You might not need to store plaintext email addresses

Re:You might not need to store plaintext email addresses by trengorilla on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:52AM (#24967068)

How many e-mails could you possibly have that makes trial and error not a good solution in this scenario?

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Re:You might not need to store plaintext email addresses by danaris on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#24970738)

Well, first of all, I have 5 email accounts that I regularly use.

One of those uses multiple domains (it's an iCloud account that I registered way back in the iTools days, so it supports @mac.com, @me.com, and @icloud.com....possibly even @itools.com, not sure about that one).

I regularly use a + extension to the addresses that support it when I'm signing up somewhere that I don't 100% trust, and that allows arbitrary additions to the address. And I don't always remember what version of a site's name I will have used (eg, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc).

I recognize that I'm an outlier, but trial and error is completely infeasible in this scenario.

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Re:You might not need to store plaintext email addresses by kd913 on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:52AM (#24968104)

I tend to use aliases so I can filter/discover which exact service is perhaps selling my email.

ie <email prefix>+<tag>@gmail.com

That tag could be anything or everything.

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