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Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by danieldk on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:12AM (#18057345)
Fastmail has an even nicer feature: subdomain addressing. If you are [email protected], you can set up Fastmail to accept subdomains

[email protected]

[email protected]

Avoids catchalls ;).

Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by billysielu on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:27AM (#18057451)
Tyvm! That looks epic. Link: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html Might be tricky if the time came to migrate away from FastMail though.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by rb666 on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:20AM (#18057863)
Indeed! This is why I stopped using it. I love Fastmail, but who knows if I feel that way in 5 years. The entire point of Fastmail + own domain is never being locked in again. Using subdomain addressing locks you in once again.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by ekovarski on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:50PM (#18077828)
I'm with @rb666; Don't rely on it as most will support plus+ addressing but not the the fast mail subdomain addressing as I am now in the process of migrating to Migadu.com and I need to go and unsubscribe and resub using the plus+tag. It's a PITA... lesson learned, stick with best industry practices even if there is an easier method because you'll thank yourself later.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by stinos on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:31AM (#18057983)
Is also nicer than plus-notation like [email protected], which from time to time gets rejected by some overly zealous (but wrong) adress checking tool.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by superkuh on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:26AM (#18057927)
catchalls are great. In addition to allowing the use of arbitrary custom addresses on a whim they make it really easy to identify spam and train spam filters. Anything that arrives on multiple random/unused addresses at your domain is spam.