Originally Posted by
LIH Prem
gmail also supports aliases. In addition to that ... you can always roll your own ....
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-the-i...ail-1609458192
The +anything thing is not gmail specific, it's part of the standard, so anybody should be able to do that using any email service, but you should probably test it first. Once in a while (not very often) I come across forms that won't accept the plus sign despite the fact that it's legal in an email address.
-David
Yes, Gmail has ‘aliases’, but they’re not as useful when trying to mask your email address; it would be quite easy for anyone to identify the actual base email address if they were looking for it or write a script to strip out the ‘+’ and anything between it and the ‘@‘.
I maxed out my 10 aliases for Hotmail a while ago, now just keep track of whether I need to cancel one and create a new one in its place (they have some controls around removing / replacing aliases... something like no more than 3 a year?)
Apple Mail does allow custom aliases, apparently... but not sure how many people actually use it.
Y!mail.... *shrug*. Gotta remember to export everything out before the Oath sale is fully closed...