[kwlug-disc] So I was auditing my accounts online and thought of something.

[Keefer Rourke]

What you're describing sounds a lot like a catch-all or wildcard email address. You can set this up easily if you own a domain with MX records and use a host such as Runbox for example (https://runbox.com). They at least have some help docs and tutorials [1].

How would this be different exactly? You could for instance use a vanity domain that isn't directly identifiable to you (set up whois guard or whatever) and just specify whatever string you want on the local part of the email address.

So if you own the imaginary domain foobar.bazz, then facecreep at foobar.bazz, tweeter at foobar.bazz, grubleminus at foobar.bazz, etc can specified as your account details, and all incoming mail to those addresses is "caught" by your wildcard address. Of course this might invite unwanted spam, SpamAssassin is usually good enough, and a good mail host will let you configure filters.

[1] https://help.runbox.com/catch-all/

- Keefer, who hopes this helps in place of such a yet-to-exist mail-service

On December 16, 2017 10:22:10 PM EST, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>What about making an email provider that you log in with a 12 English
>word
>seed and a password.  The word seed would result in you having possibly
>tens if not hundreds of disposable email addresses for only incoming
>mail.
>
>The point of this technology would be so that you could use any of
>these
>email addresses for signing up for online services where you don't want
>them to have your email address.
>
>Just thinking about ways to make social graphing more difficult for
>those
>who are taking your privacy for no value added.
>
>Maybe as a premium service to help support the website you could sell
>SMTP/POP3 access so that you could respond to people.  Maybe you could
>send
>a message or two outgoing here and there in case you needed to resolve
>something to do with your account or talk to support but otherwise spam
>could be a real problem with this provider without precautions like
>this.
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