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You just gave me a good idea. I have my own domain and my main email address is mail@mydomain.com . Whenever I register to any websites now I'll start using reg
by phowat 11y ago
You just gave me a good idea. I have my own domain and my main email address is mail@mydomain.com . Whenever I register to any websites now I'll start using registration+websitename@mydomain.com and I'll configure my mail server to forward me anything that arrives to registration+anystring@mydomain.com and drop all mail to registration@mydomain.com .
- dannyperson 11y agoMany sign up forms disallow the use of '+' in email addresses, either to prevent this, or more likely because the programmer wasn't aware it was a valid character for an email address in the first place.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoIf you're not going to verify that the email address they're giving you is real, why restrict them to your idea of what goes in an address? I often fill in my email address as fake@fake.fake . It's pretty easy to see that that's invalid -- to the best of my knowledge, there is no .fake TLD, and there certainly wasn't when I started doing it. But, I've never seen a form reject it. You validate email addresses by sending confirmation emails. What's the thinking behind pretending you're doing it in the form?
- iak8god 11y agoDon't run my own domain, but I'm thinking of creating a second gmail address for this: * myrealaddressregistration@gmail.com * use myrealaddressregistration+websitename@gmail.com per site * use a filter to forward to myrealaddress@gmail.com everything BUT messages to: myrealaddressregistration@gmail.com