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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.
Tangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?
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…
lol. I have nico+domainname@domain.com , it's a standard alias used by google apps to forward to nico@domain.com It's worth it and only 1 password
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…
Big mistake.
First off, I got FLOODED with e-mail bounce-back spam because spammers send e-mail with forged From: headers and I'd get all the errors.
Second, I discovered that nobody is actually selling my e-mail address except for one gaming forum I used years ago. Not even Facebook has sold my e-mail address.
Third, I've run into issues when replying to e-mails. I filed a support ticket with a company once, where the e-mail address I had registered with them was company@mydommain.com. They responded via e-mail, and when I replied to said e-mail, their ticket system rejected it since the From: address was my main address of myname@mydomain.com.
Now that I want to just switch to a single e-mail account with gmail, I find myself needing to try to find every e-mail address I've used @mydomain.com and changing them with the website. Meh...not worth it.
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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.
Tangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?
If your Fastmail address is dfinniger@fastmail.com then you can randomly create emails like:
some-domain@dfinniger.fastmail.com
and it will automatically send them to your main email.
It's very convenient, and the cost per year is likely to be less than your hourly rate multiplied by the number of hours it'd take to set up self-hosting.
I am trying to understand this. Appears to offer bulk accounts that are easy to create and permanent, targeting the market that sits between a) regular email addresses, which are permanent but a pain to sign up for, needing phone verification, etc. and b) throwaway accounts that are easy to create but cannot be kept long-term. This seems like an interesting idea if they own a whole bunch of different domains, but the…
Hi iliketosleep, to allow the notifications a small window should appear at the top of the page. But not all browsers have implemented this feature. What device and browser do you use?
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lol. I have nico+domainname@domain.com , it's a standard alias used by google apps to forward to nico@domain.com It's worth it and only 1 password
I'd think spammers would have caught on to that and would either start sending e-mail to nico@domain.com or nico+someotherdomainname@domain.com
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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.
Tangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?
These days many services ask for a phone number for 2FA just to sign up, it'd be great to have a tool that gave you multiple numbers on demand so you don't have to give out your phone number.
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…