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Ask HN: What's your email strategy when you register for a new web thing?
Hello.
When I'm registering for a new service or some website with my email, sometimes I append thing like "+uk" so "example+uk@gmail.com". This is fine, but not perfect.
I want to start using my own domain email, and I am wondering how to go about doing this. I could just use the one email one my domain, or keep doing the "+" thing.
Another thought I had was make aliases like "hn@mydomain.com" that point to my one email.
The last idea I had was to make my one email the catch-all, and just do as above, using "hn@mydomain.com" without the need for an alias creation every time.
What is your strategy? How do you do this, what do you suggest, and why?
- fiiv 8y agoI personally do the last one (hn@mydomain.com with catchall). It works really well. I used to use gmail as my main address and all the emails from my own domain used to go through Mailgun with a catchall route for incoming mail (I also used it to send automated messages for my various projects from the same domain). I now use Protonmail and on the 2nd paid tier you can have a catchall address. The only downside of this approach is that if you ever want to reply or send mail from one of those alias addresses, it's a bit tricky. So if that's important for you, maybe try a different option, perhaps with the + method.
- pvinis 8y agoMostly it's for incoming mail. I will try that and if I need to reply then I might add an alias..