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Some services will also ban you for this. Samsung, Amazon, ... so you have to use generic or random words on left side.
Been using this with Amazon and plenty of other services for decades, not sure where you’re coming from.
Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…
Mandatory reliance of services on other services (whether it is email, phone, or a more explicit identity provider) is generally unfortunate. I think it is best to not look for a perfectly reliable setup, as it is unachievable, but to keep in mind that they are not reliable, to have recovery plans and fallback options if possible, reduce dependence on online services, especially those depending on others. Though a personal domain name still seems more reliable to me than that of an email provider.
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There’s an attack where you get signed up for mass marketing emails and your mailbox gets flooded with emails from mostly legitimate companies. Say someone gets into an account you use to purchase stuff (Amazon, etc), but they don’t have access to your email account. They sign you up for this mail flood, then start buying stuff with your Amazon account, and legitimate notifications of purchases are lost in the noise…
I'm missing what purpose the high entropy alias does; from your description the attacker knows the email address and can still sign you up for mail flood?
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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
So they don't charge for emails if they are forwarded? Do you have a link where they describe underscore aliases?
Total: $0.35
Storage (GB/month): 0.00 ($0.00)
Emails sent to non-Purelymail accounts: 19 ($0.00)
Emails sent: 19 ($0.00)
Emails sent (GB): 0.00 ($0.00)
Yearly account fee (days): 30 ($0.33)
Shared-domain user fees: $0.02
Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…
For people reading this that are worried, .com and .net domains are price capped and while the price may rise, it's regulated directly by the ICANN. If you're paying more than that then either your registrar is not following ICANN regulations or you're buying a domain that is being resold by a third party.
Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…
I'm surprised to read they had an actual physical office you _could_ show up :) was it a very distant location to head out to?
(alternatives for other OS: https://alternativeto.net/software/mailsteward/)
Then I put the database on multiple backup locations regularly.
Another thing, some people do not already know: If you don't need a throwaway-adress for some services, and you just want to make your mailbox more structured, you can use '+' before the '@' to add another word to your email adress.
Like: your.name+randomName@gmail.com
The +randomName will be ignored and the emails are received at your.name@gmail.com. But most Servers (I use) will put a '[randomName]' before the subject of the received email. Which can be quite handy for handling your emails. Even more, if the company uses multiple different adresses to send you emails.
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I‘m following this scheme for years now and frankly never found a site that only accepts selected providers.
AliExpress is one of them, as far as I know
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I'm surprised to read they had an actual physical office you _could_ show up :) was it a very distant location to head out to?
It was some address in Warsaw, so if I needed that domain badly, it'd be one Ryanair flight away, and definitely an interesting experience :) But I was only using it for a small blog, so I just let it expire. I hoped I would be able to register it again immediately after it expires, but some scammers beat me to it (probably scanning for expiring domains with good reputation/SEO), so last time I checked, the domain is…