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tell me more about how you use aliases.
you just using a new one for every service?
Back when I used self hosted mail, I wrote an extension that requested a new alias based on the domain of the website.
Like [email protected]
If the site got compromised I would update the random characters.
I still have 800+ aliases left over from this. But after moving to hosted mail I never updated the extension.
Surprisingly little known fact, email addresses actually have the concept of aliases built in (and it's relatively well supported despite being a bit niche):
[email protected]
Will end up in the inbox of
[email protected]
But will retain the alias in the To field
The downside is that if a sender is particularly shitty it could detect this and remove the alias again.
Note: not every provider supports this.
Also, gmail addresses ignore periods. [email protected] and [email protected] will end up in the same inbox