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Re:Fastmail was down by the_pwner224 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:30PM (#25864548)
You can set up a wildcard/catchall alias instead of having to manually create an actual alias for each service. Someone can send email to [email protected] and it will go to your inbox.

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

Re:Fastmail was down by alessioalex on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:55PM (#25864939)
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 (#25865333)
> 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?

Re:Fastmail was down by aheckler on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:45PM (#25866804)
I imagine it's for easier management of rules used to file email from certain accounts into folders.
Re:Fastmail was down by csomar on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:53PM (#25864902)
Even better if you use their Web interface, you'll reply with the same email alias that received the email.
Re:Fastmail was down by foofoo4u on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:30PM (#25865393)
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 (#25865662)
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.
Re:Fastmail was down by foofoo4u on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:07PM (#25867364)
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.