra step. When you want an alias, you want it now. So why introduce this process? In fact, didn't mailexpire originally launch way back when without this step?
Yes, There are two good reasons for this.
Firstly, we don't want just anyone to be able to set up an alias for your email address. It's your inbox, we want your approval before forwarding mail to you.
Secondly, not having the approval runs the risk of mailexpire becoming part of the problem. Without the confirmation step, a spammer could potentially create an alias for each email address on their list and then send their snake oil to the aliases instead of to the actual email addresses. Routing them through mailexpire instead of sending directly from their own mail server would give the spammer something to hide behind. That's a facility we don't intend to offer to spammers.
While alias activation may be an extra step, we believe it's worth it for the extra protection it offers to you.
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For those interested in automating activation, I wrote about how I've been automating it.
Excellent work. I'm very impressed!
why does the confirmation step take so long? i have been waiting for about 3 hours for a confirmation?
The confirmation doesn't take that long. Send me on the details, and I'll take a look - click on the "Combustion/Jack Healy" link on the bottom of any page on the site.
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