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To do something similar as an individual, I highly recommend 33mail.com [1], which provides a generous free tier, and lets you supply arbitrary <companyname@yourdomain.33mail.com>. As well as knowing where a leak originated, you can easily block any inbound email address if it is being abused.

Not affiliated, just a happy long-time paying customer.

[1] http://33mail.com/rj37w3

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I don't know what the HN policy on referral links is, but here's a link without affiliate tracking:

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That isn't strictly affiliate tracking, but yes, if you're uncomfortable with 33mail.com knowing you came from HN, don't click ATsch's link, but copy and paste it instead.

I do the same without using 33mail. I have my mail hosted on zoho mail which gives me infinite aliases that get redirected to my main address and in case I ever need to forward a mail from an alias I can create a new address with that alias, use it and then delete it. So when I register to a new site I usually input <sitename>@mydomain.com and then if I want I can create a filter to sort them automatically

me too. any new email address is

businessname@mydomain.io

Already caught a few selling my info

Same. Particularly interesting when you start getting spam to massiveCreditReportingCo@mydomain.com, or who sends mail to boughtaNewCar@mydomain.com after giving that address at the car dealership.

What do you do after you catch them? Is there any place to report them, maybe depending on which country they are based, or you simply stop doing business with them?

If you set up a catch-all for your domain, then you don't even need to create addresses unless you need to reply from that address.

You don't need to 'create' addresses there either, it's a catch-all on your person subdomain, but with one0click blocking.

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