Re:Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard...
by atoav on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:30PM
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I want to elaborate a little further because I thought this might be unclear if you don't really know what a catch-all adress is:
A catch-all adress is an adress where all emails of your domain that you didn't explicictly make a email adress for will land.
So if you own foobar.eu and you made [email protected] your catch-all adress, you could just make up arbitray email adresses on the spot (e.g. [email protected]) and all mails that are sent to that adress will land in your catch-all adress.
There are multiple cool things about this:
- you can just block that adress if it annoys you
- if you ever get spam and it is adressed to [email protected] you know exactly who fucked with your data
- you don't have to disclose your primary email adress to stranges, you can just make something up.
A catch-all adress is an adress where all emails of your domain that you didn't explicictly make a email adress for will land.
So if you own foobar.eu and you made [email protected] your catch-all adress, you could just make up arbitray email adresses on the spot (e.g. [email protected]) and all mails that are sent to that adress will land in your catch-all adress.
There are multiple cool things about this: - you can just block that adress if it annoys you - if you ever get spam and it is adressed to [email protected] you know exactly who fucked with your data - you don't have to disclose your primary email adress to stranges, you can just make something up.