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Re:Firefox Relay by gostsamo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:30AM (#29252690)
This is a standard and every semi-smart spammer can strip the "\+.+" part so it works only with legit websites that you want to handle in a special way.
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Re:Firefox Relay by Semaphor on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:47AM (#29252875)
Fastmail has subdomain addressing [0] to solve that.

[email protected] is the same as [email protected]

[0]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...

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Re:Firefox Relay by gostsamo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:41AM (#29253598)
So, spammers will learn to look at the "domain.tld" at one moment if this gets popular.
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Re:Firefox Relay by quiet_cool on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:43AM (#29254550)
another options is to buy a domain with a cpanel and set up a forwarder and filter to a specific folder in your secret main email account. The extra benefit here, since you own the domain, is that you can create a send identity of your [email protected]
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