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This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it ev
by nicholashead 9y ago
This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it even easier.
- morninj 9y agoSame here. Sometimes I'll also add the date when I entered the address in a form. For instance, the last time I registered to vote, I used YYYYMMDD-ca-voter-registration@mydomain.org. During the last election cycle, I caught a few California politicians harvesting my address and adding it to their email lists.
- alien_robot 9y agoIronically the CAN-SPAM Act only prevents commercial entities from doing this, however shady the practice may be. Political emails are protected free speech and AFAIK the means by which addresses are obtained is irrelevant.
- dfinninger 9y agoTangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?
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- prawn 9y agoG-Suite in my case. I use service-specific emails and then remember them via autocomplete or a password manager.
- imron 9y agoNot the poster you replied to, but I use Fastmail. If your Fastmail address is dfinniger@fastmail.com then you can randomly create emails like: some-domain@dfinniger.fastmail.com and it will automatically send them to your main email. It's very convenient, and the cost per year is likely to be less than your hourly rate multiplied by the number of hours it'd take to set up self-hosting.
- morninj 9y agoI use G Suite for one domain (because I was grandfathered into a free plan) and Zoho for others. IMAP is a little faster in Zoho, and I haven't seen a difference in reliability. The Google web interface is much better, though.