You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address [email protected]. Then, if spammers send to that address, you can quickly see where they got the e-mail address from!

I’ve tested it with Proton Mail, and it works in exactly the same way.

See https://lifehacker.com/your-gmail-account-has-unlimited-addresses-1849809691

#technology #email #antispam #privacy

  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately, many companies incorrectly validate e-mail addresses. Sometimes you aren’t allowed to register and sometimes you are able to register but then some things don’t work.

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      1 year ago

      Yes I must say I’ve only had about two that would not register a plus address. Most others are just sending and then accepting a OTP response. Plus addresses are also working with my own domain e-mail.

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        1 year ago

        I use aliases on my own domain. For example, for lemmy I might use [email protected] or for my bank i use [email protected]. Everything goes to the same inbox. There have been a couple times with job applications where I’ve had to reply and then they find out I’m not really [email protected] but I guess I could set that account up if I feel the need.

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          1 year ago

          If you register your domain with njalla (which are also amazing for privacy and generally have great no bullshit dns management) you get a domain-wide mail forward with that, it’s a simple setting you can just toggle. Included in the 15/year (depending on your TLD) domain registration