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[email protected] : How can I make email sub-addresses with only letters or numbers and no special characters like plus? (self.privacy)

submitted 5 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld to c/privacy

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I want a bulletproof way to give email sub-addresses, since some websites strip out special characters like + and .. I have an idea for how it could work, let's say my email is [email protected] and I have the following:

All emails sent to TheTwelveYearOld@ get blocked
I specify a suffix that would be used instead of +, perhaps "From"
I whitelist phrases that go after "From": TheTwelveYearOldFromDoorDash, TheTwelveYearOldFromGoogle, TheTwelveYearOldFromReddit

Are there any services that can do this? I'm thinking I should make my own domain for emails that way my email addresses aren't tied to any companies and I can easily switch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yahoo used to provide this. You pick a prefix like shel, and then you can create a bunch of temporary email addresses like [email protected], and shel-spam. Thing is, my email address isn't shel, it's completely different, so if you strip off the extension it's a dead email. (Also shel isn't my real prefix.)

Bad news is it's now premium only, although I'm grandfathered in. But I wonder if you could pay for a month, turn it on, then not pay for it again? Or just roll your own.