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How do you do this ?

kaybe 9y ago
Get an account at mailhero.io. Works well for me so far.
Mister_Snuggles 9y ago
With some email providers you can add something after your email address like this: realemailaddress+myfitnesspal@example.com Or: realemailaddress+0f3eda@example.com The assumption here is that you have something to keep track of what code you've assigned to what service. Of course, some services don't allow a + in the email address so this only goes so far. If you want to get slightly fancier, you could use your own domain and a catchall alias that sends everything to your real mailbox. That lets you use an address that doesn't have any obvious relationship to your real email address, apart from the domain name. If you want to get ultra fancy, you could run your own mail server and set up a process to generate unique email addresses on the fly and keep track of which service was given which address. This is really just attaching some automation to the previous example, possibly using 'real' mailboxes for the incoming email.
JimDabell 9y ago
The way most people do this is with plus addressing. If your mail provider supports it (e.g. Gmail does), you can send email to someuser+somewebsite@example.com and it will be delivered to someuser@example.com. There are a minority of websites and apps that reject emails like that, but they are quite rare and the vast majority don't have any issue with it. If you have your own domain name, you can set up a catch-all address, so if you own example.com, then you can register on websites and in apps with somewebsite@example.com instead. This works everywhere. You can then look at what email address an email was addressed to to see how the sender got hold of your email address, and you can filter and block future emails based on that address as well. So if, for instance, you've registered with MyFitnessPal with myfitnesspal@example.com, then you can cut off everybody who's got hold of your email address via the MyFitnessPal breach with 100% effectiveness using one spam rule.

Get an account at mailhero.io. Works well for me so far.

With some email providers you can add something after your email address like this: realemailaddress+myfitnesspal@example.com Or: realemailaddress+0f3eda@example.com The assumption here is that you have something to keep track of what code you've assigned to what service. Of course, some services don't allow a + in the email address so this only goes so far. If you want to get slightly fancier, you could use your own domain and a catchall alias that sends everything to your real mailbox. That lets you use an address that doesn't have any obvious relationship to your real email address, apart from the domain name. If you want to get ultra fancy, you could run your own mail server and set up a process to generate unique email addresses on the fly and keep track of which service was given which address. This is really just attaching some automation to the previous example, possibly using 'real' mailboxes for the incoming email.

JimDabell 9y ago

The way most people do this is with plus addressing. If your mail provider supports it (e.g. Gmail does), you can send email to someuser+somewebsite@example.com and it will be delivered to someuser@example.com. There are a minority of websites and apps that reject emails like that, but they are quite rare and the vast majority don't have any issue with it. If you have your own domain name, you can set up a catch-all address, so if you own example.com, then you can register on websites and in apps with somewebsite@example.com instead. This works everywhere. You can then look at what email address an email was addressed to to see how the sender got hold of your email address, and you can filter and block future emails based on that address as well. So if, for instance, you've registered with MyFitnessPal with myfitnesspal@example.com, then you can cut off everybody who's got hold of your email address via the MyFitnessPal breach with 100% effectiveness using one spam rule.