Shroud.email vs TMailr

Shroud.email creates email aliases that forward incoming messages to your real inbox, keeping the real address private. It removes tracking pixels from forwarded mail and proxies email images through its servers. You can delete or disable aliases and block individual senders, and the service says it works with all email providers, including Gmail and Proton Mail. Paid users can attach custom domains, configure catch-all aliases, and recreate those addresses elsewhere if they leave. The API manages aliases and discovers custom domains with bearer-token authorization. The project is open source under AGPL v3 and includes a Docker Compose deployment for self-hosting. Self-hosting requires a public server with ports 25, 80, and 443 open, plus keys for S3-compatible storage. Detected spam remains viewable in the web portal for seven days. The hosted service is EU-hosted on renewable energy. The Free plan costs nothing and includes five aliases and tracker blocking; the paid plan has no listed price and renews annually.

TMailr combines receive-only temporary inboxes, masked forwarding aliases, email deliverability checks, and a developer sandbox on the web and through an API. Temporary inboxes use private links, receive mail only, and disappear when they expire. Free inboxes last 60 minutes by default, can be extended to 24 hours, and hold up to 50 messages; Pro inboxes are described as effectively unlimited and remain active while subscribed. Masked aliases forward messages to a real mailbox, can be paused or blocked separately, and keep the forwarding address out of TMailr pages and API responses. Deliverability tools include Gmail inbox tests, domain checks for MX, SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS, and TLS, plus header, address, and DMARC tools. Developers get test and live keys, JavaScript examples, polling, and signed webhooks. Incoming HTML is sanitized, remote images are blocked until requested, links show destinations, and attachments are virus-scanned; executable files are refused.