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I’m not sure that idea was thought through. An infinite number of addresses that all point to the same inbox is effectively the same as having one address

• mariusor 2y ago
  The point of having multiple addresses delivering to the same mailbox is to be able to use per service custom emails. The grand-grand parent wanted a ticketmaster specific email, so if they sell their data, or it gets leaked, they know from the email address it was from ticketmaster, or another service. Another commenter in the thread presented how their company "normalizes" gmail addresses by removing "." character and "+..." suffixes, so users don't abuse their system by creating multiple accounts with what is basically the same email. Having a catch-all mailbox allows people to circumvent this "security" measure. I'm imagining that you actually want to have separate emails pointing to separate mailboxes, and for that case indeed, your solution is better, but for the life of me I can't imagine why anyone would prefer having to check multiple emails, instead of a single one. :D
  • cush 2y ago
    Yeah I get it, just disagree that it circumvents anything. If emails actually worked this way then leaking the domain would be effectively the same as leaking an email is today. The + scheme doesn’t work because of the aforementioned normalization, and this domain thing wouldn’t work for the exact same reason - whoever had the leaked email could just send an email to <anything-they-want>@<yourdomain> and it’s all the same