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Comment by mmcclure

This is a really cool project, so I don't mean to be overly negative, but personally this workflow feels quite a bit more laborious than just having a catch-all email address. Before signing up for a service, I need to email myself to get an address to use for the service?

I have all emails for my domain route to me, so when I use a service I just do [service-name]@my-domain.com. If a bad actor gets a hold of it I set up an inbox filter or black hole the email address at the service level. The big advantage of this project seems to be that you can reply, but I've found that a huge proportion of these email aliases are inbound only for me.

I'm using GSuite for my personal email but I've been considering Fastmail. Just checked and it looks like they also support sending from those catchall aliases: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html

parent mmcclure 6 years ago

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