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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 vernie »

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…

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by MrRiddle »

vernie wrote: post #41
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…

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

It’s trivial to figure out main gmail address?

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by binwiederhier »

vernie wrote: post #41
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…

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

Honestly, probably not a whole lot.

Though I had originally made this because with the "+" approach, you can easily get the original address by simply removing everything after the "+", while with mine you cannot. On top of that, sometimes "+" does not work in services that do "strict email validation".

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by Kwpolska »

gzer0 wrote: post #34

The only thing really holding me back from wanting to use iCloud mailing services is the current implementation of MFA on Apple services. It would be fine if you were allowed to use normal MFA options, but no, that is not possible. Instead, you MUST confirm your logins via already signed in Apple-devices only. There is no other way. Cannot use phone number (for good reason, but that is besides the point), cannot have…

SMS is available as a fallback 2FA method for Apple ID.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

#46

Post by [deleted] »

vernie wrote: post #41
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…

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by webmobdev »

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…

And, if the email service is also self-hosted, it prevents Apple from collecting more data about your interests and purchases through your email, which it uses to profile you (to determine how to extract more money from you).

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

#48

Post by webmobdev »

vernie wrote: post #41
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…

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

Some services do not accept email with a "+" in it.

Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

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Post by submeta »

Been using individual email adresses for each website I signed up for by using Fastmail.com‘s email aliasses. - Previously I had a second email address just for sign ups, but whenever a platform was hacked and user data was leaked, my email address was burned.

So yes, this feature is super useful, and kudos to Apple for introducing this to their customer base.

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