If you want to protect your mail account from advertising spam and worse, you can use a trick in Firefox. We’ll show you how “Relay” works.
To protect itself from spam and undesired direct reachability, the Mozilla Foundation has developed a service for camouflage identities.
It’s called Firefox Relay – you can use it to generate so-called alias email addresses that can be used instead of the real email address and thus protect it.
The actual Version 2.3.4 The software offers some interesting features that make the free service even more exciting:
- the maximum supported attachment size is increased from 150 KB to 10 MB.
- Filter option for promotional emails in the premium version of Firefox Relay
- in addition to the longer available Firefox extension, a Chrome add-on is now also available
Messages are forwarded
Messages to the alias addresses – so-called masks – are automatically forwarded to the real inbox of the root email address with Firefox Relay. This is useful, for example, for online shopping or for social networks.
That’s how it works: After installing the extension, a purple hexagon icon will automatically appear on the right edge of email input fields on websites. Clicking on this will generate a new, random address ending in “@relay.mozmail.com”.
Central administration page
On the website relay.firefox.com users can manage their alias addresses and regenerate them if necessary, for example on mobile devices. If it is noticed that spam or other unwanted messages have been forwarded to the root address, all messages can be blocked here or the alias can be deleted directly from the overview.
The Firefox Relay service is free with an extension and up to five alias addresses. There is also a premium version for one euro per month, which offers unlimited alias addresses and your own e-mail domain, as well as the option to reply to forwarded e-mails.