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Fastmail has an even better feature than this. If your main email is hello@example.com and you want to sign up to ‘randomsite’ you can just make up the email ra
by imron 7y ago
Fastmail has an even better feature than this. If your main email is hello@example.com and you want to sign up to ‘randomsite’ you can just make up the email randomsite@hello.example.com and it will go to your hello@example.com address.
When you’re sick of it, you can just filter randomsite@hello.example.com to the trash.
Doing this allows you to generate more or less random throwaway emails at the moment you need them, from a normal domain without any prior setup.
I consider this to be one of Fastmail’s killer features.
- gt2 7y agoSo it's like the feature gmail (and perhaps others) have that allows hello+randomsite@gmail.com. https://fastmail.blog/2018/10/01/use-unique-email-addresses-to-catch-companies-selling-your-data/ https://fastmail.blog/2018/10/01/use-unique-email-addresses-... That's great because occasionally email parsers on sites/apps don't accept emails with the + in them. Sounds good for throwaway emails and not using personal info, however overall, this still has a few problems: - your accounts on different services can easily be cross referenced in the event of a data leak, etc. They will all have @hello.example.com. - if you actually use hello@example.com for something important, that will be gleaned as well (worse, this is true even in the event of a data leak/hacker on a single service) since this rule/feature you explained is common knowledge. Seems the only way to overcome that is use a separate custom domain for any site you want to completely isolate, or a custom alias or new email on a major service for each.