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Yes! I solved this years ago by using forwardemail.net. What I do is, any time I give ANYONE an email (and you have to hold to this very strongly) I give them

Yes! I solved this years ago by using forwardemail.net. What I do is, any time I give ANYONE an email (and you have to hold to this very strongly) I give them a custom email. So let's say I own dimitropoulos.com (I don't, but just for example). If I need to give an email to Joe the Mechanic, I give him joethemechanic@dimitropoulos.com. So, if I need to give an email address to the any person or retailer I give them <retailerswebsite>@<mydomain>.com. I don't need to do anything to configure this in advance, I can just make them whenever I want. The problem is, everyone knows about the myrealemail+someentropything@gmail.com trick now, and many spammers will just chop off anything after the `+`. This way, they literally can ONLY use the email you give them and they never have knowledge of your real email. You can even set it up so you can respond with that custom email. Best of all, it's free. I've used it for years and I've caught a good few companies that have sold my email address without my consent, and this is the way they get caught because I can know for sure they sold it because I gave them a custom email that's only ever been given to them and yet I get a campaign email addressed to that email through my normal gmail.

mPReDiToR 4y ago
I've recently started doing this as part of my "GOOG lockout" plan. There are enough stories on here of people waking up to find they've lost access to Gmail or other services that I see this as a credible scenario. My vanity domain for mail and Oracle CI NextCloud allow me to use their services without fear. I've recently set up Amazon SES so I can send emails from <companyname>@vanity.domain instead of replies coming from Gmail. At the first sign of being locked out I can switch my forwarding to another provider and carry on as usual. Self hosting isn't even out of the question if it comes to it.
- dimitropoulos 4y ago
  that's a fantastic idea. I've never thought of that! it's funny, because within 10 minutes of me writing the above I got an email from a recruiter that was addressed to netflix@<mydomain>.com. This is absolute proof that netflix sold my email to a recruiting agency (I had applied to them a while back, but they didn't have an opening on the team I was interested in). Shameful stuff..

mPReDiToR 4y ago

I've recently started doing this as part of my "GOOG lockout" plan. There are enough stories on here of people waking up to find they've lost access to Gmail or other services that I see this as a credible scenario. My vanity domain for mail and Oracle CI NextCloud allow me to use their services without fear. I've recently set up Amazon SES so I can send emails from <companyname>@vanity.domain instead of replies coming from Gmail. At the first sign of being locked out I can switch my forwarding to another provider and carry on as usual. Self hosting isn't even out of the question if it comes to it.

dimitropoulos 4y ago
that's a fantastic idea. I've never thought of that! it's funny, because within 10 minutes of me writing the above I got an email from a recruiter that was addressed to netflix@<mydomain>.com. This is absolute proof that netflix sold my email to a recruiting agency (I had applied to them a while back, but they didn't have an opening on the team I was interested in). Shameful stuff..