I do a lot of polls on my account at Mastodon. I get the same questions or requests multiple times, so I made this FAQ to make it easier to reply. Q: Why do you do so many polls? A: I like to think…
This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), a syntax for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the framework of "electronic mail" messages.
- 1 address for family/friends - 2 for business - 5 from platforms, but they fwd to the main inbox and exist only for those platforms - a few hundred aliases across 4 domains for any online account (eg. servicename@mailbox.domain.tld for each service/account/newsletter/etc)
@Em0nM4stodon I have at least 256! email addresses available, because I have a catchall on one domain and customise the email address to each form. Then if I get spam I know who's spamming me and I can block.
I use a custom domain with multiple e-mail addresses, probably hundreds.
I use one unique e-mail address per service/company/website, so that I can track any marketing, spam, and unnanounced data breaches back to their source.
If one gets compromised & I can't close my account or stop using the service for some reason, it's easy enough to change it to another unique address on the same domain and retire the old one.
I check two inboxes (work, everything else, which has a few addresses which forward directly there) and I have a few straggly ones I have access to. I still check the emails for both of my deceased parents because you never know when they'll come in handy. I own enough domains that I guess I have infinite email addresses but I think if I was answering this question asked by some average person and they knew my setup, they'd say "Three" or possible "Four"
picture: a titanic corpus of human knowledge rivaled only by those of the great archival institutions of our time... spread across hundreds... thousands... of free tier cloud storage service accounts.
I'm going to use the RFC definition of an email address. I'll say it's mine if only I can read the messages sent to the address (no lists or shared aliases). have one each for personal, work, and school. I have another 3 or 4 for projects I'm involved in, and another 3 or 4 after that for cloud services that give email addresses out for free. Plus I do some aliases for signing into accounts; maybe 10-20. So I'd say 16 or more.
I like my mailbox organised. And I like things to be automated. Fortunately, email systems support aliases for their users, so more than one email address reaches the same person.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Wikipedia also has some interesting discussion on the topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address?wprov=sfla1
identifier of the destination where email messages are delivered
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •- 2 for business
- 5 from platforms, but they fwd to the main inbox and exist only for those platforms
- a few hundred aliases across 4 domains for any online account (eg. servicename@mailbox.domain.tld for each service/account/newsletter/etc)
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Maybe the right question to ask is "how many inboxes do you check regularly?"
3.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Zero email addresses.
I'm so far off the grid, I'm sparking this message in binary, encapsulated via the entire OSI stack interfering with a nearby router.
#l33t
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •16 or more, but a single, unified inbox.
I use a custom domain with multiple e-mail addresses, probably hundreds.
I use one unique e-mail address per service/company/website, so that I can track any marketing, spam, and unnanounced data breaches back to their source.
If one gets compromised & I can't close my account or stop using the service for some reason, it's easy enough to change it to another unique address on the same domain and retire the old one.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •<monnier+FOO@bar.com>where FOO can be anything, or Gmail's "joe@gmail.com=j.o.e@gmail.com"?Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •2--5 based on which _accounts_ I have, ignoring any automatic aliases following `-` or `+` in the `local-part`
Also, a rant: https://blog.narf.ssji.net/2012/12/11/valid_email_address_characters/
+ is a valid character in an email address! - Narf
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Ah, fair. Definitely way more than 16, then.
edit:
```~/.password-store$ find . -name \*.gpg -exec sh -c 'gpg -d {} | sed -n "s/.*email: //p"' \; | sort | uniq | wc -l
272
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