[kwlug-disc] Email server (lets bring this up again!)

[Chamunks]

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.

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:59 AM Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:

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