Re:Fastmail was down
by alessioalex on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:55PM
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You can even do more than that.
I have different categories per services: paid services go to @paid.mydomain.tld, social logins go to @social.mydomain.tld etc. So that means something like [email protected] or [email protected].
Edit: using Route53 for DNS subdomain wildcard.
Re:Fastmail was down
by kevinkeller on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:26PM
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> paid services go to @paid.mydomain.tld, social logins go to @social.mydomain.tld etc
Any specific reason to do this over the usual way ([email protected], [email protected])? How are you benefitting from the extra hierarchy?
I imagine it's for easier management of rules used to file email from certain accounts into folders.
Even better if you use their Web interface, you'll reply with the same email alias that received the email.
On top of this, I purchased a `.email` domain. Something about `[email protected]` feels clean.
Re:Fastmail was down
by the_pwner224 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:50PM
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That does seem clean, but I would worry about normal people being confused by it. Having (business's name)@myname.com already gets a lot of questions / confirmations / confused responses.
Yes, doing that certainly does raise a lot of questions from people. They often pause and ask for clarification. Also, I've come to learn that some company's email validators do not accept `.email`. Thankfully this is a rare occurrence. And when it does happen, I've always been successful in bypassing it. I'm too attracted to the appeal of `.email`, so I happily put up with it.
You can also send with a wildcard - the big desktop email clients, as well as the FastMail web interface, as well as FairEmail on Android all let you type something for the part before the @, so you can send from [email protected].
https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html