Yeah, see, that's exactly what I mean - It can't be too difficult to design a smtp server (or just a plugin or milter) that manages the aliases for you. I know with gmail, regardless of what I specify as "my address" in my mail client, when I authenticate to smtp.gmail.com for an outbound message, gmail will rewrite the From address to say whatever gmail thinks it should be. How hard could it be for the smtp server to rewrite the outbound From address based on some criteria, such as, who it's being sent to. I know there's some complexity, like, how do you choose what the From is going to say, when there's more than one recipient etc. But I think it all consolidates down to some relatively simple rules. *sparkles in my eyes* . hehehe, blowing steam again. ;-)
In exchange 07, they got rid of the ability (for all intents and purposes) to have a catchall. But it's really easy to have infinite aliases. So now I have something like 300 aliases; I just create one whenever I'm about to give it out. If I'm not in front of my computer at the time, such as giving my email to some person I just met, I just reuse one that I know already exists. Not quite as awesome as having a managed catchall, but it's as close as I can get for now. I receive absolutely no junkmail (unless you count email from my relatives who want to rant on political or religious issues), and I have absolutely no junkmail filter. I've been using "nedharvey.com" this way for . I guess 10-12 years. It's so effective, I wish it would catch on better, and have better online identity management tools come along with it. From: Christophe Kalt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:13 PM To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: tech Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Email naming convention On 2009-10-23, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I do magnificently well with [email protected] . I never give out the same email address twice. (Note, [email protected], and [email protected], etc) and when I start receiving spam on some address . I know who let my address "leak" to spammers, and I simply throw away that address (or filter it). I used to use and love this as well, until I started getting spam to [email protected], then I just gave up. (And as you mentioned, it can be pain to manage from the sending perspective.)
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