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The only reliable low maintenance solution is to get your own domain with a catch all mail service. Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make
by nikau 5y ago
The only reliable low maintenance solution is to get your own domain with a catch all mail service.
Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address like amazondotcom3823@yourdomain.com.
You can then just add rules for each incoming mail domain to send them to a junk folder, especially if it was was a one time transaction and subsequent emails are just going to be marketing junk.
It also lets you know who has had their mailing lists compromised as there is virtually zero chance someone would guess the email address like the example above.
- dahart 5y ago> Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address Does that work for you? Have you caught many companies sharing your address? I’ve been making unique addresses for a decade, and it has been a complete failure. I haven’t caught any companies sharing them, and it hasn’t stopped spam in the slightest. I’m not sure where spammers get my mail email address from, but they do, and so far I’m not seeing them get the individualized addresses, like ever.
- nikau 5y agoYep I've noticed a few, most of the breaches were disclosed to the public which is good. I've stopped using those services so I've just send them straight to trash now as they get non stop spam. Before setting up a catch all domain I had 3 distinct email addresses I used as high/medium/low priority which helped, but its much simpler with the catch all domain as it goes into the same inbox, just with different "To:" addresses that you can easily filter on - I just right click in outlook and select move all mail to recipient to junk. To be fair most of the mail I get is marketing and I could probably unsubscribe, its just easier to make a rule to filter them to junk.
- 13of40 5y agoI actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.
- throwawayboise 5y agoThat's actually brilliant. Wish I'd thought of it!
- atatatat 5y ago> as far as I know Literally everyone claiming they never miss emails in spam, never have delivery issues with their custom domains or mailservers, etc
- nikau 5y agoYou know you can have a reliable custom domain hosted by companies like fastmail right?
- jimmydorry 5y agoSame observation here. My first two email addresses were ruined by what I presumed were data leaks (I was getting hundreds of spam emails a day in the hotmail era). Since using unique addresses, I've only had two compromised with spam. The original email addresses still are firehoses of spam though.
- hda111 5y agoThis would be illegal in Germany where you must take notice of every email accepted by your email server. The junk folder doesn’t help because you would need to read through it nonetheless.
- oefnak 5y agoWhat do you mean? Why would it be harder to notice mails with a catch all in place?
- nikau 5y agoI'm not sure what German law forces Germans to read emails to a personal account which is the context of this thread. If you are a corporation using gmail then you will likely have emails going into a shared mailbox or public folder and have team members triage emails as sales lead, spam, upset customer, etc.
- swyx 5y agolol either this is a dumb rule or a very dumb interpretation of a rule, please link a source if you can.