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I'd say its one level beyond. Since "+" is so widely used, as talked about in the article, its trivial to remove. However with a non-standard domain and inconsi
by samschooler 4y ago
I'd say its one level beyond. Since "+" is so widely used, as talked about in the article, its trivial to remove. However with a non-standard domain and inconsistent username its not as easy to remove. These are some of the formats I use, they all offer exactly what I need (uniqueness, hard to programmatically attach to another, and culpability):
lyft@account.example.com
liftcarshare@example.com
email@lyft.com.example.com
example.com@com.lyft.example.com
- anonporridge 4y agoI would personally go one level further. Generate random email addresses so you can't easily guess what others I might have given out. Then keep track of the mapping. A service like simplelogin.io makes this easy.
- ZetaZero 4y agoFastMail does something like this. Their Masked Emails are two random words plus a four digit number.
- caust1c 4y agoBeen using this feature since they introduced it and can say that I'm very pleased with it so far in combination with it's 1password integration. When creating an account somewhere, fastmail automatically generates a new email for the site via an API in one click. Highly recommend.
- bosie 4y agoicloud and also fastmail do this for you
- sereguze 4y agoWhat about base58 encoding their company name.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoCaesar cypher.
- turboponyy 4y agoWhat I usually do is servicename + 6 to 10 random numbers. This way I can see the intended recipient whilst avoiding people being able to check where I've signed up.
- t_mann 4y agoWhy not use the numbers to encode the creation date?
- turboponyy 4y agoYou certainly could, though I don't particularly care about the creation date - additionally, this is something that I can do easily by hand. E: Ah, I didn't see the schema one of the parent commenters suggested - your question makes a lot more sense now. I still don't really care about the creation date, though, but I do care about the email having a random component, since if someone were to figure out my naming schema, they could check whether I've signed up for any given service.
- t_mann 4y agoGreat idea with the subdomain! May I ask how you do it? Also, one idea for you: how about using created20220621@company.example.com?
- samschooler 4y agoFastmail allows for wildcat (J)IMAP addresses. It a *.example.com MAIL record in dns with a supported (J)IMAP server.