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Old 18 Oct 2021, 10:17 PM   #27
JamesHenderson
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Originally Posted by xyzzy View Post
Which is the scheme I described in another thread. At least with the subdomained alias you get to choose the "anything" in anything@me.fastmail.fm which can be descriptive of who or what the address is being used for. Or to put it another way, what am I missing with this "masked" address feature that was compelling enough for FM to add it other than a tie-in with 1Password? Simplicity maybe comes to mind but what else?
I actually use 1Password but (like you, I think) I use a subdomain at my personal domain for all my masked emails. ...I do store them in 1Password and have never had a problem.

Being able to choose the word before the @ helps me as I link it to the website in question. ...I think this would help me know where spam comes from if that website sells my email info etc.

...but I see this can be useful to those that don't have their own domain to do this with.

Last edited by JamesHenderson : 18 Oct 2021 at 10:18 PM. Reason: addig last paragraph...
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