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FastMail doesn't have tags. What it does have? Let me copy/paste my comment from another thread: They have subdomain addressing, which is kind of like plus add

FastMail doesn't have tags. What it does have? Let me copy/paste my comment from another thread: They have subdomain addressing, which is kind of like plus addressing, but better (not all places let you sign up with plus addressing). I've got my own domain, for example: mydomain.com. So my fastmail email address is depingus@mydomain.com. But with subdomain addressing, I can sign up for services with unique email addresses that look like: social.hackernews@depingus.mydomain.com I don't have to set up this alias ahead of time. Fastmail will automatically route incoming messages arriving to this email address to my "social" folder. If I start getting junk to that address I can easily blacklist it. It wasn't easy switching out my email address EVERYWHERE. And there are places that won't even let me change it. But in the end, it was so worth it. I don't even miss Google Inbox anymore!

justsomehnguy 5y ago
You don't even need the subdomain addressing, a one catchall domain is enough (with you own domain). Eg: I want to register on HN - I would just register with hackernews@mydomain or hn.com.accounts@mydomain or whatever on the mailbox address side - it would be delivered to my main catchall mailbox anyway.
- discardedrefuse 5y ago
  When I set mine up, I went by their docs. It was pretty clear that the username becomes the catchall subdomain; whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plus-addressing-and-subdomain-addressing https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...
  - justsomehnguy 5y ago
    Sure, but it's needed if you have multiple users|mailboxes on the domain and you don't want to manually create the rules to forward mails for another users for each alias you|they had used. Because I'm the only user on the domain I don't need the subdomain addressing.
- deleted 5y ago
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massysett 5y ago
Fastmail now has labels. https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/ https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/
- discardedrefuse 5y ago
  That's awesome! I didn't know!
awill 5y ago
You don't have to have the alias set up ahead of time, but you do need DNS set up for every subdomain you want, which means you can't just do it for every signup/account
- discardedrefuse 5y ago
  The catchall subdomain is your username. You do have to setup your DNS a certain way. But its a one time thing. whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plus-addressing-and-subdomain-addressing https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...

justsomehnguy 5y ago

You don't even need the subdomain addressing, a one catchall domain is enough (with you own domain). Eg: I want to register on HN - I would just register with hackernews@mydomain or hn.com.accounts@mydomain or whatever on the mailbox address side - it would be delivered to my main catchall mailbox anyway.

discardedrefuse 5y ago
When I set mine up, I went by their docs. It was pretty clear that the username becomes the catchall subdomain; whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plus-addressing-and-subdomain-addressing https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  Sure, but it's needed if you have multiple users|mailboxes on the domain and you don't want to manually create the rules to forward mails for another users for each alias you|they had used. Because I'm the only user on the domain I don't need the subdomain addressing.
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massysett 5y ago

Fastmail now has labels. https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/ https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/

discardedrefuse 5y ago
That's awesome! I didn't know!

awill 5y ago

You don't have to have the alias set up ahead of time, but you do need DNS set up for every subdomain you want, which means you can't just do it for every signup/account

discardedrefuse 5y ago
The catchall subdomain is your username. You do have to setup your DNS a certain way. But its a one time thing. whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plus-addressing-and-subdomain-addressing https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...