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Does it have any significance?

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[-] bdot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 week ago

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.

Yooo this is actually genius.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

Its my old gmail account.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don't generally get any spam.

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.

[-] themadcodger@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds good. Which provider do you use?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I use Port87, so my junk email is just part of my real email, which is my name.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Buy a cheap xyz domain. Use catchall address.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

A couple words from a dream I'd had that burrowed deep into my brain for a short time. I figured it was unique enough, I could get the original and not have to add number at the end.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Cook idea! Weird how some dreams stick with you for years.. or even a lifetime.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I remember a couple of first dreams from before I was a toddler. (I have memories from a loooong time ago, actually.) My dreams at the time kinda blended with reality and I couldn't tell the difference.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's one word off from an Alice in Wonderland quote

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Just made up a fake name

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I often use proton for junk mails as it does not require phone or something and a lot of services accept it compared to the normal trash mail services.

Another thing i do is searching for the sender of annoying mails, mark like 10 of them and mark them as spam, then the next ones get dumped too

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It’s my Hotmail account

[-] alehel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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