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by snorremd 2171 days ago
I used this for a few sites, but then stopped as I realized this would be a pain to change if I ever wanted to change to a different email provider.

Wish every provider would support this as I’m sure spammers have caught on to the plus addressing scheme.

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The majority of spam [that gets past various RBLs] that I receive is completely ignorant of the dash addressing that I use. It's exactly the same as plus addressing but with a dash instead of a plus.

Pharma spam, 419 scams, password leak crypto blackmail... remember that these miscreants rely on low costs to achieve their profits, so any sort of filtering is too expensive. They don't even filter out abuse@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, or mailer-daemon@.

I run a paid service called Kopi (https://kopi.cloud) that is meant to deal with exactly this issue.

You can use a shared domain:`hackernews@snorremd.kopi.cloud` Or, after setting up an MX and a TXT DNS record, you can use your own domain: `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com`.

You can change the "real address" of any "forwarder" (`snorremd.kopi.cloud`/`mail.snorremd.com`) to relay to any address you want, whenever you want.

You can block individual addresses like `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com` with two clicks starting from your mail client.

You can also configure individual addresses to redirect to RSS so you can read newsletters or other "chatty" services as part of your normal browsing habits.

This should work on gsuite, for example, if you use your own domain and set up a route for unknown users.