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For those not yet familiar with the convenience and utility of email catch-all domains, they provides very convenient "canary" flagging of who sold your email address to a third party marketer. I.e., when you make a purchase at ebaysmells.com, and your email address is for example ebaysmells.com@myfunkydomain.me, then when, some months later you receive an email from Zhing Wha Good Electronics $2 sale, and that email is sent to ebaysmells.com@myfunkydomain.me, you can have a fair idea that either ebaysmells.com, or the shop/person you made your original purchase from, is attempting to make opportunistic use of your email address. There are a couple issues with this feature however, which are mostly evident to anyone who uses them: - When you are legimitely emailed from the web shop, news media provider or other, then one wants or often enough actually needs, to reply to the sender using as a From address, the To address they used to email you. Not doing so can easily mean no response as your normal email address gets completely lost and not tracked in their CRM system. - As one solution, some email clients can be configured to always reply From the same address To which the email was sent. - This gives rise to the next problem which I keep slipping up on since I changed my MUA config, that my canary email addresses are being used as the From address when I forward emaisl, rather than just when I reply which is what I thought I'd configured. This may not be configurable, which would mean remembering to manually change the From address every time I forward an email. I send this in the expectation that some may like to be aware of this feature of domain management, when you own/ control your own domain. Being able to rattle off a random (to the other person) but traceable (by you) email address at conferences, to business people etc, is quite a handy thing to be able to do. Enjoy, Zenaan On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:31:10AM -0700, Sean Lynch wrote:
I see Zenaan has dropped the pretense of not working for Russia Insider!
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 5:55 PM, justa <russia-insider.com@freedbms.net> wrote:
Yes, I've always done this. The other downside is that the anti-spam laws were not designed to protect people in this mode: You can only unsub one address at a time, not a whole domain. Automation can help that, but it is a pain. Email clients are spotty on multiple identity support. Thunderbird supports many accounts and identities, but it can get a little confused sometimes. The biggest bug gotcha is that when you resume a draft, it will often choose a random from identity. I've accidentally mixed up realms in ways I seriously did not intend. I try to address check every message. I've been meaning to dig into Thunderbird to fix it, but low on my priority list. sdw On 10/3/16 2:59 PM, zen@freedbms.net wrote:
For those not yet familiar with the convenience and utility of email catch-all domains, they provides very convenient "canary" flagging of who sold your email address to a third party marketer.
I.e., when you make a purchase at ebaysmells.com, and your email address is for example ebaysmells.com@myfunkydomain.me, then when, some months later you receive an email from Zhing Wha Good Electronics $2 sale, and that email is sent to ebaysmells.com@myfunkydomain.me, you can have a fair idea that either ebaysmells.com, or the shop/person you made your original purchase from, is attempting to make opportunistic use of your email address.
There are a couple issues with this feature however, which are mostly evident to anyone who uses them:
- When you are legimitely emailed from the web shop, news media provider or other, then one wants or often enough actually needs, to reply to the sender using as a From address, the To address they used to email you. Not doing so can easily mean no response as your normal email address gets completely lost and not tracked in their CRM system.
- As one solution, some email clients can be configured to always reply From the same address To which the email was sent.
- This gives rise to the next problem which I keep slipping up on since I changed my MUA config, that my canary email addresses are being used as the From address when I forward emaisl, rather than just when I reply which is what I thought I'd configured. This may not be configurable, which would mean remembering to manually change the From address every time I forward an email.
I send this in the expectation that some may like to be aware of this feature of domain management, when you own/ control your own domain. Being able to rattle off a random (to the other person) but traceable (by you) email address at conferences, to business people etc, is quite a handy thing to be able to do.
Enjoy, Zenaan
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:31:10AM -0700, Sean Lynch wrote:
I see Zenaan has dropped the pretense of not working for Russia Insider!
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 5:55 PM, justa <russia-insider.com@freedbms.net> wrote:
sdw
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