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Advice for Helping Older Person with Spam (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I'm helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she's getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn't continue to be spread.

Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?

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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I don’t know if it would be right for her, since it’s not like other email services, but I run an email service at https://port87.com that is very difficult to spam.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    What is the difference between this and name+label@email.com?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago
    1. It automatically creates a label for you, and email sent to that address goes to that label.
    2. The label can have screening. (New senders need to verify they’re a human.)
    3. You can use a dash, since not all places accept a plus (I’m looking at you, Microsoft).

    What you’re talking about is tagged addresses, which a lot of providers support, but Port87 makes tagged addresses a lot more useful and automatic. Also, you only use tagged addresses with Port87, because your bare address doesn’t actually go through to you, but instead auto responds with a list of your public label addresses.

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