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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
by 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 agoI just went and checked, I have only a single Fastmail alias: *@domain.com. I’m on the Standard plan.
- saxonww 5y agoIt 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 agohttps://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 agoCurrently, Fastmail's limit is 600 aliases per account for all three payment levels.
- ekovarski 5y agoalias@something.domain.com This was a great feature of Fastmail but it isn't portable as many other mail providers don't support it. So if you think you might want to switch in the future, keep it in mind, the + addressing is easier to migrate to other providers.