Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by JimDabell on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:38PM
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Some mail providers support receiving mail on arbitrary hostnames, so you can set up a wildcard MX record and then use [email protected] instead. This avoids email validation issues with plus addresses, spammers don’t try removing any parts of the hostname, and I think in the many years I have been using it I’ve only run into a problem with including the service name once or possibly twice.
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Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by drexlspivey on Monday April 11, 2022 @08:24AM
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AFAIK the only provider that supports that is Fastmail and it kinda defeats the purpose of using your own domain because if you are forced to migrate you are toast.
Which mail providers support this? I'd like to set up something like this. Thanks!
StartMail supports a form of this called as "aliases" with the StartMail domain.
(Disclosure: I work at StartMail.)
I do this with ProtonMail. I have it set on a subdomain, though: my regular email is [email protected], while my account email is [email protected]. This avoids the spam sent to asdf@everydomain.
Fastmail, can't recall if assuming you want to achieve something like name+tag@domain it would be [email protected] or [email protected] (IIRC the latter)
You can do this with Fastmail by going to Settings => Domains => Edit => Routing.