I really like this feature. I use it with anonaddy right now.
One request I have is making the settings more configurable. I’d rather create random word emails instead of random strings, it would be great if we could make that setting.
Loving the forwarding feature! I have it linked with SimpleLogin.
The only request I would have is that rather than having to have it generate a random address each time, if you could make it so you could make the username what you wanted, then told it to “create forwading address” which would then make whatever you typed into the username field be what is sent via the API to SimpleLogin (I much prefer custom username rather than a random one).
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I requested this feature back in 2018. Now, that bitwarden has this feature implemented, I switched over from Enpass.
I am happy to have it and I’ll subscribe to a paid tier now.
Thank you for implementing this!
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Who hoo! Glad to have you join the community!
My email provider uses a hyphen/dash to separate the two elements.
For example:
It would be very helpful if I could specify the character used to separate the two elements - we don’t all use Gmail!
I’d like to see more creative word-based username generation (as opposed to the emphasis on email based). Currently it generates a single random word with an optional numeric postfix, but it would be nice to have broader options for sites that don’t rely on email addresses as identifiers. (I think someone else called this out above, but I’m expounding here with examples of desirable output.)
For example:
- Multiple words (like the passphrase generator, but located in the usernames section; however, the passphrase output is usually random gibberish, and part of the attraction of this feature is building a coherent identifier)
- Consonance patterns (e.g. RunningRabbit, CucumberCreampuffCache)
- Rhyming patterns (e.g. SublimeMime, SuperDuperAlleyooper)
- Grammatical patterns like Adjective-Noun (HappyPhilosopher), Verb-Adverb (LimpingAdroitly), Verb-Noun (WavingPrincess), etc.
I don’t think these all need to be different options exposed in the UI, but they offer stimulating variety to the patterns generated.
There are other tools that exist which can generate complex usernames like this, so it isn’t a novel functionality, but it would be nice to have it in the same tool as password generation.
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It would be great if you could store different domain to use with catch-all username generation. This would be really useful in the cases when you use different domains for different types of contact, for example a user might have mybusinessdomain.com and mypersonaldomain.com and want so easily switch between generating usernames for each.
Something a little annoying is when you already use a Plus Addressed Email in your Bitwarden account and want to use the Generator, the value is concatenated with the already existing one, resulting in an invalid email address because of the double +.
Instead, it could do a replacement between the + (that exists) and @ for a better experience using the tool.
This is really close to what I’d like - which is a combination of two of the existing features.
“Catch-all email” + “website name” creates the format I want, which is for example amazon.com@mydomain - I want to be able to create that format via “forwarded email alias” to anonaddy (which just gives a random string @mydomain currently).
If it could be limited to amazon.com@ and strip out any preceding host names then that would be 100% perfect!