Reply without exposing your normal inbox

What normal Reply does

1. Your mail app addresses the response to a private return address attached to that conversation.
2. Wilbomail checks that the message came from the inbox that owns the alias.
3. The reply is sent to the authenticated employer participants from your Wilbomail address, with threading headers translated so the conversation stays together.

Controlled Gmail testing preserved rich HTML, links, inline images, attachments, and a four-turn thread. In the inspected ordinary-reply and threading test copies, the employer-bound source showed the Wilbomail alias and did not show the destination Gmail address or private reply route.

Check your signature

Wilbomail preserves the message body you wrote. It does not remove a Gmail signature or guess which details you meant to hide. If your signature contains a personal email address, phone number, employer, social profile, or other identifying text, the recipient sees it exactly as written.

Before your first reply, disable that signature for the message or replace it with one that uses your Wilbomail address.

Avoid CC, added recipients, and Reply All

Wilbomail protects the route to the authenticated participants already known in the employer thread. A recipient you manually add can be mailed directly by your email provider under your real account identity. Treat CC and adding recipients as outside the privacy relay.

Reply All has not completed the same controlled end-to-end acceptance run. Use plain Reply when keeping the alias private matters.

Do not compose a new message to your own alias

A new message sent from your destination inbox to your bare Wilbomail address is ordinary inbound mail. It forwards straight back to that same inbox; it does not know which employer you meant to contact.

To continue a conversation, return to the employer message that Wilbomail forwarded and reply inside that thread.

Leave the private return address alone

The unusual recipient your mail app inserts on Reply is signed routing information for that one alias and thread. It is intentionally hidden from the employer-bound copy. Do not copy it into a new message, publish it, share it, or save it as an employer contact. Let your mail app use it automatically through Reply.

If a reply looks wrong

• If the recipient changed before you sent, cancel and start again from the forwarded employer message.
• If the employer saw personal details in the body, inspect your signature and quoted text.
• If the message returned to your inbox, you sent to the bare alias instead of replying to the private thread route.
• If you used a different sender account, resend from the inbox shown next to your Wilbomail address in Account settings.