How to find alias for a reverse-alias / contact ?

[winklerrr]

Dear SL community,

How can I find the alias for which a reverse alias was created? I have multiple reverse aliases for one specific recipient and over 300 aliases. But I can't remember for which aliases I created those contacts.

I contacted a friend from multiple aliases. So I have multiple contacts/reverse-aliases like this:

• my_friend_at_domain.com_randomGibberish1@simplelogin.co
• my_friend_at_domain.com_randomGibberish2@simplelogin.co
• my_friend_at_domain.com_randomGibberish3@simplelogin.co

But just from the random gibberish suffix alone, I can't figure out which reverse-alias is which. Neither the SL web app nor the extension seem to have a functionality to do that reverse search.

Example

When typing their name in a new email in Proton, the already contacted addresses are suggested. But from the reverse-alias itself I can't tell to which alias the contact belongs:

Searching for that contact name in SL doesn't yield any result:

One option would probably be to rename the contacts in Proton to also have the alias in the display name. But the problem still remains if I don't know which alias was used and I don't want to go through 300+ alias checking all their contacts...

Related Threads

• Use the ALIAS as the sender. #2501
• Feature Request: Add Alias receiving the email to Sender Address Format #2207
• Automatically Add Contacts from SimpleLogin to Proton Mail's Contact List #2002
• Use the browser add-on to view an aliases existing contacts #1930
• Export all reverse-aliases created: they are our actual contact list to import in our mail client #1819
• Implement a way to send from an alias / automatically create a reverse alias by following a pattern without the need to manually create a reverse alias using the dashboard #1770

Best
Sandro

[winklerrr]

Is there any news on this?

[zer0aster]

It seems to me we need an alias-aware way to handle contacts as contacts. When we want to email someone off the bat, we don't think I must email such and such an alias, but we think about them as a person or organisation. We need to be able to go there first, and then be able to see their addresses as sender/alias pairs for selection.

[winklerrr]

Yes, that's exactly the scenario! Thank you for understanding and formulating the use case.

I can see the following solutions to this problem:

• Also include the reverse alias in the Simple Login address, e.g. my_friend_at_domain.com__my_reverse_alias_at_my_domain.com__random_gibberish@simplelogin.co

• Add the reverse alias to the contact card of the Proton Mail address book
  

• Inlcude the reverse aliases within the search on SimpleLogin Dashboard
  

Best
winklerrr