<div dir="ltr">So a little update on my own personal Mailinabox.email instance is I don't generally get blacklisted these days. I haven't run official tests in a while but it seems that I hit inboxes all the time now.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:59 AM Chris Irwin <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 03:30:14PM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:<br>
> At a recent home and garden show, one of the vendors mentioned that<br>
>someone with their own domain, used the vendor's business name as part of<br>
>the email. So a company named 'Ron Howard Construction' would be given the<br>
>email '<a href="mailto:ronhoward@mydomain.com" target="_blank">ronhoward@mydomain.com</a>'.<br>
<br>
I've done this for years via catch-all. Any unclaimed addresses on my <br>
domain get routed to my primary address.<br>
<br>
>I assumed this would just be a catch-all, which works... but with one<br>
>caveat; you can't easily respond with 'ronhoward'. Instead, your catch-all<br>
>address is returned, which kind of defeats the purpose.<br>
<br>
Reply capability varies depending on your configuration, provider, and <br>
clients.<br>
<br>
If you're self-hosting, I'm sure you can figure out how to allow postfix <br>
to let you send mail from any address within your domain.<br>
<br>
I used to have my domain hosted with Google ("GSuite"), and you had to <br>
pre-configure sending addresses separately from aliases. The process <br>
involved google sending a mail to that address you wish to send from, <br>
you clicking a link authorizing google to use that address. You can then <br>
switch at compose time (via web).<br>
<br>
I currently have my domain hosted with Fastmail. They're intelligent <br>
enough to automatically allow you to send mail from any aliases which <br>
forward to your address. Their web interface is smart enough to <br>
automatically use the alias as your 'from' address when replying, <br>
including adjusting your signature.<br>
<br>
For the most part, I use local email clients -- Mutt & Geary on my <br>
laptop, and Aquamail on Android. Mutt allows me to alter the 'from' <br>
address on a per-message basis, and Fastmail SMTP allows it (via the <br>
same alias rules). However, I haven't bothered investigating aliases on <br>
either Geary or Aquamail. Your client may/may not support aliases.<br>
<br>
Mutt probably has a way to automatically change the from address on <br>
replies, but I've never really needed to worry about it.<br>
<br>
>I would like to set this up, mostly just because it's there, and I want<br>
>to... I may never use it...<br>
<br>
I use it for almost every website I ever sign up for. If I ever start <br>
getting spam on that address, there's no wonder about where it was <br>
leaked. It also allows me to blackhole addresses, and I only need to <br>
worry about the one site that used that address.<br>
<br>
I occasionally use it in-person (for example: a store wants to email <br>
receipts to you), but sometimes explaining "no, that really is my <br>
address. I'm just a really big home depot fan" is awkward.<br>
<br>
In practice, I haven't had to blackhole anything (spam filters are <br>
pretty decent).<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Chris Irwin<br>
<br>
email: <a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a><br>
xmpp: <a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a><br>
web: <a href="https://chrisirwin.ca" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://chrisirwin.ca</a><br>
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