alt Hacker NewsUse <service>@<yourdomain> as your email address when signing up, and check the To header when receiving emails.
And/or, long-press or right-click on any link to inspect the linked domain.
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zahlman • last Friday at 8:10 PM
What fraction of people do you suppose actually have a <yourdomain> to do this with?
Even some highly technically inclined people (like myself) can be entirely ignorant of the process. It's not as if consumer ISPs provide the service.
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epistasis • last Friday at 8:34 PM
If you don't control your own domain fully, almost all email services let you do:
And have it go to [email protected] with the servicetag still in the To: field. At least, I have never encountered a problem with this.
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I often go one step futher by appending a short random identifier, `{service}.{id}@{domain}`, to make it harder to guess (in case someone learned of my email address policy).
I created a little GTK program to help: https://github.com/LightAndLight/gen-alias