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33mail News, hints, and tips from 33Mail Menu Home Unblocking a sender in Gmail Leave a reply Occasionally you may need to unblock a sender in Gmail. 33mail emails are sent from a single sender (sender@mailer1.33mail.com) so if you accidentally block a sender your 33mail emails may go into spam. Unblocking is a simple process : Go to your gmail inbox in a web browser Click the gear icon in the top right Click ‘See All Settings’ Click the ‘Filters and Blocked Addresses’ Tab Scroll down to ‘The following email addresses are blocked…’ Find the address you want to unblock and click ‘Unblock’ Click ‘Confirm’ and you are good to go! This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2021 by andrew . Multiple Usernames and Forwarding Addresses Leave a reply 33mail now supports multiple usernames in a single account. You can add additional usernames that forward to your existing account email address or specify a new forwarding address per username. Premium users get 1 additional username included, Pro users get 5, Enterprise users get 25. Your additional usernames will count towards your account alias limits but work the same way as standard usernames otherwise. You can add additional usernames on the dashboard settings page in the ‘Additional Usernames’ section. Please try out the feature and let us know what you think. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2020 by andrew . This is why you should be using an email address masking service. Leave a reply 33mail has been operating for nearly 10 years now and a question that I continually get asked is why would someone want to use a service such as 33mail. There are a number of good reasons around control of spam and unwanted email, but right now in a world where every move you make online is tracked, online privacy is becoming one of the primary reasons that people are using 33mail and other similar services. How you are tracked online? Cookies Most people know that websites can track you via the use of ‘cookies’ which are at their simplest just text that is stored bywithin a given website allowing personalized recommendations and analytics for site owners and for the most part they are not an issue as far as privacy is concerned. Third party cookies are the basis of trackers that follow you around the internet and allow highly targeted advertising. These are what will be heavily restricted by newer privacy focused browsers and their use is generally not a requirement for the web to work effectively so you would be forgiven for assuming that if you use a modern privacy focused browser like safari or firefox you are safe from third party tracking. The end of the world wide web The world wide web as it was initially envisioned no longer exists. The web used to be a highly decentralized mix of websites and services which were very loosely coupled, which led to the development of existing cookie based tracking technologies. Current efforts to curtail online tracking only address the internet as it was, not as it is today where the primary interactions that most people have over the internet are are via huge walled gardens such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. These services are based around an identity which is keyed on an email address. This brings us to the problem that email masking can solve. How are you tracked using your email address If an advertiser has your email address they can easily use it to target you on any closed network (such as facebook or google) where your email address is the primary form of identity. This means that anywhere that you use your email address, such as signing up for newsletters, online stores or any other online service, can sell your address (or a cryptographic hash of your email address) to marketeers so that they can retarget you in the same way as they would in a traditional cookie based advertising network. Enter 33mail This is where 33mail is so useful in protecting your privacy and your online identity from abuse. When you use a new alias for each service that you sign up for there is no way to identify you across these services. Sign up here and try it out today. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2020 by andrew . G Suite Catchall Email Address using 33mail 1 Reply If you manage your domain using G Suite you may be interested to know that you can use it in conjunction with 33mail as a catchall service. This way you get all the benefits of 33mail (easy management of aliases, managed replies, etc) while also routing your primary address through G Suite with all of its features. Setup is simple but will require a 33mail Premium account (only $12 per year) NOTE: This feature is only available on paid G-Suite accounts . If you have a ‘Legacy Free’ account It will allow you to set up the route but it will just bounce emails instead of forwarding them. Log into your gsuite admin account and go to Gmail Settings https://admin.google.com/==your gsuite domain==/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=email or From G Suite home : https://admin.google.com/==domain==/AdminHome Click the menu at the top left Select Apps - Gsuite - Gmail Select Hosts Select Add Route Name : 33mail routing Select Single host Host name: domains.33mail.com Port: 25 Uncheck ‘Perform MX Lookup on host’ Uncheck ‘Require secure transport’ Click save Select the ‘Default Routing’ Section Click ‘Add Setting’ Select ‘All recepients’ Select ‘Modify Message’ Check ‘Change route’ Select 33mail routing In options Select ‘Perform this action only on non recognised addresses’ Click save Thats it. Setup your domain in 33mail and G Suite will pass mail for any address not handled by G Suite will be passed to 33mail for processing. This entry was posted in Tips on November 24, 2019 by andrew . 2 Factor Authentication Leave a reply We have just enabled 2 Factor Authentication for all users. You can access it on the 33mail dashboard settings page. To activate it on your account you will need a Google Authenticator compatible app such as Authy. Simply scan the QR code with your app, enter the token and click the ‘Verify & Activate’ button. If you then log out and log back in again you will be required to input your auth token after your password entry. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2019 by andrew . A new Email Forwarding Service for your domain by 33mails creator Leave a reply I have been working for the last few months on a new service to address the need for a simple email forwarding service for your domain which allows users to be onboarded in as simple a way as possible. This stems from a few requests we have had from 33mail users for a similar service. So picture this : You are a business owner, Max, who has a number of employees who already have an email account but don’t have an email address at your business domain, say maxsbusiness.com. Joan is one such employee and she already has a personal gmail account but has no idea how to set up a new email account for ‘sending mail as’ in gmail, along with Max not having the time or skillset to set it up for her. Enter EmailEngine.io Max sets...