New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?
Ask HN: How do you use email aliases?
3 by Blip-A | 3 comments on Hacker News.
For those of you that use a custom domain name for your email address, how (if at all) do you make use of email aliases? I've seen many people recommend to use a unique alias for each account (e.g. github@myname.com, reddit@myname.com, etc.) in order to mitigate spam, but I'm wondering if this is more trouble than it's worth. Are there any unexpected consequences of doing this? I would like to keep things as simple as possible. I'm considering just having one alias for personal/professional correspondence, one alias for "trusted" accounts (i.e. services that I don't think are likely to sell/leak my email address to spammers), and one alias for less trusted accounts. What do you guys use/recommend?
3 by Blip-A | 3 comments on Hacker News.
For those of you that use a custom domain name for your email address, how (if at all) do you make use of email aliases? I've seen many people recommend to use a unique alias for each account (e.g. github@myname.com, reddit@myname.com, etc.) in order to mitigate spam, but I'm wondering if this is more trouble than it's worth. Are there any unexpected consequences of doing this? I would like to keep things as simple as possible. I'm considering just having one alias for personal/professional correspondence, one alias for "trusted" accounts (i.e. services that I don't think are likely to sell/leak my email address to spammers), and one alias for less trusted accounts. What do you guys use/recommend?
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