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[email protected] : How can I make email sub-addresses with only letters or numbers and no special characters like plus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want a bulletproof way to give email sub-addresses, since some websites strip out special characters like + and .. I have an idea for how it could work, let's say my email is [email protected] and I have the following:

All emails sent to TheTwelveYearOld@ get blocked
I specify a suffix that would be used instead of +, perhaps "From"
I whitelist phrases that go after "From": TheTwelveYearOldFromDoorDash, TheTwelveYearOldFromGoogle, TheTwelveYearOldFromReddit

Are there any services that can do this? I'm thinking I should make my own domain for emails that way my email addresses aren't tied to any companies and I can easily switch.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My solution to this has been a catchall on my domain.

[email protected], [email protected], etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why use a catch all when you can configure postfix to use _ as a separator instead of +. and then you can configure dovecot to automatically classify the selector into directories!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

how do u set these up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First purchase a domain. Cloudflare is definitely the cheapest but there are other options out there if you don't want to use Cloudflare.

Use an alias service like SimpleLogin or addy.io. addy.io has a cheaper 'lite' (limited) plan, SL has a cheaper 'premium' (unlimited) plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alias is not catchall

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They both will automatically create an address on-the-fly. Give a service [email protected] and it will automatically be generated and sent to your mailbox of choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I’ve been using proton on my custom domains so far, who seem to support catch all email addresses*, although I’d love also to have a feature where I could cut off an email if it gets too spammy, I think I’ve seen that on some other alias services. Do you know if that’s something simple login can do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, both SL and addy.io have the feature to enable/disable individual addresses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nice thank u for the infos ❤️