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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 roguas »

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…

If you use gmail you can attach + to your mail address. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo... This ignores the rest, you can program, cancel, block your emails based on that pattern. Works well enough.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by mulmen »

masklinn wrote: post #271
mulmen wrote: post #239

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> On the other hand, if you have a relatively common name it avoids people giving your email address then behaving aggressively when you tell them to stop. I’ve had a few friends hit this issue. I’m sorry, I can’t parse this. Can you try again? I used @ . My name was never involved in the address.

> I used @ . My name was never involved in the address. That's the point, if you don't use your name in your address, you can't be @ , which third parties will provide as their email, Because I use the same scheme you do I've never had that issue, but several friends with common names have hit the issue having registered to more "normal" hosts, often as somewhat early adopters and thus having gotten their pick.

> That's the point, if you don't use your name in your address, you can't be @, which third parties will provide as their email,

I’m still not following. Who is this third party and what does it have to do with a confused receptionist?

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by tekknik »

josephg wrote: post #277
tekknik wrote: post #274

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The NGO could also force people to sign their emails. Refuse it from the SMTP if it’s not.

Are you being serious right now? You understand that that'll never happen in our current technology landscape, right? Outside of a few niche hardcore technologists, nobody knows what PGP is or how to use it. It would be hard enough getting my mum set up to PGP sign her own emails in Outlook, on the desktop and from her phone. (Is that even possible?). Let alone require anyone emailing her PGP sign their email too? Th…

This is just incorrect. Amazon for instance does this.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by nvarsj »

beeboop wrote: post #140
rootusrootus wrote: post #68

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I do a simplified version of this. I just use a catchall account with Fastmail and then pick email addresses in the domain randomly. If someone abuses the address, I block it. I specifically do not use addresses that make it obvious what my strategy is. I end up just using a name and number that would look right at home on gmail. I'm also not trying to stop tracking, so much as I'm trying to have my own semi-permanen…

I've been happily using fastmail for years and I think I'm going to be forced to stop. My outbound emails are constantly getting caught in spam and it recently cost me a job offer.

I wonder if you can provide more context. I've only had issues when I tried to use external domains, e.g. gmail, as my reply-to when sending in fastmail.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by quenix »

fwr wrote: post #110
quenix wrote: post #104

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I'm not sure how one would do that? You cannot create Hide My Email addresses purely to send mail. Your company would have to first send mail to that address, and then the person behind it may reply

Of course you can: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/hide-your-email-address-mai...

Oh, had no idea!

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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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!

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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by strboul »

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

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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!

StartMail supports a form of this called as "aliases" with the StartMail domain.

https://www.startmail.com/

(Disclosure: I work at StartMail.)

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