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by lphillips0825 1030 days ago
You CANNOT deactivate an email with one click. If you delete an email address you would expect it to be dead. Not so—-if an email is sent to the address it is re-activated. I’ve reported this annoying behavior multiple times to no avail.
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(I work on Firefox Relay.)

You can set a mask to blocked, after which it will no longer forward emails to you. If you do this before deleting the mask, they will not re-appear. Additionally, we recommend you to use the random (i.e. @mozmail.com) rather than custom (i.e. @<yoursubdomain>.mozmail.com) addresses if you can, since those are more anonymous, and those will also never re-appear.

That said, we do hear this complaint, and we do have plans to prevent this from happening in the future. It's just hard to balance with a lot of other work (such as the Firefox integration).