what about the gmail receive limit? its 60 emails per minute or about 80k per day
if you hit 1 minute over 60 you get blocked 24h
Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
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#22Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.
Excellent work. Now disallow catch-all email addresses. I'll wait.
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#23This is delightfully crazy.
Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse.
Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.
Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
#24Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.
Great marketing for your services since you're putting them in your profile.
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#25Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.
When a website presumes to normalize my Gmail address, I presume they aren’t interested in my money.
You are well within your rights to prohibit duplicate signups from the normalized address, but please don’t presume to replace what the user entered.
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#26Thanks, 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.
That is essentially losing 1 customer vs handling thousand spammers.
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#27Seems like the perfect one to get one's account stolen
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :/
Not as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses.
EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.
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#29You 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.
Last I checked it appeared like Mailinator's POP3 support was completely removed, and API access requires a subscription. It was priced way above what I was willing to pay (I think $150/mo)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is essentially losing 1 customer vs handling thousand spammers.
Except people use aliases to protect themselves from spammers - who frequently buy or steal e-mails from companies like the one you're considering.