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Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?

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Post by alxthm »

With a number of email providers you can create a number of email aliases that will redirect emails to your main inbox. This can allow you to filter incoming mail by having e.g. me@example.com, newsletters@example.com, signup@example.com. Some services allow you to have unlimited aliases (I'm thinking of https://simplelogin.io/), which makes it possible to create a new alias for every website you sign up for instance, and block the spam if you want to. And finally most services seem to support unlimited email extensions (e.g. signup+ebay@example.com, signup+spammy_website@example.com).

I'm curious about you organize your aliases/extensions?

Re: Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?

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Post by gostsamo »

For me, the main benefit from aliases is that in the case of a spammer, it is easy to know who leaked the address. The "+" is an actual part of the standard and it helps for self-organizing, but it is not useful against spam because it is okay to drop the +.* part (the mail will be delivered to the intended address).

Re: Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?

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Post by alxthm »

profstasiak wrote: post #5

I believe this thread was created to shill simplelogin.io. This is the first activity of OP on this site, simplelogin seems to be new company of 4 young cofounders.

Actually I have an older account (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexandrethm, also active on github and others), and I simply created this one since I wanted to change username (you can't with HN) and set-up a custom domain email with this new name.

I am not related to them, but I guess I probably should have included other links about services I was thinking to use, or no link at all.

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Post by bmarquez »

profstasiak wrote: post #5

I believe this thread was created to shill simplelogin.io. This is the first activity of OP on this site, simplelogin seems to be new company of 4 young cofounders.

I looked at that site, simplelogin is more expensive than iCloud+ and even Fastmail. They should probably rethink their pricing or feature set.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?

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Post by bmarquez »

alxthm wrote: post #7
profstasiak wrote: post #5

I believe this thread was created to shill simplelogin.io. This is the first activity of OP on this site, simplelogin seems to be new company of 4 young cofounders.

Actually I have an older account ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexandrethm , also active on github and others), and I simply created this one since I wanted to change username (you can't with HN) and set-up a custom domain email with this new name. I am not related to them, but I guess I probably should have included other links about services I was thinking to use, or no link at all.

BTW you can change your username by emailing hn@ycombinator.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?

#10

Post by alxthm »

bmarquez wrote: post #9
alxthm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually I have an older account ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexandrethm , also active on github and others), and I simply created this one since I wanted to change username (you can't with HN) and set-up a custom domain email with this new name. I am not related to them, but I guess I probably should have included other links about services I was thinking to use, or no link at all.

BTW you can change your username by emailing hn@ycombinator.com

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