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I think these are a great idea. The reason that people use that method is because it is free, and the suggested alternative costs money. I typically use throw
by omegabravo 7y ago
I think these are a great idea. The reason that people use that method is because it is free, and the suggested alternative costs money.
I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly.
I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago> I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly. The example above is about giving a direct line to be contacted through email on a personal site or blog, heck even a professional one. > I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand. I know at least ProtonMail does it. But also theres the email#tag@gmail.com trick that works nicely enough.
- myu701 7y agoFastmail lets you convert myusername@fastmail.com to whateverwebsiteorservice@myusername.fastmail.com It's not a literal alias, but it works out fine. One of these days I'm going to propose the Thunderbird + K-9 mail addons that say 'set the sent from email address to be equal to the sent to email address', that way if service@myusername.fastmail.com is the recipient, it will be the sender to any replies, rather than the MUA default replying with myusername@fastmail.com (but that's a separate discussion)
- asdkhadsj 7y agoI didn't know that was possible, really neat!