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Privacy@Lemmy.ml : Why use catch-all email domains over email aliases? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been looking at using email aliases services, and right now I'm thinking of using Simplelogin for all my online accounts and accounts where I can change my email easily, and getting my own domain to share with people and where I can't easily update my email. It seems like I shouldn't use my own domain for online services because it would be unique and can be tracked.

I did lots of reading about this and am still wondering why someone would want to opt for catch-all domains over aliases. Catch-alls seem highly susceptible to spam and while I haven't actually done any email aliasing yet, it doesn't seem to take much effort to make a new alias if you have a plan with unlimited aliases.

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[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Part of the reason I prefer having a catch-all on my own domain is that I can change providers without changing any email addresses. For example at the moment I run my own server, but in the future if that becomes too time consuming I can easily start paying for a service.

ETA: also I’ve never gotten any spam to a email I haven’t given out, people don’t really send emails to random names at a domain as far as I can tell

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This depends if you have a website on your domain and it appears on search engines. I do and had to modify Rspamd as bots were spamming addresses like abuse@ and other dictionary words.

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I use a subdomain for aliases, while my real address is at the base domain, which I suppose negates this issue.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Something like hello@sub.dom.com? I have never seen an address containing a subdomain, but cool if it's actually possible!

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, exactly. I haven’t really had any issues with any website taking the email, some people do actually have subdomains in an email for work, I know some of my teachers in school had an email like person@k12.county.state.gov.

It also has the advantage of letting you have multiple users on your server, a couple of my family members also have their own subdomain catch-all that redirects to their own base domain address.