> Basically you should pre-authorize the senders

This is kinda what 'masked email' services like Fastmail's – of which I am a delighted customer – do.

Until you've known the comfort of creating an address; giving it to a service; deciding that you want to end your relationship with them; just deleting that address, without changing your mailbox or infrastructure or archives or anything else … it's kinda life changing. I recommend everyone try it.

Also, the chances of a phisher trying to get my BigBank details by sending mail to lonely.chicken6382@spuriously-named-and-unused-other-than-for-email-domain.com are … well, it seems unlikely.

I've never felt more secure. For real.

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Hnrobert42 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I like per recipient emails, but I worried how I would know I authorized that sender to send to lonely chicken. The original site could have been compromised.

That's why I bought my email domain and use <domain_name>@hnrobert42.com. It helps to use a password manager.

I get a lot of convincing emails to linkedin@hnrobert42.com. As well as zynga, wework, etc.

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prepend 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do something similar with prepend.com and find it helpful for sorting. Also fun to see which domains sell my email and which dont (blacksocks.com hasn’t show up from anyone else in 20 years).

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marysol5 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use +, so username+domainname@email-vendor.com

Which is in the RFC, but yet the sheer amount of times I sign up for something. Like a bank, or a financial firm, get the confirmation e-mail, and then click "Verify your address"

And get HTTP500 as their SQL has kicked up a stink

	▲	tolciho 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(The RFC also allows for (recursive (comments, so there's probably a middle ground between insanely overengineered specifications and a )))regex( someone found on a PHP forum somewhere (and yes this post is a valid email address (assuming there is a local regex account (or alias)))

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latexr 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> That's why I bought my email domain and use <domain_name>@hnrobert42.com. It helps to use a password manager.

Whenever there’s this discussion on HN, someone usually points out that can sometimes be a bother, especially when giving out the email in person, because people don’t really understand how email addresses works and ask “how did you get that email” or think you’re impersonating the service, or something similar.

I guess a solution might be to add the details sneakily. E.g. instead of linkedin@hnrobert42.com, saying robert_lkdn@hnrobert42.com

	▲	inigyou 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've done alice@myname.com, bob@myname.com, etc. I don't keep track of them carefully so I may pick the same name for two different sites. It also makes it easier to pass off a fake realname! Hi I'm John Smith, jsmith@oneofmydomains-nottooobvious.com... You can even pick a domain sound like a legitimate mail service or company, e.g. jsmith@jgs-consulting.com.or jsmith@liberty-mail.io All domains and addresses in this comment are fictitious - overlap with real domains is coincidental.
	▲	prepend 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		And some sites seem to have it not work. I suspect there’s lazy programmers with hardcoded test cases. But that’s like 1:100 or so. And usually I’m entering my address to a robot so it’s not an issue.
	▲	marysol5 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The weird looks when I tell a shop my e-mail is "name plus sign shopname AT mydomain dot com"

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ksidjdjdjsjd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple’s Hide My Email does the same thing and it’s just phenomenal.

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patja 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Apple is a problematic email service provider. They don't even send DMARC reports.

	▲	ksidjdjdjsjd 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Irrelevant to the subject of the Hide My Email feature.

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shevy-java 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Damn it - ublock origin did not block this promo.

The amount of bots promoting Fastmail here is insane. What the actual ...