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catchall FTW I follow the following pattern with websites: If the website is important (ex. government), I use <sitename><4_numbers>@<private_domain>. My filt
by Aldo_MX 13y ago
catchall FTW
I follow the following pattern with websites:
If the website is important (ex. government), I use <sitename><4_numbers>@<private_domain>. My filtering rules are extremely strict, and every mail that doesn't come from the expected website gets automatically flagged as spam and deleted. If their DB leaks, I just change the 4 numbers.
If I know the website and it's not an startup, I use <sitename>@<public_domain>, ex. facebook@example.com. My filtering rules only flag the messages as "maybe spam" when the sender is not in my contacts. If their DB leaks, I change the filter from "maybe spam" to "spam".
If it's a website I don't know, or a startup, I use <full_domain>@<publc_domain>, ex. mystartup.io@example.com. I don't filter them, but if I start getting spam, I just simply set the email as an alias to my wormhole (an account I never check that flags anything it receives as spam).
If it's a spam blog, or a website that forces me to create an account by no apparent reason, I just use the wormhole address.
- jeremyjh 13y agoThis is brilliant, thanks for sharing.
- eli 13y agoThat seems like a lot of overhead to manage. Also, you're going to have a bad day if a spam bot decides to spam thousands of <common_user_name>@yourdomain.com. Maybe that's fallen out of practice, but I've seen it happen before.
- spindritf 13y agoIt's a tried and true spamming tradition and it's going strong. I see plenty of entries like Envelope-to: <eba615c3c@my.domain> in my reject log. Addresses that were never used anywhere. Some things just refuse to die.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoNot really, in this year I had changed only 1 filter, the initial setup may be cumbersome, but the end result is worth the effort. And about the spam to random addresses, in 8 years the most extreme problem I had faced is spam to censored addresses like git...@domain.com (thanks google code).
- baby 13y agoThis seems way too difficult to manage. I wish there was a Gmail like application that anyone could set up easily on its server and that would allow for : quick email generation. You need to sign up to something ? Generate a quick mail that redirects automatically to your main inbox and that you can give away when signing up. If you see that spam is arriving on this email, remove it.