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

[Bob Jonkman]

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There are existing services that do something similar. I've used
https://mailinator.com but their domain is often blocked by sites that
require registration. They do have a bunch of donated MX domains that
point to their service, in an effort to obfuscate their domain name.

- --Bob.


On 2017-12-16 10:47 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:
> 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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