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Re:Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and yo... by jimktrains2 on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:16PM (#29352035)
Each family member has a subdomain all to themselves. The website before the @ allows them to know where the sender got the email address from. You can have catch-all addresses on emails, so anything without a mailbox is sent to the default mailbox that's configured.

It need not be self hosted to do this. Most email providers provide this functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and yo... by jszymborski on Friday November 26, 2021 @03:15PM (#29353662)
That's exactly right. I don't self-host the email (you can use any service that takes catch-alls like mailbox.org).

anything '@subdomain' gets forwarded to its respective family member's email.

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