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My first thought is that you have an enemy who is messing with your online accounts. Try creating a new email, and do not give anyone that email, keep it secre
by readme 5y ago
My first thought is that you have an enemy who is messing with your online accounts.
Try creating a new email, and do not give anyone that email, keep it secret. Use this email to sign up for all new accounts. It will be a laborious process, but it's worth a try. If you want to be super paranoid rule out remote access to your devices or computers too -- get a new phone and do everything on there.
- core-utility 5y agoEven better, while you're making a new email, get a domain name and attach it to a service like Fastmail. Create a wildcard rule to forward anything @yourdomain.com to you, and start changing services to be facebook@yourdomain.com, fidelity@yourdomain.com, etc.
- Extropy_ 5y agoThat's an intriguing idea. Do you think you could go into a little bit more detail on how to do that?
- sneak 5y agoI wrote a blog post with step by step instructions: https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/ https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/
- Extropy_ 5y agoThanks. Nice title by the way.
- holigot 5y agoHi, I know it. You're using Protonmail in the post. But overall you're a Fastmail user. So why recommending Protonmail and using Fastmail?
- core-utility 5y agoYou may be confusing the person you're replying to with me, who initially recommended Fastmail. Personally, I chose Fastmail over Protonmail for features and pricing. I didn't need the PM->PM encryption that Protonmail offers, at least not for my primary email. Fastmail was more feature-rich everywhere else.
- core-utility 5y agoSomeone else answered with their blog post, but I'll go into high level: 1. Register domain name (Namecheap, Route53, Google Domains, etc.) 2. Sign up for Fastmail, choose at least "Standard" plan to support custom domain. Sign up with <yourdesiredname>@<yourdomain>. This will more or less serve as your "main" email. I use <firstname>@<domain> 3. In Fastmail settings, add your domain. Fastmail will guide you through the MX and TXT records that need to be added and how to do it. 4. (This may be done by default in Fastmail): Set up an "Alias" to configure *@<domain> to deliver to your email. 5. Start changing your accounts to whateveryouwant@<domain> The "to" field of any received email will always show what is being sent to, even in third party clients. You can then also configure rules and filters based on the "to" field. In the Fastmail clients (web and mobile), you can also reply from the same address that an email was sent to. In IMAP clients, it'll reply from your actual registered address (such as <firstname>@<domain>)