Heimdall: An open-source personal email guardian

Voss

I came across this piece of OSS that could be useful for some of you: [Link] / [Github]

In broad strokes, here's a summary of what Heimdall does:

• Heimdall is a self-hosted email alias/forwarding service
• It's a self-hosted and self-managed service, you have complete control over your data

It allows you to:
1. Receive safely: Receive emails on single-use aliases and forward them to your personal inbox.
2. Reply anonymously: Reply to emails from your alias without revealing your personal email address.
3. Attachments: Attachments are supported on incoming and outgoing emails (subject to size limits - see below).
4. Email commands: Manage your aliases through email directly - no separate app or website required.
5. Usage stats: Easily check the usage stats of each alias.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this project. I read the article and wanted to know what you think of it.

angstrom

Pre-requisites: You need to own a domain and have an AWS account.

No issue with needing to own a domain, but it would be nice if it weren't AWS-dependent

Mr_Tom

@angstrom said: but it would be nice if it weren't AWS-dependent

I presume they've done it this way to prevent forwarded emails being marked as spam?

angstrom

@Mr_Tom said:

@angstrom said: but it would be nice if it weren't AWS-dependent

I presume they've done it this way to prevent forwarded emails being marked as spam?

Possibly. I haven't yet looked at it closely enough, but the AWS requirement does significantly restrict the set of potential users

Mr_Tom

I agree. I haven't looked through the code but I would assume AWS could be replaced with something else for relaying the mail - it would be better if it was handled as part of the initial config though.

vimalware

Easily confused with the popular self-hoster's web gateway

https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall

BlaZe

Been using a similar method via MXRoute.