Akapost is an Email services provider that protects your own email addresses with an ingenious system. The senders email address is shown when emails are received. Akapost acts as an Exchange station between your computer and that of the recipient by exchanging your email address with a selected one from Akapost (via Archer and Anewmorning).
The recipient will only see the Akapost email address and reply to that which in turn will exchange the received emails to the right address and send them on their way.
Two other uses for Akapost Email services are listed on the homepage of the Email provider. It can be first used to unify email addresses by connecting all your email addresses with one outgoing Akapost email address. Akapost furthermore supports custom email addresses which are great for businesses who want to mask employee email addresses.
Another possibility would be to create dummy email addresses for signups and the like. The basic Akapost email service is free and allows you to protect one email address.
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[...] Free email protection service akapost isn’t the only way to hide your email from spam bots and unknown correspondents, but it is one of the most hassle-free ways of doing it, for both mailer and respondent. Once you set up your account with akapost, you can use it as a simple redirection tool by posting it in forums or on your website (and then using the right filter for mail coming through it), or by writing directly to people you don’t quite trust with your address yet. Add .akapost.com to a message sent directly from your protected, registered address, and your recipient just sees your akapost address, while any replies still come to you. akapost protects one email address for free, while charging for additional or group addresses. Akapost [via gHacks] [...]
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[...] gHacks توضیحات تصویری مناسبی برای استفاده از این سرویس در اختیارتان قرار می دهد. [...]
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[...] 12 Agosto, 2008 de veralu Imagine uma situação em que voce quer mandar um email, mas não quer que a pessoa saiba o seu endereço real. Pois é para situações assim que existe o Akapost. Você se cadastra e registra seu email. Quando quiser assegurar sua privacidade você só precisa acrescentar ao endereço do seu destinatário “.akapost.com” (sem as aspas, naturalmente) e o email chegará com o seu endereço modificado para essa terminação. Veja uma explicação mais detalhada em: http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/12/protect-your-email-with-akapost-email-services/ [...]
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so what did you think of rejaw, martin?
This looked interesting on the surface but doesn’t make a lot of sense after consideration.
1. In looking around the site, I didn’t see anything about how the service works when you append the akapost.com to the end of the real email addr. Do you have to change Outlook (POP3) account settings to go to their email server and not your regular one? I would think so for otherwise I would expect your regular email server to bounce the message since it would not be able to resolve the email address with akapost.com at the end of a normal email address.
2. There is no mention of the number of email addresses you can give yourself at akapost. It seems like it would be only one. Disposable email systems typically allow many “fake” email addresses.
3. There is no mention of attachment sizes supported (if any).
4. What happens if you start getting spam through your akapost address?
Lastly, I don’t see why companies would want to maks employee email addresses. I would be quite suspicious to get a company email with an akapost address.
First of all, congratulations for posting a comment that did not land in the spam folder ;)
Let me address your points as good as I can:
1. No need to change anything. Just append akapost.com to the original mail address. This will send the mail directly to Akapost which will then strip it off the information from the original email and forward it to the recipient.
2. Only 1. You can delete the akapost substitute and create a new one in the interface.
3. A test with an attachment of 2.2 Megabytes was successful. I do not know the limit though.
4. See 2
5. Large companies would not do that and you might have overlooked the fact that Akapost Premium supports custom email addresses that can be used.