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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 .
You don’t have to have a single email address. I have plenty and various providers. Then use mail client instead of webmail. I use thunderbird and have multiple boxes I just backup Thunderbird profiles folder to my NAS.
Local mail clients are excellent for taking full control of your mail without contortions.
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Firefox/Mozilla and Apple both offer services along these lines.
I was thinking of something that would work with a personal domain, with a mail server that I (indirectly) control. It would maintain a small pool of immediately-available addresses, since there might be latency in setting up a new one. When I need it, one is removed from the pool, recorded with metadata (e.g. purpose, duration, who to blame if it gets spammed), and in the background the process is started to restock…
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So they don't charge for emails if they are forwarded? Do you have a link where they describe underscore aliases?
I use their "Advanced" billing mode which is usage-based and ended up cheaper than the fixed-price "Simple" mode. This was my bill for last month (received ~300 emails): 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 They don't actually support w…
https://purelymail.com/docs/features
"Subaddressing allows you to tag the email addresses you give out. […] This also works with example_tagged@purelymail.com (in fact, everything after the first symbol- anything not a letter- in an address is ignored for routing) […]"
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Local mail clients are excellent for taking full control of your mail without contortions.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?
To have copy of all your mails locally or to back them up to NAS, having desktop mail client is much easier way than setting up mail server.
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ah! the fathers of slop vibe code: copy paste coders. the "validate email input regex" that mistakenly rejects plus sign have been copy pasted for so long it might live on forever.
Could be by design. They want you using your main gmail address and not signing up multiple times.
I've self hosted my email forwarding service on my own domain for over a decade, but eventually gave up because of deliverability issues that were out of my control - primarily with Microsoft's email services. I've switched 3 years ago to a hosted forwarding service forwardemail.net Pros: * Allows to switch email providers if needed * Allows to forward email to multiple providers * Allows to store backups of emails *…
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Mine is me@[fullname].[tld] and I still kind of regret it because no one expects such a short set of characters before the @ sign. Even many websites don't. It's never been rejected but rather it breaks basic personal details masking. Because they often mask an email address replacing all but the first and last characters of the username portion with asterisks and leaving the domain fully exposed... Not to mention th…
Hmmm I've had websites not accept mine but I'm still not sure why. Maybe it's the .dev . Cheapo regex
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…