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i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.
any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.
for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s moldgravy@mydomain.com.
this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.
it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.
ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!
I do the exact same thing, except instead of paying monthly for hosting, I pay $12/year for addy.io. Super reliable service and I can easily manage my email aliases with their phone app.
ooh! the cheapskate part of me likes this option!
I do this. It's excellent, no regrets. You can use sublevel domains for more organization
Etc, so it's easier to set alert and category filters. For instance I disable new mail notifications for shopping.domain addresses
If I know a email will truly be temporary, then I just one of those 10 minute email services.
gonna have to see about perhaps implementing this…
I do the same but also have a few trap addresses nobody sane should see or email to, but is easy for scrapers to grab. Easy way to train the spam filter.
Got any examples?
I've done this as well for a number of years (probably close to 5 at this point) and have only noticed one service that got hacked and my domain got leaked. No spam at all really, but I've stayed on top of unsubscribing to all marketing emails
Would you recommend this for a non technical person?
I have a similar setup, and no. Once it’s configured, it’s easy peasy, but it would probably be a difficult and confusing process for a non-technical person to get through without help. Addy.io is a great service that a non-technical user shouldn’t have any issue using
Thanks, I'll look into it.
i am gonna jump in and say that it depends on how deeply “non technical” you are. if you are already running your own website, then you could likely handle doing your email the way i do. there’s all kinds of info online, that will show you how to do it.
i did check out addy.io, and it seems simple enough to use. looking further into it, there are other services out there too, that offer a similar service, like forwardemail.net.
have a wander around the web, and see which solution feels right for you.
Well, I do consider myself better than the average user. And I've managed to setup my business domain and email. I don't have a problem with these things. My only issue would be if it needs constant troubleshooting or configuration that would require an in depth understanding of how it works.
i think you will find it relatively easy to do. best of luck!
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Genius!
Did this forever first with Google, at least them I'd know instantly who sold my info.
Now I do the same with my mailbox.com account, and delete the aliases occasionally.
Yooo this is actually genius.
I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.
Love it
Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use
I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don't generally get any spam.
Its my old gmail account.
It's the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.
It's my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it's already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam
It's my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I'm talking "NekoOniBakaChan_xx@wtf.com" levels of cringe.
Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn't ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.
My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.
Sounds good. Which provider do you use?
I don't know who OP uses, but I know that Fastmail has that feature and its pretty handy.
That was what I'm using. With Protonmail they bought SimpleLogin and it was more or less the same.
It was the coolest name from the random generator
My junk mail address is the name people hear when I say my actual name. So I guess it's the more common, phonetically similar name to mine.
If I need a burner email I can generate a temporary one on Tempmail
Other than that - my account for "less important stuff" is just one of my old ones. ;)
Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.
10 minute mail for anything I don't want to sign in to ever again.
Otherwise I have a gmail I made for the purpose, the address is some generic words and numbers that don't look like a complete spam (in case I need to send an email and hope to get a response).
My what now?
Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I've always used Don B. Sonozi - godfather@mafia.org
I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.
Buy a cheap xyz domain. Use catchall address.
I use Port87, so my junk email is just part of my real email, which is my name.
ELI5?
It uses mandatory subaddressing, so my email hperrin@port87.com, doesn’t get through. Whatever I sign up for, I add a dash to organize it. So, if I sign up for Netflix, I use hperrin-netflix@port87.com, then that goes to my Netflix folder. If they start spamming, I block that address. And for real people, I have an address that screens email, hperrin-friends@port87.com.
I see! Thanks for explaining