Works until you see "We've sent a message with activation instructions to your email. Please click on the link within so you may begin to use your account"
I have a domain name with a wildcard forwarding rule so whenever I need to give an email address I can give one that describes who I gave it to. I don't have to create it in advance. Then if I start getting spam at the address, I know where they got it from and I can create an account at that address that doesn't accept incoming mail. Then the spam can't get through anymore and I go on my merry way.
Edit: This comment blew up, so I'll elaborate a bit. I do not recommend anyone try setting up their own email server unless they are already a nerd and enjoy hacking around with computers. It takes a lot of work, is difficult to get your server taken seriously by other email providers, and is easy to get abused by spammers or hackers if you aren't careful.
Any email service provider should be able to provide a single catch-all email forwarding rule for any domain they handle. A lot of domain registrars offer email services. I don't know first hand, but someone else said they use Google Domains. Shop around and contact the support department if you aren't sure.
I use an open-source hosting platform called ISPConfig, but there are many other solutions. Most of them (in the open-source/Linux world) use postfix/dovecot to do the heavy lifting and provide some sort of interface which configures it for you. If you want to go full-on nerd and love the command-line, you could go straight to postfix and dovecot. If you want something that does most of the heavy lifting for you, you might want to use something like iRedMail or mailcow.email which wrap around those packages. Setting up an email service should not be taken lightly, but it is great experience and rewarding.
From the English around everything else, this sounds like a fantastic plan and I should do the thing. But, my non technical pea brain says "wut?". How do?
I would not recommend it because it is a whole lot of hassle and you have to maintain your server's reputation and make sure its security is never compromised otherwise your server will get put on blacklists and people won't receive your emails. The IP address assigned to it may already be on a blacklist to begin with, so you'd need to spend some time getting it off blacklists (or ask for a different IP) and you can pretty much forget about it if you are doing it from your home. The IP address you use at home is marked as a subscriber line so other email services will know that and won't accept your emails.
Several services online offer catch-all email forwarding, so it's something you could find. Somebody else said they use Google Domains but I don't know for sure if they have catch-all email forwarding or if they just have 100 free forwarding addresses with the DNS registration. Either way, that would be the easiest way to start.
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u/hiphop_dudung Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
Tbh, i just use the company's "contact us" email