In exchange 07, they got rid of the ability (for all intents and purposes)
to have a catchall. But it's really easy to have infinite aliases. So now
I have something like 300 aliases; I just create one whenever I'm about to
give it out. If I'm not in front of my computer at the time, such as giving
my email to some person I just met, I just reuse one that I know already
exists. Not quite as awesome as having a managed catchall, but it's as
close as I can get for now.
I receive absolutely no junkmail (unless you count email from my relatives
who want to rant on political or religious issues), and I have absolutely no
junkmail filter. I've been using "nedharvey.com" this way for . I guess
10-12 years. It's so effective, I wish it would catch on better, and have
better online identity management tools come along with it.
From: Christophe Kalt [mailto:***@taranis.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:13 PM
To: Edward Ned Harvey
Cc: tech
Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Email naming convention
On 2009-10-23, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I do magnificently well with ***@nedharvey.com . I never give out the
same email address twice. (Note, ***@nedharvey.com, and
***@nedharvey.com, etc) and when I start receiving spam on some
address . I know who let my address "leak" to spammers, and I simply throw
away that address (or filter it).
I used to use and love this as well, until I started getting spam to
$***@domain.com, then I just gave up. (And as you mentioned, it can be
pain to manage from the sending perspective.)
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color:#1F497D'>Yeah, see, that’s exactly what I mean – It can’t
be too difficult to design a smtp server (or just a plugin or milter) that
manages the aliases for you. I know with gmail, regardless of what I
specify as “my address” in my mail client, when I authenticate to smtp.gmail.com
for an outbound message, gmail will rewrite the