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This has existed and been free for 22 years already: http://www.mytrashmail.com/
Hi dmitrygr, the idea is not new, but the link you gave is for disposable email addresses, which are public. That's a different use-case from nBox, where the addresses are private.
I've been a satisfied user of SpamGourmet (www.spamgourmet.com) for years, and the only (argueable) downside I've seen is how upset customer-service representatives get upset while reading my address. How does your service compare?
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I used to do this. The amount spam of mail I received to mailbox names I had never used started to dwarf my actual email. This is apparently made worse because spammers take the fact that these addresses will receive mail as a signal that they're valid, causing them to send more mail to them. A couple of years ago, maintaining the blacklist passed the point where this was a viable technique for me.
This is why you might consider maintaining a white list or white pattern instead.
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With gmail you can just do username+hackernews@gmail.com and it will send it to username@gmail.com. The nice thing about this service though is you can just remove the fake email and they can't email you anymore.
There are a fair number of sites with broken regexes/validations that reject emails with +s in them.
But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my email address without my permission.
It wasn't worth it.
I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…
Can you elaborate ? I have been meaning to set up just such a mechanism as it has always seemed like a good idea ...
It seems like "rsync.net@example.com" would be very easy to remember and associate with the site (rsync.net, in this example) ...
I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…
I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…
This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it even easier.
As an alternative, you could register a domain with a catch-all email address and simply register for new services on the fly using a unique string for each site. Have the catch-all forward to your main email account. For example, I would sign-up for HN using hackernews@marak.com and for Reddit using reddit@marak.com Simple and effective.
Been there done that. If you catch all e-mail you will also get a lot of spam to random addresses like say sven@marak.com, lollerskates95@marak.com and so on and so forth. So then you need spam filtering anyway, or you need to configure which addresses are valid. I still host my own e-mail but I no longer do catch-all. There are only a few sites and services I care about. For those I have trusted them with my e-mail…
I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…
"But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my email address without my permission." Can you elaborate ? I have been meaning to set up just such a mechanism as it has always seemed like a good idea ... It seems like "rsync.net@example.com" would be very easy to remember and associate with the site (rsync.net, in this example) ...