The service was initially rolled out in a beta phase for early adopters, with limited access to features. Now, it is generally available for all users, with the introduction of a premium plan that unlocks all the features.
While an email alias is temporary email address that forwards all received emails to your actual email inbox. It protects your real email address from spammers and helps in managing spam effectively.
How Does Firefox Relay protect against Spammers?
Firefox Relay, as a privacy-first service hides your real email address to help protect your identity from spammers. It will forward your email messages from your alias email addresses to your primary email address and all messages are deleted after they’re delivered to you.
And you get five free email aliases and up to 150 kb attachments for free. Additionally, the ability for labels to be synced across devices allow you to add information such as an account name or description to make it easier for you to know which websites you are using the alias. This new syncing ability, means you’ll be able to see the labels on all your connected devices, including mobile phone.
Firefox Relay is currently available in the following languages, namely: English, German, Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Ukrainian, Slovak, Spanish and Welsh.
How to Get Started with Firefox Relay
Firstly, you need to create a Firefox Account, if you don't already have an account, and you’ll need to sign in at relay.firefox.com to generate up to five free random email aliases to use. However, if you need more than five email aliases, you'll have to sign up for the Premium service instead.
The premium service introductory price starts at $0.99 per month and currently available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand; with 0.99 EUR/1.00 CHF in Europe including Austria, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
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