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Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avo
by JimDabell 5y ago
Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use mailbox@foo.example.com instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.
- ricg 5y agoWhich mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!
- lloeki 5y agoFastmail, can't recall if assuming you want to achieve something like name+tag@domain it would be name@tag.domain or tag@name.domain (IIRC the latter)
- JimDabell 5y agoYou can do this with Fastmail by going to Settings => Domains => Edit => Routing.
- ricg 5y agoThanks a lot! I'll give it a try.
- paledot 5y agoI do this with ProtonMail. I have it set on a subdomain, though: my regular email is email@example.com, while my account email is hackernews@email.example.com. This avoids the spam sent to asdf@everydomain.
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- strboul 5y agoStartMail supports a form of this called as "aliases" with the StartMail domain. https://www.startmail.com/ https://www.startmail.com/ (Disclosure: I work at StartMail.)
- drexlspivey 5y agoAFAIK the only provider that supports that is Fastmail and it kinda defeats the purpose of using your own domain because if you are forced to migrate you are toast.