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Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by iamnothere »

cassianoleal wrote: post #38
iamnothere wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why you (1) keep a local backup and (2) never ever use shady registrars for anything important. Hopefully you have learned from this and you regularly backup your email from Google in case your account becomes inaccessible for whatever reason.

I think the main worry about losing access to email is not losing access to your historical archive of email messages, but rather your sudden inability to reset passwords and recover access to other accounts. Not to mention the risk that someone else takes possession of said email accounts and domains, in which case they essentially own every account you have that's bound to that email.

The archives can be quite important, I frequently have to reference my email history for one reason or another. If I temporarily cannot receive new email, it’s not such a big deal as long as we aren’t talking about hostile account takeovers. But mostly I use self-hosted services so even that wouldn’t be the end of the world. It would be annoying to deal with, yes.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by iamnothere »

brulard wrote: post #41
iamnothere wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever lost a domain? I haven’t despite having many domains across a number of registrars over the years. Are people just using bad registrars or what?

Yes, I have. Due to a human mistake we lost a family domain, where I hosted one of my important e-mails.

Sorry to hear that. Some registrars let you pre pay for multiple years now, it’s a good idea if you have a crucial domain that you know you will be holding onto.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by IlikeKitties »

bxsioshc wrote: post #31

I never really understood why "owning" a domain is any more owning than you own your Gmail address: a company is letting you use it and that works until they don't. What an I missing?

You aren't missing much only that domains are a bit more portable between registrars and they've historically been a bit more resistant against random bannings.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by jrm4 »

imiric wrote: post #43
jrm4 wrote: post #37

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 like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...

What? It's your opportunity to nerd out and lecture people on why they're doing email WRONG!!!

(only half joking)

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by iamnothere »

bxsioshc wrote: post #31

I never really understood why "owning" a domain is any more owning than you own your Gmail address: a company is letting you use it and that works until they don't. What an I missing?

> What an I missing?

The contractual requirements that ICANN imposes upon registrars. They can’t just take your domain for any old reason. The rules are fairly well defined and registrars can lose their accreditation if they do not follow them.

https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-regis...

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by jcynix »

imiric wrote: post #43
jrm4 wrote: post #37

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 like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...

Easy, just remove the vowels from the local part of the address: rndbrgr@example.com

Even easier: I have a list of pre-generated fantasy addresses on my smartphone and can pass one to randoburgerspot on the fly.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by hungryhobbit »

jrm4 wrote: post #37

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 .

Spamgourmet lets you do this for free without your own domain, and has other great features also.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by bks »

Forwarding emails is problematic especially if your provider for the primary mx does not have great spam filtering and then you end up sending spam to your backup account.

It certainly does not get around the ...if your account gets banned maybe the forwards will still work... concept but in general something like https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to backup your email and then add them to a typical backup process with your other files works well.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by qyckudnefDi5 »

Anyone wanna share their email strategy? I'm thinking of going for the following but I'm still undecided:

1. 1 custom domain (.com): this will be used for friends, family and any online accounts that know me IRL.

Use Fastmail masked addresses with my custom domain where it makes sense like an online account for amazon.

2. 1 custom domain (.xyz): this will be used for a blog, professional IRL interviews, correspondence, github.

Use Fastmail masked addresses with my custom domain where it makes sense.

3. Masked emails using fastmail.com: for online accounts that are ephemeral, random newsletter signups etc. Don't want to associate any of my custom domains or IRL identity. Don't care if these are portable.

My main goals are:

- Separate my online identity/alias used for my blog (2) from gov entities, banks etc (1).

- for more anonymity/privacy use the fastmail.com domain with masked addresses to blend in with others on this domain.

I'd love feedback and to read what you do if you want to share :)

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