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by daem 7mo ago
My solution to spam emails is this: https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email
I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email.
While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as a challenge to get the emails to stop.
- iamacyborg 7mo agoDon’t they have a list unsubscribe header in the emails themselves? That’s effectively a requirement for senders of their size since Feb 2024.
- daem 7mo agoI see this in the headers. But there was no option in the MacOS Mail client to unsubscribe. Only the Unsubscribe link in the body of the email. Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=member.24hourfitness.com; s=twentyfourhour; t=1762443065; bh=KDZeTqKlOBd6YUTrR6K4RMz9MA2BueBl6/LnKG57yqY=; h=From:Date:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type; b=Bq6qnq65i1EN6Df9A5TpcCn3AnNzE8yjkNdDYkapehQV727Jrma15ZU4e88I8Ckdk iH5CZrtJPlNqPscm3JWbuP4IavLVKDNf3Prlm4q75tTXE0IyaTPexyOoGTu+4PoAeG wEa8WaN6zfLl5AkPO0U+zjFHicSx3ooyNomFTI2AtSVoVHVPcubtZV8wRPUy4EV9mV pRBroHp1Uj/LCFRyZRScbs5plfxEpmd3wO9vnMsXW6jqOi19kqfOkhTUKpaRVxxJA+ /cMIq+Wh4TSpt6+22gcm4hLsCVNW0mAImjTZZ/yPFwoGpLaoPOia8aYde1mlROOoZi yx81OFO+90kRQ==
- iamacyborg 7mo agoMacOS should have list unsub support from what I can see: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhld3405766/mac https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhld3405766/mac
- throw0101c 7mo agoDependent on the e-mail sender putting a header with a URL in the message: * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058
- iamacyborg 7mo agoIt’s effectively a requirement since Feb 2024 when Google and Yahoo rolled out guidelines related to it for bulk senders.
- throw0101c 7mo ago> But there was no option in the MacOS Mail client to unsubscribe. The functionality for mail clients to offer an "unsubscribe" button is dependent on there being a "List-Unsubscribe" header in the e-mail with a URL: * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058 * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2369#section-3.2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2369#section-3.2 If the sender does not put one in then that's hardly the mail client's fault.
- rationalist 7mo agoI use Fastmail which allows me to have a catch-all with my own domain name. I don't need to set anything up to give out a unique email address I make up on the spot. I highly recommend this method.
- soulofmischief 7mo agoThe flipside of this is that it's extremely easy to spam you by just iterating new email addresses.
- fer 7mo agoI do it and never had an issue. I get odd emails every now and then with an unused address, for services/people I never contacted though. But I'm talking about perhaps 2-3 per year.
- rationalist 7mo agoI think I got webmaster@ once.
- DANmode 7mo agoIt’s extremely easy to spam me on any address I give. They all end up in spam.
- DANmode 7mo agoWildcard addresses wins this round.