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Ask HN: Can you recommend a personal email provider with regex aliases?
Hi HN, my email provider pulled a fast one on me over the weekend - overhauling their UI and dropping their regex alias functionality without warning. Not what you want from a paid service.
I very successfully operate a <site>.<date>.<nonce>@<mydomain> schema for personal email, using regex aliases to manage "users", and blacklists to eliminate spam. The largest draw of this schema is detecting when companies are breached / leak my data (4 times in 6 years), and when some company misuses information I gave them for something else (countless times).
I also use it to manage alerts and priorities for a handful of custom systems to special mailboxes.
Not every email provider can support such a schema, and until today I was very happy with mine - charging only for a ceiling on daily sends and total mailbox size with unlimited mailboxes.
I don't want to go back to managing my own email (though if I have to I will) - do you guys have any recommendations?
- tucaz 7y agoDoesn’t a simple catch all work for you?
- Normal_gaussian 7y agoFor a basic case it would; however I also drop certain combinations by default (/.*\.blackhole@/), prioritise certain mail (synology boxes, and services/people I am waiting on are aliased to a specific mailbox which vibrates my phone), aggregate other mail (todo's go to their own mailbox for example), and offer a disposable mail mailbox for my partner. I was perhaps a tad simplistic with my initial description; I didn't want to bog it down with the detail. In addition the implementation of catch alls on most services tend to circumvent blacklists (which I would like to do on receiver email address, not sender) and to catch mail destined for deliberately independent mailboxes.
- jfowl 7y agouberspace.de They use qmail and I did something rather similar for myself.
- troydavis 7y agoFastMail supports regex matching any header, including To/CC/BCC: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/regexprules.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/regexprules.html Multiple rules can be ANDed or ORed as well, if you don’t want to make a single regex that’s more complex. They use - and expose - Sieve: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve-howto.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve-howto.html