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Do you know of any obscure useful websites? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So, you can do this with gmail already. What's your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can also do it with Protonmail. myname@protonmail.com turns into myname+service@protonmail.com

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use appname@mydomain.com

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy's service.

    Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it's a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and "magically" convert it to a category in the main inbox.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Google doesn't even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.

    So if you have abraxas@gmail.com and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using whatever@abraxas.me you want. There's no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? lemmyworld@abraxas.me will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy's service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn't just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you able to differentiate between emails as they come in? E.g., seeing an email was sent to lemmyworld@abraxas.me vs spammynewsletter@abracas.me?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is trivial to strip +xyz from all of the email addresses in a list.

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