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by z8 1533 days ago
I'm doing the exact same thing. Built a small web app that lets me manage all my email aliases for the domain. Unfortunately there are a couple of websites that do only allow a select list of whitelisted domains meaning I cannot use my own, but for the other 99% it works wonders. I wish I had had this idea ten years ago, it would have saved me so many headaches.
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Who whitelists email domains? Do they explain why?
I think Aliexpress does it, at least I wasn’t able to use my domain and had to use my old gmail account.

All I got was "not a valid email" or something like that.

The most recent incident I remember was with a debrid service. I opened a ticket with their support and was told that the point of the policy was to combat abuse of their service. Not entirely sure why a paid service that accepts cryptocurrencies would care about email addresses.
I think yandex does. Or at least they didn't allow one person send emails to me. "invalid address".
Is your app available?
Not as of right now, but I could put it on GitHub. It's essentially just a front end for the Gandi.net email management API. Manually editing the alias list gets cumbersome really quickly.
Also interested. Please put it on GH.