Forwarding address · For the privacy-first
Your own
@inbox.avocabo.com.
If you’d rather not connect any app to your inbox — for any reason, no defence needed — you can pick up a dedicated address and forward newsletters yourself. Same digest, same dedup, same morning ritual. Just zero OAuth.
How it works.
When you sign up, we mint a unique address. Two characters of your name, a short random suffix, and the Avocabo inbox domain. Yours, forever, until you delete the account.
Claim your address.
One click after signup. No verification needed.
Point newsletters at it.
Two paths: change the email on each subscription one at a time (clean, slower), or set up a Gmail filter that auto-forwards anything matching list:<newsletter> to your address (faster, ~5 minutes).
Wait for the digest.
The first one lands the morning after we’ve seen enough newsletters to earn the page. Same seven a.m. Same calm.
When to choose this.
The forwarding path isn’t a fallback. It’s a first-class ingestion route for a real audience — readers who’ve thought about it and prefer the air-gap.
Forwarding fits when
- You don’t want any app touching your inbox
- Your work account doesn’t allow consumer OAuth
- You want explicit, per-newsletter control over what we see
- You like the discipline of manual subscription management
OAuth fits when
- You want it done in ninety seconds
- You don’t want to maintain forwarding rules
- You’re fine with a read-only scope that can’t modify mail
The trade-off, named.
We don’t pretend the friction isn’t real. Setting up forwarding takes ten to twenty minutes once. Then the daily experience is identical to the OAuth path — same summarizer, same dedup across sources, same delivery time, same everything.
What you give up in setup time, you get back in inbox sovereignty. That’s a trade some readers will gladly make. We respect it; we built for it.
You can also use both. OAuth your personal Gmail for breadth, forward from a paid Substack to keep that one explicit. Mixed setups are first-class too.
Either path is sufficient.
Both ingestion routes are first-class in Avocabo. Pick the one that fits how you think about your inbox — you can switch or layer them later.
Want the ninety-second path? Read about read-only OAuth →