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You think spammers are people going through emails? It is all automated.
s/+.*@/@/g
I don't think that would work, something like /(.)\+.(@.\..)/g might
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Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#172I'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 too have had a catch-all @mydomain for around 10 years and it works beautifully for me. In addition to @mydomain I also have 2 email addresses. My main email that I give directly to places I trust like my bank and the second one I direct all my @mydomain email to. This way I only have to remember 2 email addresses, no matter how many @mydomain email addresses I have created (many hundreds by now).
By default I only ever receive a limited number of emails from any new emailx@mydomain, unless I explicitly go to @mydomain and allow a specific emailx@mydomain to pass that limit.
My only irritation is that some vendors block @mydomain as a valid email address, in which case I use an ancient email address in its place. Needless to say that vendor will never see my main email.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#173I'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…
The username and password are saved in my password manager, so it's no hassle at all.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#174I'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…
Sub-addressing is an easier way to do that. If you use a "regular" character like "." as a separator virtually all sites will accept the email as valid vs using something like "+".
I always loved gmail for this.
Still, I'd love also in my private email. How can I setup this?
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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Sub-addressing is an easier way to do that. If you use a "regular" character like "." as a separator virtually all sites will accept the email as valid vs using something like "+".
I always loved gmail for this. Still, I'd love also in my private email. How can I setup this?
Highly dependant on the setup you have.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#176I'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…
Companies/organisations whose data leaks I have discovered through spam to single-use addresses: * monster.com * linkedin * Pragmatic Programmers (pragprog.com) * audioscrobbler (now part of last.fm) * The London Cycling Campaign * The Economist's subscription department
* Dropbox
* Adobe
* ...
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#177I'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 do the same, except I also add some diceware words, to make the address harder to guess, and so I can update to a new address on leak.
I sore it in a password manager, so remembering the address is no problem.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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What's your plan when every site starts banning your addresses? I have to spend 15 minutes to find a new non-blacklisted temp-email service every time I want to use one.
Hi deft, that's a concern we have. Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.
You may allow people to use their own domain ?
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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What's your plan when every site starts banning your addresses? I have to spend 15 minutes to find a new non-blacklisted temp-email service every time I want to use one.
Hi deft, that's a concern we have. Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.
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Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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Hi deft, that's a concern we have. Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.
You may allow people to use their own domain ?
Hi ponytech, that's something we're thinking of proposing, but it probably won't come in a very near future.