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You can setup wildcard alias in fastmail (https://fastmail.com https://fastmail.com) and literally create addresses on the fly when signing up/sharing your emai
by iyn 10y ago
You can setup wildcard alias in fastmail (https://fastmail.com https://fastmail.com) and literally create addresses on the fly when signing up/sharing your email.
- tocklime 10y agoFastmail has a really nice subdomains feature - I have an alias in fastmail of 'shop@mydomain.com'. Any email for XXX@shop.mydomain.com gets delivered to shop+XXX@mydomain.com. Better than catchall, because all the spam gets sent to JohnSmith@mydomain.com, which is dropped.
- iyn 10y agoWow, this is great feature, thanks for the tip! :)
- cm2187 10y agoBut you can't delete that alias if you start receiving spam on it, can you? Also like realemail+alias@gmail.com, this is really transparent to a spammer and gives away the real email.
- tocklime 10y agoThe benefit it has is that the 'shop.' subdomain can't be guessed from the DNS records. I get a lot of spam to <randomname>@mydomain.com. Of course, if someone sees my email address, they could certainly infer a new one. But I'll deal with that if and when I get singled out. I don't think the spammers often actually look at the millions of addresses they use. If I start getting spam on a particular alias, I can set up filtering rules to delete them.