Reminder that apple provides burner emails that are effectively unblockable (because they use the @icloud.com domain, at least for now[1]), for $0.99/month.
$50/year and Fastmail will let you alias anything@yourdomain.com to your inbox. I use a different email for every company or website I interact with, so I know who spams me.
CharlesW•34m ago
Apple (like any email provider that conforms to RFC 2822) supports plus addresses as well.
joshbetz•31m ago
Bad actors can just strip the plus part of the address
KMnO4•30m ago
Any illegitimate email collection service already knows to strip out email subaddresses.
If you’re trying to avoid email spam, there’s not much difference in giving someone myname+foo@gmail.com versus just myname@gmail.com.
teddyh•29m ago
Are you implying that plus addresses are part of RFC 2822? Because they aren’t. AFAIK, no RFC documents specify the plus address convention. The RFCs merely specify that, in an email address, whatever is to the left of the @ sign is to be interpreted by the receiving system, and nobody else should make any assumptions about any of it, and certainly never alter it. And also that the + character is one of the many permitted characters to the left of the @ sign in an email address.
The plus address convention is just that, a convention, widely implemented by many email programs and servers, but not required by any standard, nor universally implemented.
john_strinlai•15m ago
its talked about in a proposed standard, at least.
I love this feature from Fastmail but I have used a few websites (smaller of course) that will not accept anything outside of the big few email domains.
T0Bi•23m ago
My domain at Hetzner including mail costs less than 20€/year and all emails to <whatever>@mydomain.com which are not part of predefined mailboxes land in my catchall@mydomain.com mailbox.
Normal_gaussian•1m ago
Do you have sending from the incoming address setup? If so, using what?
hoppyhoppy2•17m ago
Fastmail costs $60/year now, at least for new signups
MarioMan•17m ago
Cloudflare offers this for free as well.
rz2k•16m ago
I’ve surprisingly found that I have started to have to use mydomain.com with Fastmail. Sometimes banks used for a business account, or accounts at b2b companies don’t treat fastmail.com as a large email provider, and otherwise try to associate me with other fastmail customers as though we are colleagues at Fastmail.
Normal_gaussian•1m ago
This is genuinely hilarious. Are you able to elaborate? Which banks? Which B2B? There is probably a shared product stack here that is making some hilariously poor decisions.
GuinansEyebrows•36m ago
His own petard?!
observationist•20m ago
He was petarded quite hoistily.
thenewnewguy•23m ago
The article author attemps to make a distintion between "burners" and "aliases" but I don't believe one exists for this usecase. Let's say for the sake of argument that you think blocking burner emails provides meaningful protection (I don't, but services using such a list obviously do). From your perspective, an "alias" is the same as a "burner". Both can be easily generated in bulk by a human or bots, cannot be resolved to an identity, and cannot be compared to determine if two emails are the same person.
gruez•45m ago
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935
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CharlesW•34m ago
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KMnO4•30m ago
If you’re trying to avoid email spam, there’s not much difference in giving someone myname+foo@gmail.com versus just myname@gmail.com.
teddyh•29m ago
The plus address convention is just that, a convention, widely implemented by many email programs and servers, but not required by any standard, nor universally implemented.
john_strinlai•15m ago
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5233/
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