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Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by mxuribe »

RachelF wrote: post #98

The counterpoint for having your own domain is that emails you send have a good chance of being classified as spam.

Yes, but, there are things one can do to help alleviate or avoid being classified as spammer...such as setting up SPF, DKIM, DMARc, etc. properly. Also, have folks send emails into your new inbox first, then reply, etc...Also, "warm up" the sending outbound by sending into legitimate services little by little, etc. Now, if you were to stand up your own self-hosted mail server, that makes things a little harder, but even then, there are things one can do...so its not dire.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by Neywiny »

xp84 wrote: post #77
imiric wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...

I got a LOT more confused looks, especially because I stupidly used a subdomain for this purpose. Imagine like, burgers@e.abc.co.uk when someone is expecting an @gmail.com. If I could think of an unambiguous .com, .net, or .org that is a pronounceable word that wasn't registered already by 2001, I'd be maybe willing to try this again.

Same here. I have a .dev tld (Ooh ahh very fancy). My email is [first]@[last].dev . The amount of times they go "@ gmail?" Is astonishing. These are people who all day, countless times per day, for countless years, are collecting emails (front desk clerks, support reps, whatever), and not one email in the history of emails is the format blah@blah.blah@gmail.com, but somehow they think mine is. Should've just stuck with the Gmail

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by paranoidrobot »

jrm4 wrote: post #37

Been doing this for years, and surprised he didn't seem to mention the other benefit: "infinity" email addresses. Oh, rando burger spot wants an email for some free fries? Great, hit me up at randoburgerspot@"mydomain".com .

I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address.

It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet supplies online a while ago registered like this.

Then I go in store more recently and they ask "Do you have an account with us?", I give them that email when asked, which causes them to pause. We went around a few times of them asking what my email was, before getting a manager who thought I was doing something dodgy and decided to try looking up my account by phone number instead of email.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by rlpb »

bb88 wrote: post #96
robotresearcher wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail has a limited version of this. It leaks your real address, but it makes filtering easy. + @gmail.com steve+randoburger@gmail.com

I've seen places that won't allow a "+" saying it's an invalid character.

Microsoft, for example, for a Windows login account does this.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by Johnny555 »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #69
jrm4 wrote: post #37

Been doing this for years, and surprised he didn't seem to mention the other benefit: "infinity" email addresses. Oh, rando burger spot wants an email for some free fries? Great, hit me up at randoburgerspot@"mydomain".com .

Could also be useful if someone puts a typo in your email username when sending you an important email. You'll still get the email with a catch-all emails set up on your own domain. But you won't without this.

But also annoying when your domain is very similar to another business and you keep getting their emails because of typos.

My email address at my hosted domain is like jsmith@jsmith.com, and I have a catchall so I can get mail for *@jsmith.com

Someone eventually bought jsmith.net for his business and now I get a lot of mail meant for jacob@jsmith.net sent to my jsmith.com domain.

Fortunately he uses just the one address and now I set up an autoforwarding rule to forward his jacob@ emails to him.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by pabs3 »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #86
jwkerr wrote: post #10

Over the past few weeks I've been systematically migrating every one of my accounts to a domain under my control. During the process I've been marking them in a spreadsheet with their 2FA status (no 2FA, TOTP, security key, etc.) and adding their passwords to a password manager. This is all in case I ever need to go through the migration process again for whatever reason, or if I lose/break a Yubikey, I will know wha…

Two factor tokens that can't be backed-up create stupid make-work. Wouldn't it be great if Yubico let you back-up and restore a Yubikey? It's maddening that they haven't come up with a reasonable way to allow a purchaser to register multiple Yubikeys to enable freely restoring backups between them. (Think of if analogously to buying multiple padlocks keyed the same from the factory.) I'd prefer to be able to just set…

Passkeys can be if you use KeePassXC to generate and store them.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 »

I have the opposite thoughts on email domains.

Personal email domains makes you very identifiable just by lookung at your domain.

Using aliasing services (e.g. Mozilla Relay, Addy.io, etc.) with their default address generation ensures your email address itself does not disclose your domains when the eventual data breach occurs.

Plus catch-all addresses makes you an easy target for spam by sending to any email address on that domain vs need to know specific email address on typical email services.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by daveidol »

paranoidrobot wrote: post #113
jrm4 wrote: post #37

Been doing this for years, and surprised he didn't seem to mention the other benefit: "infinity" email addresses. Oh, rando burger spot wants an email for some free fries? Great, hit me up at randoburgerspot@"mydomain".com .

I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address. It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet supplies online a while ago registered like this. Then I go in store more recently and they ask "Do you have an account with us?", I give them that email when asked, which causes them to paus…

That’s pretty funny.

If you use a password manager you could obviously just put something random instead of the company name.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by daveidol »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #57
jrm4 wrote: post #37

Been doing this for years, and surprised he didn't seem to mention the other benefit: "infinity" email addresses. Oh, rando burger spot wants an email for some free fries? Great, hit me up at randoburgerspot@"mydomain".com .

Spamgourmet lets you do this for free without your own domain, and has other great features also.

Lots of these services get their domains blocklisted eventually, sadly.
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