#2 it helps to know if a website you sign up for sells your information, so if you get penis enhancing product ads sent to me+FreeOnlineGamez@starfleet.org then you know where it came from
Having your own domain name is great here! Plus a catch all address
Q@starfleet.ufp
But maybe you get spam at starfleet.ufp, so subdomains to the rescue, they NEVER get random spam, so you can have
b.sisko@ds9.station.starfleet.ufp
or any other address you want at @ds9.station.starfleet.ufp and have it go to your catchall address.
Some email services, like fastmail, will let you automatically respond to emails to your catchall from the address they sent mail to. So you will always respond as b.sisko@ds9.station.starfleet.ufp if someone mails you at that address. its nifty. Good enough for the great link
Yes, and it’s a problem because they allow different people to register accounts with dots in them, but all of these emails go to the original person.
For about a year, my wife was getting Uber receipts and email from relatives to some woman who’d registered the same name, but with the difference of a dot.
Did you know there’s no way to contact someone when the emails you send to them are delivered to you? And that Google ignores messages you send them, even when one of their services is posing a potential fraud and security risk?
After a while, we started responding to her relatives with a form email explaining, and suggesting they call the woman and let her know what was going on. Eventually, it stopped.
Did not know that, that’s so dumb. I wonder if that’s why I get random emails sometimes from someone who thinks I’m a hairdresser. I had assumed it just that someone had a similar email address in spelling or something.
Might have to sign the most likely . position in my email address up to so much spam that they close their account.
Fun fact: many (most?) email providers allow you to append “+word” to your email address and it’ll still deliver.
For example, if your email is: kirk@starfleet.org
You can use:
kirk+spock@starfleet.org
kirk+bones@starfleet.org
kirk+scotty@starfleet.org
Those will all route mail to your main mailbox (kirk@starfleet.org), but look different to websites.
I’ve been using this for years.
#1 it adds a new layer of security if there is a breach and you use a different, but not obvious, tag for websites like me+amazon@starfleet.org, me+netflix@starfleet.org.
#2 it helps to know if a website you sign up for sells your information, so if you get penis enhancing product ads sent to me+FreeOnlineGamez@starfleet.org then you know where it came from
#3 some sites don’t allow the + so you’re screwed
Having your own domain name is great here! Plus a catch all address
Q@starfleet.ufp
But maybe you get spam at starfleet.ufp, so subdomains to the rescue, they NEVER get random spam, so you can have
b.sisko@ds9.station.starfleet.ufp or any other address you want at @ds9.station.starfleet.ufp and have it go to your catchall address.
Some email services, like fastmail, will let you automatically respond to emails to your catchall from the address they sent mail to. So you will always respond as b.sisko@ds9.station.starfleet.ufp if someone mails you at that address. its nifty. Good enough for the great link
Gmail lets you put a . anywhere in your address
Yes, and it’s a problem because they allow different people to register accounts with dots in them, but all of these emails go to the original person.
For about a year, my wife was getting Uber receipts and email from relatives to some woman who’d registered the same name, but with the difference of a dot.
Did you know there’s no way to contact someone when the emails you send to them are delivered to you? And that Google ignores messages you send them, even when one of their services is posing a potential fraud and security risk?
After a while, we started responding to her relatives with a form email explaining, and suggesting they call the woman and let her know what was going on. Eventually, it stopped.
Did not know that, that’s so dumb. I wonder if that’s why I get random emails sometimes from someone who thinks I’m a hairdresser. I had assumed it just that someone had a similar email address in spelling or something.
Might have to sign the most likely . position in my email address up to so much spam that they close their account.
That’s one way to do it.