[corlinpalmer]

My name’s Corlin and I own corl.in

I sign up for accounts with emails like [e-mail] and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox.

But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.

[whemy]

I do that as well, my domain is my last name .fr

When changing ISP, I gave [e-mail] and the dude got confused and couldn't understand. He wanted to call his supervisor to ask if I was allowed to do that.

[Handytinge]

As someone who does a similar thing, I get this a lot. One of the most concerning (and common ones) is "oh, do you work here?".

[blowski]

I deal with this by reversing the brandname, or coming up with some other code. So long as it's unique per signup, I can trace back anyway.

[moritonal]

Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.

[dewey]

> Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.

Almost every email host that supports custom domains supports receiving email with unlimited wild-cards. Is there something I'm missing?

Example: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ ($3/month)

[moritonal]

I think you're missing that the feature we're talking about is specifically within the $5/month option, in much the same way that ProtonMail (the one I use), also hides their catch-all option behind a higher price-point.

I'm also fairly sure that they don't let you reply as the address the catch-all was placed on, which is an important feature.

If you know any that do, that'd be great.

[dewey]

True, I missed that "custom domain" isn't part of the lowest tier.

The point still stands though, if you have a mail provider that supports custom domains there usually isn't a limit on the catch all aliases you can add (or a very high one). In any case it's far from being "prohibitively" expensive.

> I'm also fairly sure that they don't let you reply as the address the catch-all was placed on

That is definitely possible with Fastmail as that's how I use it. In their case I believe that feature is called "Alias". If you reply to an email you just select with alias you want to reply from.

[chipsa]

I use Cloudflare Email Routing. Only problem I currently have is if I don't think ahead, I might have to setup the alias on the spot (probably should setup a catch all to make sure that it doesn't just drop them). And that redirects stuff to generally anywhere (though I mostly have it setup to redirect to an outlook.com family plan, which is already paid for for other reasons).

[nexxer]

I do something similar with the old Gmail for Domains product (or whatever it was called before Workspace) - it lets me add real mailboxes but also have a catch-all, where everything else gets delivered to a specific address.

I know this is not available any more so I've done the same with Cloudflare Email Routing which lets you set up a catch-all and is (still) free.

[yencabulator]

Protip: [e-mail]