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Can you do this without running your own email server? If buying email service from a vendor, costs are usually per user (per address).
by glitchc 6y ago
Can you do this without running your own email server? If buying email service from a vendor, costs are usually per user (per address).
- mstade 6y agoI do this with FastMail aliases, works great!
- glitchc 6y agoAhh aliases. Still show up in the main account though. I guess they can be filtered as spam.
- the_pwner224 6y agoFastmail also has a catch all / wildcard option which I am using. You don't need to create aliases for every email; instead any email to *@mydomain.com goes to my single email inbox. And similarly I can send from anything@mydomain.com.
- jabroni_salad 6y agoI use a subdomain for it. Anything to that subdomain is marked as read and filed in the "spam-adjacent" folder. I'll look in there for transactional stuff and marketing bs never increments my unread counter. Only real people appear in my actual inbox and it's basically email nirvana.
- mstade 6y agoThe way I do it is I use a subdomain for any aliased email, e.g. vendor.com@account.mydomain.com and then I just have rules to move anything sent to account.mydomain.com to a separate folder, then it never shows up in the main mailbox unless I put it there myself. Works fine!
- MagnumPIG 6y agoI do it with the free email address that comes with my domain name. In this case I'm using gandi.net but I'm sure most domain name providers have a similar deal.
- PuffinBlue 6y agoYou can use aliases. You get 600 aliases with Fastmail for example. But really you could just set up a 'catch all' and have everything routed to one inbox, then use filters to filter the emails to separate folders. So emails to $PERMUTE1@domain.com could be filtered to a $PERMUTE1 folder, and so on.
- bad_user 6y agoFastmail supports "subdomain addressing" out of the box. So if the email address is ... user@domain.com ... then you can use ... <anything>@user.domain.com ... without setting up any extra aliases, Fastmail will just handle it as if it's for user@domain.com. And you can also reply from such addresses without extra configuration. On the desktop I use MailMate as my email client, which works great with dynamic aliases. The win is that you don't have to configure anything extra when signing up for some online service. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html You can do this in Google Suite btw, as you can configure a forwarding rule. The problem with Google Suite, last time I tried, is that they no longer want to sign emails with DKIM for such dynamic aliases, so you can receive emails just fine, but sending emails from such addresses is a problem if you have SPF/DKIM domain rules.
- myu701 6y agoThis is what I do, for both Fastmail and replicated for my own email domain.
- PuffinBlue 6y agoThat's good to know. I've only just switched 48 hours ago, so this is something I'll look at. I had them handle my DNS for that domain so I'm assuming this won't require any extra setup.
- battery_cowboy 6y agoOne Fastmail alias can be "(asterisk)@domain.tld", by the way, so you can send and receive emails to every address possible. When you send an email from the (asterisk) alias, you can type whatever you want in the from address box. I use their DNS as my primary DNS for all my domains so I can email to/from all of them easily like this. (asterisk) means the character itself, I can't figure out how to type one on this site though. Edit: this wasn't a feature 3 years ago, I only discovered this 4 months ago when I added a few domains to my account and they added the (asterisk) aliases for those automatically.
- jonshariat 6y agoIf you have gmail (not sure what other providers support this), you can use + or . in your email address and add anything you want. For example: myemail+twitter@example.com or myemail.youtube@example.com both go to myemail@example.com
- franky47 6y agoI do that with ProtonMail, however anybody with bad intentions can remove the suffix. But it helps tracing leaks and lazy spammers.
- elliekelly 6y agoSome email marketers are catching on to this approach though and automatically strip anything between “+” and the domain.
- bad_user 6y agoYou could do subdomain aliasing instead (with Fastmail, or with Google Suite if you try hard enough) and there's no way to detect and strip that, since it looks and feels like a normal address.
- craigds 6y agoIt can be detected, just takes a bit more work (look up the domain's nameservers, see if they point to fastmail, if so rewrite the email address)
- bad_user 6y agoDoes it work with a dot too? Is this a Google Suite thing?
- cesarferradas 6y agoIt works with a dot too, so: exampl.e@protonmail.com == example@protonmail.com == e.xample@protonmail.com This is a good guide on how you can leverage this technique to identify which website you signed up for, and who sold your email to third parties. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/7425v7/protonmail_supports_periods_in_email_addresses/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/7425v7/protonma...
- eemil 6y agoI do this on G Suite with a single license.
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- beart 6y agoI use fast mail with a custom domain.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoYes. easyDNS offers this service. They call it a "catch all mailmap." You also need your "real" mail server ISP to be okay with getting unlimited addresses forwarded to them. Some ISPs don't like it because it makes SPF more difficult. https://kb.easydns.com/knowledge/mailmaps/ https://kb.easydns.com/knowledge/mailmaps/
- pcmaffey 6y agoI do this with migadu.com, as it gives you unlimited domains and addresses. Happy customer.