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by maeil 614 days ago
> And that also goes for custom domains hosted on gmail. You only need a MX query to learn who is responsible for mail handling in a specific domain

Curious why this matters? Let's say you know abc@foo.com is hosted on gmail, so what?

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In this case is safe to assume abc@foo.com, a.b.c@foo.com and abc+def@foo.com are all the same inbox. So you can just use the canonical form (abc@foo.com) to hide where you got this email address from.