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> 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’v

by 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 ago
Yep 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    That'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 ago
      You know you can have a reliable custom domain hosted by companies like fastmail right?
jimmydorry 5y ago
Same 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.

by dahart 5y ago

nikau 5y ago

Yep 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 ago
I 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 ago
  That'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 ago
    You know you can have a reliable custom domain hosted by companies like fastmail right?

jimmydorry 5y ago

Same 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.