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[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Made the switch last year from Gmail and I love it. I set up a custom domain and a catch all address as well, so I can give out whateveriwant@mydomain.com as an email and it gets to me. Particularly nice for finding out who's sharing my information, as well as picking out phishing emails. Banking coming in from amazon@mydomain.com? Immediate red flag.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Forgot about the catchall, but the realPart+fakegarbgae@myDomain.com trick works great for filtering stuff.

E: on protonMail, that is.

[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You should note that this was a Gmail feature that is now made available by a bunch of email providers, but you might wanna check that you do indeed get your emails delivered to plus addresses before you rush out to change your contact info everywhere. Some providers have lacking support and sometimes emails may fail to send to plus addresses even if your side does support it. Using a catchall will always work because you know, that's just how email works.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Some sites also reject the + emails.

I wonder why...

[–] debil@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

My current provider supports @somegarbage.mail.domain.com style which is a good alternative to the + sign thing.