the University of London leaked my email address to 3rd party spam senders. I know because I made a new one and they were the first I shared it with

@kaia i have a catchall domain so i give a new email address to every service just by making one up, it's interesting to see who leaks your data

@lain @kaia you're running your own mail server?

@hakui @kaia i did it for 10 years but i don't do it anymore, you can have catch-all domains without running your own service.

@lain @hakui may I ask which provider you currently use

@kaia @hakui i use fastmail and protonmail. protonmail has now integrated on-demand email address generation into their password manager product, but i don't use it because i use bitwarden.

@lain @kaia i'm still using my university email lol

should probably have a plan b some time

@hakui @kaia maybe just buy a domain and forward to your existing email, then once you switch it won't matter that much

@lain @kaia yeah but i'll have to update all those websites that use email addresses as their username, mendoi

@hakui @kaia
> using the same email address on multiple services ever

OPSEC master hakui what happened to you

@lain @hakui
I still don't understand the catch-all thing. is that something you configure on the domain provider side?

@kaia @hakui many domain providers offer something like that but it's actually configured on a mail server. your domain DNS settings tell everyone which other server is responsible to deliver mail for that domain, so if you run the server or a service offers it, they can just deliver all incoming mail to the same inbox. fastmail offers explicit catch-all, proton does not i think, but you can achieve it by having an in-between mail relay that is run by your domain registrar (that only forwards mail to your actual address), many offer that service.

@lain @kaia @hakui
Proton does have catch-all for your custom domains for premium accounts, I use it myself — works fine.