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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

2021: Techbro cold emails me about his startup using a unique email address generated on my website.
2024: Getting spammed at that specific address.

I report it. Email provider abuse dept says they're investigating, as they require opt in.

I sent them the 2021 email and web logs from bro's visit.

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dilbert 1
@deutrino @ryanc this happened to me from some shitbag whose tool I signed up for from hacker news. I use a unique email for every signup
deutrino

@sun do you use plus-addressing for uniqueness or do you have a better solution? @ryanc

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dilbert 1
@deutrino @ryanc I run my own domain and it's a catchall so anything to my domain goes to the same box. so I do like:

google.com@mydomain.tld

and I give it to google

then if they abuse it I See it
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deutrino

@sun @ryanc kinda thinking I should get a domain solely for email and do exactly this, I don't have a catch-all currently so I use plus addressing which is not great

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dilbert 1
@deutrino @ryanc i pay for fastmail behind it bc running your own mail is like owning a pit bull, you tell everybody how its not bad at all and then one day it rips the face off your baby
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deutrino

@sun @ryanc Fastmail is good, I do the same with a provider with no servers in Five Eyes countries, but I was with Fastmail before that. I just never had figured out / changed my custom to do what you describe. I don't have catchall turned on for any domains, but my provider can do it. and yeah... zero desire to run my own email infra

edit: I usually do a unique plus address but tons of sites break on inclusion of a + in an email address

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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@deutrino @sun@shitposter.world running an actual catch-all will trigger anti-fraud systems sometimes, and yes they can and will check.

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@sun @ryanc @deutrino I have a setup just like this with Migadu, it's fantastic and 100% the best way to do email
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Eliot Lash

@deutrino @sun @ryanc There is a free service for making burner self-destructing forwarding emails at spamgourmet.com that's been around for a long time. I use it sometimes but honestly Gmail spam filtering is so good nowadays I haven't bothered much unless it's something sketchy.

www.spamgourmet.comspamgourmetspamgourmet provides email addresses that get created automatically the first time they are used, forward messages, and then automatically expire.
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dilbert 1
@Eliot_L @deutrino @ryanc I want to know who signed me up for the spam so someone can mail a pipe bomb to their headquarters. I don't condone violence but I still need to know.
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Eliot Lash

@deutrino @sun @ryanc Also I should mention this works like a + alias, you don't need to log in to their site more than once ever to use it. If I were to write an email address like myalias.1.myusername@spamgourmet.com it will forward one email to me and then shut down. You can allow up to 20 emails this way, or log into their dashboard to add a sender to an allow-list so their emails won't increment the counter.

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deutrino

@Eliot_L that's a pretty cool service, do they have a bunch of domains or just the one? @sun @ryanc

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Eliot Lash

@deutrino @sun @ryanc I'm only aware of the one domain. It's an old service that's been operating continuously since the year 2000, I don't know if multiple domains were really trendy back then.

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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Eliot_L @deutrino @sun@shitposter.world I have a similar feature set to what spamgormet offers configured on my own mail server.

I also have support for + addressing in some cases, but I can implement whatever I want.

I do not in most cases use + addressing because the extension can be stripped/altered.

For most things, I use aliases that include a random value to prevent my email addresses from being guessed.

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chbug

@deutrino addy.io is a very nice service for that.

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