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I did a cheap version of this where I didn't have to build anything but I could test out the concept because I thought it would be awesome and I thought I wante
by james_s_tayler 8y ago
I did a cheap version of this where I didn't have to build anything but I could test out the concept because I thought it would be awesome and I thought I wanted it.
Long story short it became problematic pretty quickly and I ditched it. You need to also be able to reply as that email address too etc. It's been done a bunch a times I understand.
- acqq 8y agoAnd, sadly, the more users use it the more chance that the big players start to ban such addresses. It actually happened with the anti-spam services I‘ve used, twice.
- Sharparam 8y agoFor my custom domain I set up a catch-all so *@sharparam.com gets routed to my main address. If I end up needing to reply from such an address I set up a proper alias for it (currently I use GSuite to manage it).
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoAnother alternative if you don’t have your own domain is to put a plus in the email address. The mail server will ignore anything after that plus, eg johnsmith+facebooklogin@gmail.com will have all email sent to johnsmith@gmail.com, but it will preserve the To header in the email. This is useful for detecting the origin of spam, however it’s trivial for a spammer or hacker to workaround (just strip the plus and anything after it before sending)
- albertgoeswoof 8y ago> It's been done a bunch a times I understand. Got any links to these services?