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anti-spam is only an issue if people dump their email anywhere. I usually register my mail on webpages as first.last+webpage@mail.com and once they would spam t
by roflmaostc 2y ago
anti-spam is only an issue if people dump their email anywhere.
I usually register my mail on webpages as first.last+webpage@mail.com and once they would spam this mail, it gets blacklisted.
I literally get only 1-3 real spam mails per month without any filter.
- dripton 2y agoWords great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.
- 6510 2y agodots are ignored, can filter by john.doe@gmail.com not sure about capital letters
- hks0 2y agoNot everyone's cup of tea, but quite nice if one can afford it: I have my personal domain and a catch-all inbox. So if I want to register at acme-co.xyz I will just use acmecoxyz@my-domain.tld Maybe I should start using random words though? Wonder if someone will go bananas seeing their brand's name on my domain.
- kroltan 2y agoYeah, I've had to explain that a couple times already, usually when dealing with customer support or in-person registrations. And a "malicious" actor can get away with pretending to be another company by spoofing the username if they know your domain works like that. I don't think this has reached spammers' repertoire yet, but I wouldn't be surprised. Eventually I'd like to have a way of generating random email addresses that accept mail on demand, and put everything else in quaraintine automatically.
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoOr just knows about this Gmail trick (it's been 20 years already) and sends spam to your real mailbox. Actually, I am surprised _any_ spammy website these days would even honor the part after the +, and not just directly send to the real mailbox name.
- thechao 2y agoI used to require a "+..." on all emails. Any email that didn't have the "+..." was sent to Spam automagically. My family were whitelisted. I gave up, because too many websites (early on) refused to take the "+..." marker, so I ended up losing too much to Spam. It's easier to just let Google sort it out.
- gnopgnip 2y agoIt's part of RFC 5233 Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension
- aorth 2y agoGood resource on this trick from 2010. It's not Gmail specific. https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-a...
- janalsncm 2y agoI see this recommendation everywhere and I am genuinely surprised that it works. Any spammer can find out your real address since there is an obvious mapping from + addresses to your real address. An actual solution would hide this mapping.
- bachmeier 2y agoYeah. Fastmail masked addresses are random. The best you can do is guess that an address might be masked, due to it not being johnsmith@fastmail.com, but it provides no information about your real email address.
- JW_00000 2y agoToo late for most people.