Here's my strategy with fastmail. I think it's the best: 1. I allow wildcards only on a subdomain. The friendly alias on the top level domain is only for real

Here's my strategy with fastmail. I think it's the best: 1. I allow wildcards only on a subdomain. The friendly alias on the top level domain is only for real human beings I want to talk to, not robots or marketers. I don't allow cold messages to the subdomain into my inbox because of issues I've had with spammers in the past. 2. I use a random username as the address and store it in bitwarden. It isn't named after the company but I can match it there if I ever need to. Recently BW added a generator for this, but I was already doing it manually by freehanding on the keyboard. 3. Seive rules. I put newsletters in a reading list folder, receipts in a receipt folder, etc. Everything else sent to that subdomain gets sent to a purgatory folder that deletes anything older than 90 days, so I don't accumulate a bunch of garbage. If I am signing up for a newsletter that I don't care about enough to tune the rule, then I probably wasn't going to read it anyways. As a result I have not had a low value message reach a high value folder in probably 5 years. Skimming the folder I can see that Illinois politicians are still trading my address around even though I moved out of the state 4 years ago.