Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai...
by e12e on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:36PM
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It's more Sendmail and Exim and others did it, and Gmail does it too - not the other way around;)
With qmail the "standard"[1] was [email protected], rather than [email protected]. I rather prefer that - but then my (user)name(s) don't contain any hyphens.
Either way I think it looks better with system usernames - [email protected] was/is usually handled as a separate form of alias look-up anyway.
[ed: and I recall using tmda as an anti-spam system - it inserts an encrypted tag in the alias portion, that can be stamped with an expiry date, and tied to a sender address (eg hmac(userkey, [email protected]+01012018) => xyxyzzzzz - give [email protected] the address [email protected] - and mail to that address will be accepted from only [email protected] until 1/1/2018.
With qmail the "standard"[1] was [email protected], rather than [email protected]. I rather prefer that - but then my (user)name(s) don't contain any hyphens.
Either way I think it looks better with system usernames - [email protected] was/is usually handled as a separate form of alias look-up anyway.
[1] http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#dot-qmail-files See section "4.1.5. extension addresses"
[ed: and I recall using tmda as an anti-spam system - it inserts an encrypted tag in the alias portion, that can be stamped with an expiry date, and tied to a sender address (eg hmac(userkey, [email protected]+01012018) => xyxyzzzzz - give [email protected] the address [email protected] - and mail to that address will be accepted from only [email protected] until 1/1/2018.
http://tmda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/AboutTmda ]