Email Address Generator

An add-on for generating unique email aliases for a domain with a catch-all email address set-up.

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The email addresses are generated in the following format: <site-identifier>.<encoded-timestamp><format-version>@<email-domain>

Components:

1. Site identifier:
   • Derived from the hostname of the current site
   • Dots are replaced with hyphens
   • The www. prefix is removed
   • Example: https://www.mail.google.com → mail-google-com
2. Encoded timestamp:
   • Represents the time the email address was generated in seconds since May 1st, 2024 00:00 UTC
   • The value is encoded into a string using this alphabet abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_
   • const ALPHABET = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_";

     function encodeTimestamp(num) { let encoded = "";

     while (num > 0) {
         encoded = ALPHABET[num % ALPHABET.length] + encoded;
         num = Math.floor(num / ALPHABET.length);
     }
     
     return encoded;

     }

     function decodeTimestamp(encoded) { let decoded = 0;

     for (let i = 0; i < encoded.length; i++) {
         let charIndex = ALPHABET.indexOf(encoded[i]);
         decoded = decoded * ALPHABET.length + charIndex;
     }
     
     return decoded;

     }

3. Format version identifier:
   • Current value: a
   • Subject to change in the future (allows future extensions to the format)
4. Email domain:
   • Your email domain
   • Set in the extension's options page

The code for generating addresses can be found here (in the generate-address.js file).