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Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.c

by wycy 7y ago

Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.com? first@last.com? me@firstlast.com? Do you typically use multiple accounts?

Terretta 7y ago
Use a time machine and get first@last.com
- trevyn 7y ago
  If you're time machining, firstinitial@first.com is the way to go!
heywire 7y ago
first@firstlast.com for me. Happy FastMail user too.
codethief 7y ago
It took me a while to figure this out but I've now settled with the following: - mail@firstlast.tld for personal emails directed at me only and written by a human being, i.e. emails that warrant my personal response - <SomeServiceIsignedUpfor>@firstlast.tld for automated emails from services like Amazon, Facebook, eBay, HN, …. These are usually computer-generated emails that don't warrant a response, so they are merely notifications. The neat thing about this approach is that: a) the list of email aliases contains all the services I've signed up for, ever b) I can easily stop a service from sending me emails by simply deleting the alias. In particular, if an email address leaks to spammers, I simply delete it. c) I can distinguish between personal and non-personal email and can prioritize accordingly. I look at my personal emails more often than at my non-personal ones.
- knr2345 7y ago
  Do you have a method for quickly creating new aliases on the fly? My setup is nearly the same. I use two domains such as firstlast.tld and genericwords.tld. Genericwords.tld has umbrella aliases for social, apps, subscriptions, orders, etc. I have rules setup up per umbrella alias to delete after 30 days, or always mark as read, or never mark as read. I originally had service/site specific aliases in mind for easy deletion, but for my setup this creates a layer of friction that makes it quite cumbersome. I considered umbrella+servicename aliases but those are not always guaranteed to be accepted.
  - KitDuncan 7y ago
    Just use a catchall and you have to do nothing.
    - scintill76 7y ago
      You also get more spam, sent to sales@domain, john@domain, alex@domain...
      - KitDuncan 7y ago
        Never once got spam on an email I didn't give out.
  - codethief 7y ago
    Yes, umbrella+servicename sometimes causes issues as I had to learn the hard way, too. As for me, I use PostfixAdmin (https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin) to add aliases. Certainly not the quickest method but fairly quick I'd say. Clearly, it'd be even nicer if my password manager created an email alias for new accounts automatically.
thekyle 7y ago
For a while I had first@last.email but I got tired of paying for the last.email domain, so I now use contact@firstlast.com where I also use firstlast.com for my website. Also, I have a few other emails like accounts@firstlast.com (for signing up to websites), travel@firstlast.com, business@firstlass.com, etc. The way I have it set up is a wildcard *@firstlast.com and filters to move username@firstlast.com to a folder called username. So I can come up with new email addresses on the spot for specific purposes. Like when I go to the doctor I might give them health@firstlast.com
news_to_me 7y ago
I had a few email addresses for a while, and the one that I stuck with was created with the goal of being as short as possible (since back then, I had to type my email into sites on my phone a lot). I was lucky to get my initials as a domain, so I made it <z@zjm.me>. 8 characters – haven't seen a shorter one yet.
triyambakam 7y ago
I have first@arbitraryword as well as first@last.dev
sdan 7y ago
I have kind of a long last name and combined with the fact that many have said to only use .com for professional purposes (general public isn't so familiar with many other tlds), I do: firstname@firstname[first character of my last name].com Although... I do have firstname@sdan.io but unsure how "professional" that is, so I use it for other newsletters/subscriptions
rovr138 7y ago
I have first@firstlast.com I also have mynickname.com I use the mynickname.com one to signup to services and firstlast.com for personal.
marban 7y ago
mail@first.tld private + first@last.com business
chrismorgan 7y ago
For my personal domain, I use me@chrismorgan.info. *@chrismorgan.info will reach me, and occasionally I give out addresses with a different localpart, either privately (for things that require an email address and I grudgingly agree to) or publicly (for a particular project, for convenient automatic categorisation).
rolisz 7y ago
My domain is something that I've had for a long time and it's my preferred nick online (rolisz). The email address I give out to humans is then first@domain_name
benhurmarcel 7y ago
It depends on the availability of your preferred domain. Ideally I'd have used first@last.com. But since it wasn't available I use fl@firstlast.com (fl are the initials). The reason I use my initials instead of "me@" is because some clients show that username as the sender, and it didn't look good to have the sender be "me".

