[TriLUG] OT: Personal Email Vendor Selection

Igor Partola igor at igorpartola.com
Wed Sep 21 10:31:15 EDT 2011


I think the use case is that you give your email to some shady website where
you suspect they'd sell your email to spammers, but you still for whatever
reason need to get past the form and get the confirmation email. This way,
you can immediately mark ipartola+foobar at gmail.com as spam, get the initial
email from the spam folder, and forget about the rest. Even if the emails to
that address are no longer coming from foobar.com, they are still filtered.

I personally always found it more work than it's worth to set this up, but
if you want to keep tabs on who is sending you the most spam, etc., it's
great. My personal use case is that I can register for multiple accounts on
the same site, allowing me to easily do form registration testing. As far as
the website is concerned, I am a brand new person, but I get all the emails
in one inbox.

Igor

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Eric H. Christensen <
eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:41:50PM -0400, Igor Partola wrote:
> > You lose an important feature: ipartola+anything at gmail.com still goes to
> me.
> > This way I could theoretically set up ipartola+trilug at gmail.com, and
> then
> > create custom filters based on the +trilug part. In fact I hear a lot of
> > people use that trick with various spam-prone services (think
> > ipartola+thegap at gmail.com, ipartola+outbacksteakhouse at gmail.com, etc).
> You
> > can't do this with just the Google Apps for Domains account (AFAIK at
> > least). You can have a catchall address, though, so you could simulate
> it.
>
> You can still create rules to add labels to your incoming mail.  Many of
> the rules I have setup are for lists and gmail will actually read the mail
> headers to make it easier to filter on tags in the header.
>
> - --Eric
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