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

[Andrew Stevanus (KWLUG)]

(Resending this since a lot of people probably didn't see it due to
being marked as spam last time.)

There's an extension for Firefox called "Bloody Vikings!" which
essentially automates this process through a menu in your browser. I
haven't used it myself, but it looks interesting. Mailinator is one of
the services they support, but there are others as well.

On 2017-12-17 12:30 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> 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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