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emnsk
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It creates an alias that forwards email to your account for services that may be spammy that you don't want to give your email out to.

I had created multiple emails originally for this purpose, but it's getting a bit out of control, and this seems pretty awesome. The service seems to keep on getting better and better

9/5/2024 6:31:15 AM

qntmfred
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I use google workspace for my personal domain which allows you to create 30 aliases per user. I use them sometimes, but you have to set the alias up in advance which can be a bit of friction i'd like to avoid if I'm about to sign up for a service and want to use a new alias if I don't fully trust them not to give away my email address (politics is notorious for this but I like to keep an eye on what various people/groups are sending out and https://politicalemails.org/ doesn't always cut it). For a long time I usually just used the + alias approach but sometimes you try to sign up for a service with an email and it rejects it because of the +. For a minute I had set up an smtp relay in AWS and that gave me unlimited on the fly aliases that would wildcard forward everything to my workspace account, but it was $50/month and wasn't really worth it. might use something like https://forwardmx.net/ instead but if I get around to it I'd prefer to self-host a service like that instead of paying monthly

9/5/2024 10:32:25 AM

emnsk
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The proton ones have +Aliases but also have "Hide-my-email aliases" that are made specifically as "new emails" that forward to you

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"For a minute I had set up an smtp relay in AWS and that gave me unlimited on the fly aliases that would wildcard forward everything to my workspace account, but it was $50/month and wasn't really worth it. might use something like https://forwardmx.net/ instead but if I get around to it I'd prefer to self-host a service like that instead of paying monthly"


can you explain this further, I'm not familiar

9/5/2024 2:03:06 PM

qntmfred
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oops apparently you can in fact set up a catch-all email address with google workspace too.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2685650?hl=en

9/10/2024 2:11:57 PM

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