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I've seen places that won't allow a "+" saying it's an invalid character.
I use PurelyMail to get email redirection with wildcard support. Costs $4/year when I use it with Gmail for the actual storage. I use an underscore so my addresses look like evidlo_[placholder]@example.com
What I’m slowly doing is staggering my addresses by importance - trying to separate personal from all the spam / registration / etc.
Saying that it’s probably been years since I used email to actually message someone.
I'm thinking about trying something similar to this on top of AWS SES. They make it fairly trivial to accept email and store it to S3. So email forwarding would be straight to S3 backup. But still would need a system to backup these emails to some local storage. Not sure what's the best way to handle this, I had my gmail account since the early days and it's baked into so many important accounts. It definitely crosse…
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…
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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.
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…
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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…
Ohhh good point. So many sites basically only accept gmail + some other popular provider.
As a bonus, if you install notmuch you get quick offline searches and can "mine" your email with shell scripts (or easily share it with sam altman if you're into that kind of thing).
(Alternatively, if you prefer being GUI, just install Thunderbird – this can also download your full imap and give you local search. You don't even have to use Thunderbird for it to be useful as a backup; it's probably the easiest way to quickly become more independent from google randomly deciding your account should be locked, which does happen.)
There are online services where a bad actor can enter your email to automatically sign you up for hundreds, thousands of marketing emails. In the event that that happens, given that you have full control over the domain, you could just divert whatever @yourdomain.com to a black hole. What will happen when email attacks become more advanced--to the point of signing up thousands of different @yourdomain.com? What strat…
About once a month I go and drop myself from the latest lists. There are many magazines and whatnot where you can sign someone up for 100+ mails a day. Only a very few of them send you a message you have to ack to start the flood. Most just start the firehose without checking.
I'd like to hear what other people do to address this.
There are online services where a bad actor can enter your email to automatically sign you up for hundreds, thousands of marketing emails. In the event that that happens, given that you have full control over the domain, you could just divert whatever @yourdomain.com to a black hole. What will happen when email attacks become more advanced--to the point of signing up thousands of different @yourdomain.com? What strat…
I already am in that situation. Like onions and Ogres, my email defense is in layers. 1. Specific known compromised TO addresses are sent to devnull. 2. Specific FROM senders are whitelisted. 3. Three or sometimes four heuristics engines evaluate. If any of them pass the mail, it goes to a separate new-senders inbox. I thus get maybe a dozen spam messages per week in that box - and five figures of messages rejected.…
We need a law that just like you are required to let people drop from a mailing list, there's a law requiring one ack or click on a link to join a list. I always get on legit lists that will stop once I request. But in a month I get 100+ new lists often sending me 10-50 messages a day.