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Domain names for catch all email aliases (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/privacy@programming.dev

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OQB: @spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca

I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.

What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?

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[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

There have been a few places that catch it and "error" the email if I try to use the services name in the email

The only service I've had a problem with like this was Netflix. They let me sign up with netflix@domain in 2015, but some time in 2018, they stopped sending me emails. When I wanted to export my data and cancel my account, I changed it to netflicks@domain and that seemed to work.