Email Aliases and Compartmentalisation

What Are Aliases?

An alias is an alternative email address that forwards to your main inbox. For example, if your main address is [email protected], you might create [email protected] to use when signing up for Amazon.

Aliases let you give every service a unique address. When one starts receiving spam, you know exactly which service leaked your data.

Creating an Alias

1. Go to Settings (gear icon in the sidebar).
2. Scroll to the Email Aliases section.
3. Click + New Alias.
4. Either type a custom address (e.g. shopping) or click Generate Random to create a random alias like [email protected].
5. Optionally add a label (e.g. "Amazon", "Newsletter") to remember what it's for.
6. Click Create Alias.

Managing Aliases

Each alias in your list shows its status and has action buttons:

• Pause — instantly stops the alias from receiving mail. The sender gets no bounce — mail is silently dropped. This is ideal for cutting off a data broker without alerting them.
• Resume — reactivates a paused alias.
• Spam — reports that this alias is receiving spam. After 5 spam reports, the alias is automatically paused.
• Destroy — permanently deletes the alias. This cannot be undone. The address becomes available for anyone to register.

Alias Limits

The number of aliases you can create depends on your plan:

• Free (with VPN) — 0 aliases
• PrMail Pro — 5 aliases
• PrMail Business — 20 aliases

Why Compartmentalise?

If you use one email address for everything, a single data breach exposes your identity across every service. With aliases, each service only knows one unique address. If that address leaks, you destroy it and create a new one — your main address stays private.