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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 ricg »

JimDabell wrote: post #138
VTimofeenko wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried this approach. Unfortunately, some services will not accept plus sign in the username no matter what RFC says. On top of that, some services seem to not like seeing the service name in the username. I.e. foo.tld will refuse sending email to mailbox+foo@mydomain.tld.

Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.

Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by ComodoHacker »

Vinnl wrote: post #240
3np wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any thoughts on improving the situation on self-hosting? I've written about the situation for Firefox Accounts (FXA, a dependency of Relay if you don't want to use third-party hosted services) here before[0][1] and Relay looks kind of similar. When comparing Relay with the other two, I get the impression that SimpleLogin/AnonAddy actually interact with the community and understand that self-hosting is something peopl…

I can only speak for myself, but my honest answer would be that indeed, self-hosting probably won't be easy to do any time soon. We're trying to get a less technical audience to benefit from privacy protections too, and I don't think there's a good approach to get them to self-host as well, so focusing our limited time on other things is probably more effective. But who knows, actual use and user research do influenc…

>be able to see what code is running

Is there any way to verify what code is actually running on your servers?

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by lloeki »

ricg wrote: post #251
JimDabell wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.

Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!

Fastmail, can't recall if assuming you want to achieve something like name+tag@domain it would be name@tag.domain or tag@name.domain (IIRC the latter)

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by JimDabell »

ricg wrote: post #251
JimDabell wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.

Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!

You can do this with Fastmail by going to Settings => Domains => Edit => Routing.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by Jcowell »

makeitdouble wrote: post #185

For those using this feature for a long enough time, have you seen misfiring or emails that disappear, you couldn't retrieve ? When using keychain as a password manager, once in a while when creating a password for a new site, it would generate it and complete the account registration, without properly saving the generated password. I'd hunt for the site item through keychain's list and not find it, and go through th…

This situation was fixed in the latest update

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by drexlspivey »

JimDabell wrote: post #138
VTimofeenko wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried this approach. Unfortunately, some services will not accept plus sign in the username no matter what RFC says. On top of that, some services seem to not like seeing the service name in the username. I.e. foo.tld will refuse sending email to mailbox+foo@mydomain.tld.

Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.

AFAIK the only provider that supports that is Fastmail and it kinda defeats the purpose of using your own domain because if you are forced to migrate you are toast.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by paledot »

ricg wrote: post #251
JimDabell wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.

Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!

I do this with ProtonMail. I have it set on a subdomain, though: my regular email is email@example.com, while my account email is hackernews@email.example.com. This avoids the spam sent to asdf@everydomain.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by wvh »

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 did this too for many years. I recently reversed the filter logic from whitelist to blacklist since spam filters nowadays seem efficient enough that passing through `name*@domain.tld` by default and only blocking those few addresses that leak and start sending spam is less work.
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