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

@m0xee @kaia @hakui you are right, i even have it configured, no idea why i thought otherwise.

@lain
AFAIR it was originally a business-account-only feature and remained such for quite some time. They changed their mind when they introduced family accounts and decided to give everyone a taste of it 😁
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