eezeebee@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoI started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me?lemmy.caimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageI started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me?lemmy.caeezeebee@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarevortic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWhen you say email aliases, what do you mean? A lot of services strip plusses from emails now, right?
minus-squaresleepmode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoNot sure. But Proton, Apple, passmail and some other providers have a way you can create email aliases on the fly that forward to your real address. I think Microsoft does too but it was limited last time I looked at it.
minus-squarevortic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThank you, I’ll look into options.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoYou can use something like SimpleLogin to create email aliases that can’t be traced back to your real email address. Edit: other options are available, such as Firefox Relay which does exactly the same thing.
When you say email aliases, what do you mean? A lot of services strip plusses from emails now, right?
Not sure. But Proton, Apple, passmail and some other providers have a way you can create email aliases on the fly that forward to your real address. I think Microsoft does too but it was limited last time I looked at it.
Thank you, I’ll look into options.
You can use something like SimpleLogin to create email aliases that can’t be traced back to your real email address.
Edit: other options are available, such as Firefox Relay which does exactly the same thing.