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Been there done that. If you catch all e-mail you will also get a lot of spam to random addresses like say sven@marak.com, lollerskates95@marak.com and so on an

Been there done that. If you catch all e-mail you will also get a lot of spam to random addresses like say sven@marak.com, lollerskates95@marak.com and so on and so forth. So then you need spam filtering anyway, or you need to configure which addresses are valid. I still host my own e-mail but I no longer do catch-all. There are only a few sites and services I care about. For those I have trusted them with my e-mail address. For all others I use 3rd-party throwaway mail services. I get less spam now than I did with catch-all.

water42 9y ago
what kind of accounts do you use throwaway mail services for? the use case where NBox would be useful for me is sites I don't use often, i.e. a clothing site or online video game store. but i wouldn't trust those to a throwaway email
dannysu 9y ago
I actually haven't gotten any spam through my catch-all emails. Hopefully it stays that way. I use a completely different domain than the one that's publicly associated with me though. Maybe that helps.
amenod 9y ago
Or you can use hackernews.really@marak.com and reddit.really@marak.com and only forward *.really@marak.com. I have learned to keep a personal e-mail address for friends & somewhat trusted people, but never businesses. Businesses (and all government offices, kids' school,...) get their one-time address. If spammers somehow get to it, it is much easier to cut them off, and I also know who leaked the address to them. Of course, http://www.mailcatch.com/ http://www.mailcatch.com/ rules for those one-time "no, I will not let you spam me" registrations.
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e12e 9y ago
If you host your own domain you'll likely need spam filtering for abuse@ or at least postmaster@ (or ignore RFCs, like most unfortunately do..).
- eriknstr 9y ago
  I forward abuse@, security@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, webmaster@, info@ and dns-admin@ for my main domain, and actually mostly don't get any spam to any of them except from dns-admin@, which I have listed as contact in WHOIS for some of my domains.

water42 9y ago

what kind of accounts do you use throwaway mail services for? the use case where NBox would be useful for me is sites I don't use often, i.e. a clothing site or online video game store. but i wouldn't trust those to a throwaway email

dannysu 9y ago

I actually haven't gotten any spam through my catch-all emails. Hopefully it stays that way. I use a completely different domain than the one that's publicly associated with me though. Maybe that helps.

amenod 9y ago

Or you can use hackernews.really@marak.com and reddit.really@marak.com and only forward *.really@marak.com. I have learned to keep a personal e-mail address for friends & somewhat trusted people, but never businesses. Businesses (and all government offices, kids' school,...) get their one-time address. If spammers somehow get to it, it is much easier to cut them off, and I also know who leaked the address to them. Of course, http://www.mailcatch.com/ http://www.mailcatch.com/ rules for those one-time "no, I will not let you spam me" registrations.

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e12e 9y ago

If you host your own domain you'll likely need spam filtering for abuse@ or at least postmaster@ (or ignore RFCs, like most unfortunately do..).

eriknstr 9y ago
I forward abuse@, security@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, webmaster@, info@ and dns-admin@ for my main domain, and actually mostly don't get any spam to any of them except from dns-admin@, which I have listed as contact in WHOIS for some of my domains.