Brave Email Aliases allows you to sign up for services anonymously and keep your email free from spam. Protect your privacy by generating unique addresses that forward to your primary email inbox. 

In order to create an email alias, you'll first need to create a Brave account with an email address and password. In the near future, it will be possible (though not mandatory) to use this account to configure Brave Sync on all your devices, while still preserving the end-to-end encryption of your sync data. Note that this account is separate from the Brave Premium account (which some users will use to manage premium subscriptions).

How Email Alias works

Like in everything we do, Brave tries hard to minimize data we collect and process. Once you sign up for Email Aliases, we will store the email address associated with your Brave Account and any email aliases that you generate. Emails sent to an alias are forwarded to your primary email address.

Brave does not read the contents of emails sent to an alias. We only process emails for the purposes of performing standard spam and virus filtering, which we need to do in order to maintain our status as a reputable email provider (otherwise your emails would get sent to spam). Once an email is successfully delivered, it is deleted on our servers within seconds. In case of temporary email delivery failures (e.g., if your primary mailbox is full), we will periodically try to resend the email for up to 24 hours, before deleting the message.

If you add notes to an alias (e.g., “Throwaway account for SendMomFlowers.com”), this note is stored locally on your device. If you enable Brave Sync, your notes will be encrypted end-to-end between devices on the same Sync chain. Only you can decrypt or read these notes. Learn more about how Brave Sync protects your privacy here.

💡Note: Brave uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Email Aliases. All messages are encrypted-at-rest. 

Metrics and logging

For metrics and debugging, we collect timestamps for when an email is received, the Brave alias ID (which references an actual alias address), a message ID, SES verdicts (SpamVerdict, VirusVerdict, SPFVerdict, DKIMVerdict, DMARCVerdict), a filtered subset of email headers (received-spf, authentication-results, x-ses-receipt, x-ses-dkim-signature, dkim-signature, content-type) and whether it was bounced or successfully delivered. We do not log the content of the email, and we do not log sender information. Statistics we store for a received email are deleted after 7 days and log events are deleted within 14 days.

How to create an Email Alias

Once you've logged into your Brave Account in the browser, you can now create your email alias by going to Settings > Autofill & Passwords > Email Aliases:

Click the New Alias button and Brave will generate a randomized email address for you in the resulting window. You can click the "refresh" symbol to generate a new one if you do not like the one initially generated. You can also leave a note to associate with the address to help keep your aliases organized.

Any created Aliases will be displayed on this page, along with their associated notes. You can use the Copy button on the entry to copy the email address to your clipboard. Click on the over flow icon (three vertical dots) on the entry to edit the associated note for that alias, or to delete the alias from your account.

Support

To delete your Brave account, change your primary email address or give feedback, please submit a Support ticket here. To prevent aliases from being reused, when you delete your Brave account, we mark associated aliases as inactive and delete any connection to your Brave account email address.