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zfa

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    Comment #40912280

    Spammers who just blast stuff out won't do it, I'm sure. But as a counterpoint it literally happened to me to me years ago when I used to use name+ @exmaple.com. I got cold emails …

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    Comment #40911490

    No idea, just pointing out it is such an obvious alg it doesn't really show provenance. I used similar (well, plus addressing with localpart=name+ ) a long time ago and once got em…

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    Comment #40910614

    I bet no spammer or salesperson would ever think of replacing such a generic localpart to get to your eyeballs.

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    Comment #40910590

    Needs your API key as it needs to access the email forwarding service which you want to use with it. It's not just making up a bullshit address, it's generating a random localpart …

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    Comment #40815863

    Self-hosted Mesh Central.

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    Comment #33675267

    Interesting. I have a few bits and pieces on my Workspace domains to automate mail processing using Google Apps Script so will have to see if I can move that over to Cloudflare. Be…

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    Comment #33675229

    Sorry - just had to clarify elsewhere too so I obviously wasn't clear... I meant in situations where the backend MX has a mailbox which matches to mail recipient as in the case whe…

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    Comment #33675196

    Yeah, sorry I meant as a soln for when your backend MX actually is *your* backend MX. That is, it knows it hosts the mailbox for localpart@example.com and the mail recipient addres…

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    Comment #33667982

    Can someone with more knowledge on this subject explain if there's a technical reason Cloudflare can't 'properly' MITM the inbound email. That is you have your MX records pointing …

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    Comment #33400869

    Well 'the alternatives' are many so there's no quick answer to this, but restricting to just AGH as per this post then... Encrypted upstream lookups. Responding to encrypted lookup…

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    Comment #33388487

    Pi-hole is a bloated mess compared to this IMO. At the end of the day pi-hole is still just a fork of dnsmasq with a load of scripts and a bootstrap gui whacked on top. You need to…

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    Comment #33388432

    Literally has a one-click toggle for blocking Facebook, yeah.

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    Comment #28386615

    I mean if it floats his boat then why not. But it looks like a lot (all?) of the work here was just to get pi-hole functioning well - and that now needs him to deploy pi-hole, clou…