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Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by kodablah »

swongel wrote: post #5

You can use Mailinator to do this already, you can see all of their inboxes on their website and you can use all of their domains to bypass domain restrictions. For example I might use somethingsilly@bobmail.info and it will be redirected to https://www.mailinator.com/v3/index.jsp?zone=public&query=so...

> You can use Mailinator to do this already

While I'm a fan of Mailinator and their approach, I think the feature OP has about auto-clicking verify is unique. But yes, to do this right, you need the multi-domain approach of Mailinator instead of just aliases. Maybe Mailinator has an API or supports POP/IMAP that would make this possible, I haven't checked.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by kodablah »

bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

Not sure of your app, but what do you care if multiple people share the same inbox? They can always with something like Mailinator or other domain-level aliasing.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ReadyPlayerNone »

bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

I'd reconsider this change. Lots of people use email aliases to track which sites share their contact details with third parties. I see it all the time in signups for one of my sites - don't mind, of course, because I don't share their data. If you stop people doing this it might send the wrong message.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ioulian »

sourceless wrote: post #8
bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

Kind of a slap to anyone who uses email aliases to sort/filter email

I use aliases to filter my email and also to see who sells my email address to third parties. All the websites I've used allow "+" in the email address so that's good.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by kodablah »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #9
bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

I will call support to notify them my e-mail (with a + in it) isn't working, like I have done before. No I don't have another e-mail address. Yes, this is really my e-mail address.

To be fair, I would assume/hope the implementation is gmail specific and just truncs the + part only when doing uniqueness validation. Granted its effectiveness is small.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by bpicolo »

ioulian wrote: post #15
sourceless wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of a slap to anyone who uses email aliases to sort/filter email

I use aliases to filter my email and also to see who sells my email address to third parties. All the websites I've used allow "+" in the email address so that's good.

You can assume that the companies selling off email data are smart enough to do the entirely trivial "remove + sign to @ sign" transformation for gmail addresses, at least partly because their job tends to be tracking you across a large amount of domains.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by williamdclt »

ixwt wrote: post #10
aogl wrote: post #3

A lot of services don't allow +uniqueSection in email addresses anymore; just bear in mind..

Because it's a gmail address, you can put as many . as you want anywhere in the name. Gmail strips them out when determining the email address.

Not as useful as `firstnamelastname+twitter@gmail.com` for example :/

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by DarkWiiPlayer »

bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

That has to be the worst idea of the year. You are essentially blocking perfectly valid emails on the assumption that one single email provider uses the + character with some special meaning. Congratulations, that's how you break the internet.
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