by wycy 7y ago

Terretta 7y ago

Use a time machine and get first@last.com

trevyn 7y ago
If you're time machining, firstinitial@first.com is the way to go!

heywire 7y ago

first@firstlast.com for me. Happy FastMail user too.

codethief 7y ago

It took me a while to figure this out but I've now settled with the following: - mail@firstlast.tld for personal emails directed at me only and written by a human being, i.e. emails that warrant my personal response - <SomeServiceIsignedUpfor>@firstlast.tld for automated emails from services like Amazon, Facebook, eBay, HN, …. These are usually computer-generated emails that don't warrant a response, so they are merely notifications. The neat thing about this approach is that: a) the list of email aliases contains all the services I've signed up for, ever b) I can easily stop a service from sending me emails by simply deleting the alias. In particular, if an email address leaks to spammers, I simply delete it. c) I can distinguish between personal and non-personal email and can prioritize accordingly. I look at my personal emails more often than at my non-personal ones.

knr2345 7y ago
Do you have a method for quickly creating new aliases on the fly? My setup is nearly the same. I use two domains such as firstlast.tld and genericwords.tld. Genericwords.tld has umbrella aliases for social, apps, subscriptions, orders, etc. I have rules setup up per umbrella alias to delete after 30 days, or always mark as read, or never mark as read. I originally had service/site specific aliases in mind for easy deletion, but for my setup this creates a layer of friction that makes it quite cumbersome. I considered umbrella+servicename aliases but those are not always guaranteed to be accepted.
- KitDuncan 7y ago
  Just use a catchall and you have to do nothing.
  - scintill76 7y ago
    You also get more spam, sent to sales@domain, john@domain, alex@domain...
    - KitDuncan 7y ago
      Never once got spam on an email I didn't give out.
- codethief 7y ago
  Yes, umbrella+servicename sometimes causes issues as I had to learn the hard way, too. As for me, I use PostfixAdmin (https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin) to add aliases. Certainly not the quickest method but fairly quick I'd say. Clearly, it'd be even nicer if my password manager created an email alias for new accounts automatically.

thekyle 7y ago

For a while I had first@last.email but I got tired of paying for the last.email domain, so I now use contact@firstlast.com where I also use firstlast.com for my website. Also, I have a few other emails like accounts@firstlast.com (for signing up to websites), travel@firstlast.com, business@firstlass.com, etc. The way I have it set up is a wildcard *@firstlast.com and filters to move username@firstlast.com to a folder called username. So I can come up with new email addresses on the spot for specific purposes. Like when I go to the doctor I might give them health@firstlast.com

news_to_me 7y ago

I had a few email addresses for a while, and the one that I stuck with was created with the goal of being as short as possible (since back then, I had to type my email into sites on my phone a lot). I was lucky to get my initials as a domain, so I made it <z@zjm.me>. 8 characters – haven't seen a shorter one yet.

triyambakam 7y ago

I have first@arbitraryword as well as first@last.dev

sdan 7y ago

I have kind of a long last name and combined with the fact that many have said to only use .com for professional purposes (general public isn't so familiar with many other tlds), I do: firstname@firstname[first character of my last name].com Although... I do have firstname@sdan.io but unsure how "professional" that is, so I use it for other newsletters/subscriptions

rovr138 7y ago

I have first@firstlast.com I also have mynickname.com I use the mynickname.com one to signup to services and firstlast.com for personal.

marban 7y ago

mail@first.tld private + first@last.com business

chrismorgan 7y ago

For my personal domain, I use me@chrismorgan.info. *@chrismorgan.info will reach me, and occasionally I give out addresses with a different localpart, either privately (for things that require an email address and I grudgingly agree to) or publicly (for a particular project, for convenient automatic categorisation).

rolisz 7y ago

My domain is something that I've had for a long time and it's my preferred nick online (rolisz). The email address I give out to humans is then first@domain_name

benhurmarcel 7y ago

It depends on the availability of your preferred domain. Ideally I'd have used first@last.com. But since it wasn't available I use fl@firstlast.com (fl are the initials). The reason I use my initials instead of "me@" is because some clients show that username as the sender, and it didn't look good to have the sender be "me".