01-10-2020, 11:51 AM
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Re: Anyone using an Email Alias to avoid spam, etc?
Originally Posted by Havenview
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A couple of tipsIf you have a Gmail account then the Google mail server ignores all the dots in the name so if you have a Gmail of my.name then m.yname and mynam.e etc etc will arrive at your inbox - you can use this as a basic tag to your emails by moving the dot for specific categories
If you get yourself a domain name and email setup from an external provider then you can set up accounts for each provider eg tesco @ mydomain.com - this allows you to filter on incomming addresses and you also know who has "sold on" your email addresses
Paragraph 2, I'm with ionos.
01-10-2020, 03:42 PM
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Re: Anyone using an Email Alias to avoid spam, etc?
Originally Posted by Tedc
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Paragraph 2, I'm with ionos.
looking at Ionos sales website, you are allowed other addresses like <your_partners_name> @ <your_ionos_domain> or <my_tesco> @ <your_ionos_domain> - this is a typical feature because the mailbox is normally linked to the domain name
You should be able to pick up both sets of emails with one email client and see which ones are to each incomming address
Issue a different local address (the bit before the @) to each online retailer and just give out your personal email to trusted people like friends and family
If you leave an online retailer then just delete the email address (normally this causes any incomming emails to drop off or be kicked out as spam)
01-10-2020, 05:17 PM
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Re: Anyone using an Email Alias to avoid spam, etc?
Originally Posted by Havenview
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so with your Ionos account you may have set up an email like <your_name> @ <your_ionos_domain>looking at Ionos sales website, you are allowed other addresses like <your_partners_name> @ <your_ionos_domain> or <my_tesco> @ <your_ionos_domain> - this is a typical feature because the mailbox is normally linked to the domain name
You should be able to pick up both sets of emails with one email client and see which ones are to each incomming address
Issue a different local address (the bit before the @) to each online retailer and just give out your personal email to trusted people like friends and family
If you leave an online retailer then just delete the email address (normally this causes any incomming emails to drop off or be kicked out as spam)
Yes, that's how mine works.
02-10-2020, 12:14 AM
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Re: Anyone using an Email Alias to avoid spam, etc?
Originally Posted by Tedc
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Paragraph 1 is of interest, must check that out.Paragraph 2, I'm with ionos.
billsmith+blog@gmail.com
billsmith+tesco@gmail.com
billsmith+web@gmail.com
will all arrive at the billsmith@gmail.com address.
It can be handy determining the source of an email, for example I have several websites with clickable email addresses and use this to determine which email came from which site or it can be used to filter out spam.
02-10-2020, 10:04 AM
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Re: Anyone using an Email Alias to avoid spam, etc?
Originally Posted by Bruce
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Another thing that might be relevant or useful with Gmail is that you can add information in the address. For examplebillsmith+blog@gmail.com
billsmith+tesco@gmail.com
billsmith+web@gmail.com
will all arrive at the billsmith@gmail.com address.
It can be handy determining the source of an email, for example I have several websites with clickable email addresses and use this to determine which email came from which site or it can be used to filter out spam.
The main cause of my interest, in anonaddy, is that nobody else ever gets to see any part of my email addresses.
Thus, there is nothing to sell on, nothing to pass up the scam chain, nothing to hack. The only thing left to worry about would be the anonaddy site, itself, which must be where the recoding of the email addresses must take place
Hence my enquiry & looking for users (of anonaddy) for comments.
I'll be diving in during the next few days.
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