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An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by scoot »

binwiederhier wrote: post #39

I have a unique email address for every single service that I sign up for, similar to this, though selfhosted. I've been doing this for years and it works wonderfully. If someone misuses my email address, or gets annoying, I can simply turn off the address. Bam! It's the easiest Postfix config in the universe, essentially just: virtual_alias_domains = domain1.com domain2.com virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vir…

I use 33mail.com (33m.co) which does the same thing (it has a link on the email to disable the address). You can use a subdomain or custom domain. It has a generous free tier, and ridiculously cheap paid tier. (Paid is required if you want to be able to reply to inbound emails though.)

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by vmception »

b1n wrote: post #81
rootusrootus wrote: post #68

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I do a simplified version of this. I just use a catchall account with Fastmail and then pick email addresses in the domain randomly. If someone abuses the address, I block it. I specifically do not use addresses that make it obvious what my strategy is. I end up just using a name and number that would look right at home on gmail. I'm also not trying to stop tracking, so much as I'm trying to have my own semi-permanen…

I've been thinking of a new way to use my email... - Only use one email address: hi@example.com - Always add a filter: hi+hn@example.com - Send all emails without a filter to SPAM Since it's not a common strategy, it is much more likely that spammers remove the +hn before sending an email than add one.

would not recommend

not only can you not sign up to many services, customer support can often get confused when you need to email reply to them and you cannot email from your aliased email. they see you as a separate user not in their system, or the wrong person replied to the support ticket, etc.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by callalex »

earthboundkid wrote: post #101

How do I report Hide My Email abuse? Someone used it to send a nasty email to my company. I couldn’t figure out how to report it. My guess is there is no way to do it and there won’t be until after some reporters make it the Apple scandal of the week when there’s no other news.

Are you sure that was the actual sender? Email allows you to write whatever you want in the From field.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by sunny3 »

Unfortunately, I found that Hide My Email complicates unsubscribing. I tried unsubscribing from Jumba Juice many times unsuccessfully, only to realize that the email that I entered was my actual email, and I should enter the email that was shared to Jumba Juice instead.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by beachy »

vba616 wrote: post #109
drivebycomment wrote: post #22

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425 > Apple doesn't read or process any of the content in the email messages that pass through Hide My Email, except to perform standard spam filtering that's required to maintain our status as a trusted email provider. All email messages are deleted from our relay servers after they're delivered to you, usually within seconds. Unless you can present an evidence, your post is most…

>your post is mostly a conspiracy theory. Do you frequently bet that people are doing the right thing with no oversight? How often does that prove to be true?

I would take the bet in this case without hesitation. Apple is too big and has too many potential internal whistle blowers to run a clandestine email monitoring operation.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by gman83 »

I must be the only person who doesn't receive spam. I mean I do, but it goes into the spam folder. I've never really understood why I should use something like this. I have my email address on my website anyway, so it's not like it's private information.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by ratww »

hackernewds wrote: post #105
ohlookabird wrote: post #78

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Nice! I do something similar, but using an automatic aliasing scheme so that I don't have to manually configure an email address for each service and other users can use this without me knowing their aliases. In my setup, aliases can contain wildcards, represented as percent signs. If an alias phil.%@domain1.com is set up, all your examples will be sent to the respective aliased address. I use Postfix Admin with a My…

Why not just use phil+craigslist@gmail.com or phil+kmart@gmail.com? same effect and lands in the same phil@gmail.com address

Because it's not as effective if the goal is to catch spam. Spammers are already wise to the meaning of + and will strip it automatically when selling data in bulk. Plus, some services block creating accounts with the + or with their name in the address.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by pixl97 »

ratww wrote: post #119
hackernewds wrote: post #105

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Why not just use phil+craigslist@gmail.com or phil+kmart@gmail.com? same effect and lands in the same phil@gmail.com address

Because it's not as effective if the goal is to catch spam. Spammers are already wise to the meaning of + and will strip it automatically when selling data in bulk. Plus, some services block creating accounts with the + or with their name in the address.

Block any email to the address missing the +
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