So i’ve set up a custom domain to use with protonmail and was curious if anyone else uses the catch all in this manner.

I was thinking that when a new account is created on $website I would use a custom email address that would then be caught by the ‘catch-all’. So say the domain is catata.fish, and the website is target.com, then when signing up I would use target@catata.fish. Previously when using gmail I would use email+target@gmail.com.

Does anyone see any issues doing it this way? Thanks!

  • kat@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly how I use it. Basically, if you receive spam on webshop@catata.fish you know exactly who sold/“lost” your address.

    One downside is that you cannot send from this address, but you usually don’t need that anyway. And in the rare case that you do, you can just create an actual alias.

    • Billygoat@catata.fishOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ah that is a good thing to keep in mind. Proton allows 15 email addresses on the account I have so I could always create one and delete it later.