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Is there any email service that can be used in concert with a password keeper like 1Pass or LastPass to generate unique email addresses in addition to unique pa

by tcbawo 5y ago

Is there any email service that can be used in concert with a password keeper like 1Pass or LastPass to generate unique email addresses in addition to unique passwords per site? I think this might be a nice way of improving privacy and safeguarding email from spam, or at least help identifying the source of leaks.

jackvalentine 5y ago
I feel a bit silly saying this but did you know fastmail do that?
scblock 5y ago
Fastmail recently announced a collaboration with 1Password: https://www.fastmail.com/1password/ https://www.fastmail.com/1password/
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mwint 5y ago
I own my own domain, and thus have the luxury of using *@domain.com as my email. So when I give an email to SketchySite.com, it’s sketchysite@domain.com. Really easy, and costs me very little to do (CloudFlare is my registrar; Fastmail my email host). Highly recommend you buy a domain for email. Looks professional, too.
- taftster 5y ago
  Plus you're not locked into one email provider, instead of dying addresses on hotmail, yahoo, aol and gmail.
- gzer0 5y ago
  Unfortunately if you do not fully own your own ICANN registrar, for example, like Facebook [1], then your domain remains open to the weakest link: humans and social engineering [2]. An Njal.la hosted domain was successfully transferred to Namecheap (through no fault of Njal.la). Obviously, this is very rare and extremley targeted. [1] https://registrarsec.com/ https://registrarsec.com/ [2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-order-dark-web-markets https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-...
- saxonww 5y ago
  I do this too, with Fastmail, but they do have a limit on how many aliases you can have without paying them more (last I checked). The way around this is that they let you do alias+something@domain.com, or for sites that won't accept a plus address, alias@something.domain.com. This works very well for me, although I get funny looks when some vendor asks me for an email address and I give them e.g. alias@your_company.domain.com. Especially fun when you end up having to spell it out while the clerk eyeballs you like you're trying to screw with them. I started doing this thinking it would let me identify who was selling/leaking emails to spammers. I now have a lot of unique email addresses like this, one per vendor. Fastmail is either excellent at filtering spam without me ever seeing it, or vendors just aren't selling/leaking my address(es); the only 'vendor' that I'm sure distributed my address after 3+ years is a state government entity.
  - mwint 5y ago
    I just went and checked, I have only a single Fastmail alias: *@domain.com. I’m on the Standard plan.
    - saxonww 5y ago
      It never occurred to me to pass a *, thanks for pointing this out! It looks like all tiers can do 600 + 15 per user; I don't remember if it's always been like this, but I was pretty sure there was a limit. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073 https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073
      - blitzar 5y ago
        https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Catchall-Wildcard-aliases https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca... Looks like a subtle difference between alias, with its outbound identity, and catchall inbound.
  - donarb 5y ago
    Currently, Fastmail's limit is 600 aliases per account for all three payment levels.
sdan 5y ago
apple keychain + apple icloud relay?
fastball 5y ago
Technically you can already do this with gmail using the +tag trick, e.g. myemail+tag@gmail.com, where the "tag" can be the name of the website you are signing up for. The emails will all go to your myemail@gmail.com account, but they'll be tagged with the tag.
- Kye 5y ago
  A lot of websites reject that despite it being part of the standard.
glial 5y ago
If your email dress is firstname@domain.com, Fastmail redirects e-mail sent to mysite@firstname.domain.com to your inbox. For example, if your e-mail is bob@dole.com, you could register on Facebook with facebook@bob.dole.com, and e-mails to that address would show up in your inbox.

by tcbawo 5y ago

jackvalentine 5y ago

I feel a bit silly saying this but did you know fastmail do that?

scblock 5y ago

Fastmail recently announced a collaboration with 1Password: https://www.fastmail.com/1password/ https://www.fastmail.com/1password/

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mwint 5y ago

I own my own domain, and thus have the luxury of using *@domain.com as my email. So when I give an email to SketchySite.com, it’s sketchysite@domain.com. Really easy, and costs me very little to do (CloudFlare is my registrar; Fastmail my email host). Highly recommend you buy a domain for email. Looks professional, too.

taftster 5y ago
Plus you're not locked into one email provider, instead of dying addresses on hotmail, yahoo, aol and gmail.
gzer0 5y ago
Unfortunately if you do not fully own your own ICANN registrar, for example, like Facebook [1], then your domain remains open to the weakest link: humans and social engineering [2]. An Njal.la hosted domain was successfully transferred to Namecheap (through no fault of Njal.la). Obviously, this is very rare and extremley targeted. [1] https://registrarsec.com/ https://registrarsec.com/ [2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-order-dark-web-markets https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-...
saxonww 5y ago
I do this too, with Fastmail, but they do have a limit on how many aliases you can have without paying them more (last I checked). The way around this is that they let you do alias+something@domain.com, or for sites that won't accept a plus address, alias@something.domain.com. This works very well for me, although I get funny looks when some vendor asks me for an email address and I give them e.g. alias@your_company.domain.com. Especially fun when you end up having to spell it out while the clerk eyeballs you like you're trying to screw with them. I started doing this thinking it would let me identify who was selling/leaking emails to spammers. I now have a lot of unique email addresses like this, one per vendor. Fastmail is either excellent at filtering spam without me ever seeing it, or vendors just aren't selling/leaking my address(es); the only 'vendor' that I'm sure distributed my address after 3+ years is a state government entity.
- mwint 5y ago
  I just went and checked, I have only a single Fastmail alias: *@domain.com. I’m on the Standard plan.
  - saxonww 5y ago
    It never occurred to me to pass a *, thanks for pointing this out! It looks like all tiers can do 600 + 15 per user; I don't remember if it's always been like this, but I was pretty sure there was a limit. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073 https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073
    - blitzar 5y ago
      https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Catchall-Wildcard-aliases https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca... Looks like a subtle difference between alias, with its outbound identity, and catchall inbound.
- donarb 5y ago
  Currently, Fastmail's limit is 600 aliases per account for all three payment levels.

sdan 5y ago

apple keychain + apple icloud relay?

fastball 5y ago

Technically you can already do this with gmail using the +tag trick, e.g. myemail+tag@gmail.com, where the "tag" can be the name of the website you are signing up for. The emails will all go to your myemail@gmail.com account, but they'll be tagged with the tag.

Kye 5y ago
A lot of websites reject that despite it being part of the standard.

glial 5y ago

If your email dress is firstname@domain.com, Fastmail redirects e-mail sent to mysite@firstname.domain.com to your inbox. For example, if your e-mail is bob@dole.com, you could register on Facebook with facebook@bob.dole.com, and e-mails to that address would show up in your inbox.