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I've been doing this for awhile. It's especially interesting when giving it to a representative in person, some people will refuse to enter it in their systems.
by c22 9y ago
I've been doing this for awhile. It's especially interesting when giving it to a representative in person, some people will refuse to enter it in their systems. I've also had one webform reject it outright. Lately I've started just using random words to get around this awkwardness and make my pattern less predictable. When I get the first email from that company (often happens within minutes) I just give it the actual company's name as an alias in my client.
- janwillemb 9y agoThey often ask me: do you work for <company> too?
- Xylakant 9y agoor "you can't have that email address, that's our companies name."
- lorenzhs 9y agoAliExpress does this, they don't accept "aliexpress@foo.bar". I suppose it's meant to stop you from providing "foo@aliexpress.com", implemented lazily by rejecting anything that contains the substring "aliexpress". Best response I've received when giving an email address of the form "company@mydoma.in" to a representative in person was "oh you work here too?". The concept of catch-all domains is so foreign to most laypeople that it takes quite some explaining ("I get everything that's sent to any address at that domain", "no it's not expensive at all", "it helps me automatically sort my email").
- user5994461 9y ago>>> I suppose it's meant to stop you from providing "foo@aliexpress.com", implemented lazily by rejecting anything that contains the substring "aliexpress". Most likely it is to stop you from making an address with "aliexpress" in it, so you don't look like affiliated to aliexpress in any way (think: phishing).
- wiredfool 9y agoA catchall on my domain was all fun and games till the second dictionary spam run.
- jawns 9y agoThe way I get around that is by having a static keyword that must also appear on the user side of the email address. So, if I'm dealing with Walmart, I would give them: [keyword].walmart@example.com or walmart.[keyword]@example.com Then I configure my catch-all settings to reject any email addresses that don't have that keyword. Of course, the keyword is not secret, so it's possible for someone to infer what I'm doing and construct an email address that passes my spam check, but in practice, nobody goes through the trouble, because I'm not a big enough target.
- wiredfool 9y agoYeah, I wound up using name-tag@domain, but because I used a dash rather than plus, I'm forever doomed to run my own mailserver. (fwiw, this domain is almost 20 years old, so that's forever in internet years)
- lorenzhs 9y agoI use my domain with FastMail, they support aliases and catch-all and lots of other nice things on custom domains. They also do DKIM, SPF, etc. So you don't have to run your own mail server if you don't want to ;) https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-setup-mxonly.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-setup-mxonly.h... https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-advanced.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-advanced.html
- wiredfool 9y ago