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This past weekend, I finally have purchased my own domain and was contemplating using it for email.

I had thought about a catch all, but was worried about bots. What is the best option?

Do you create addresses such as:

    eyeball@customdomain.com (for the eye doctor)
    tooth@customdomain.com (for the dentist)
    bank@customdomain.com 
    realfirstname@
    reddit@
    ...
    ...

I would like the ability that if I am in a situation that someone says "give me your email for..." and I would like the ability to just hand them something that is disposable. Would I just stand up say 10 addresses like:

random1, random2, random3... then delete them at some point in the future?

I really like Cloud's Hide My Email, but have been looking for alternatives since I am not sure where Apple is heading post Tim Cook.

For things I know ahead of time I'm going to need to give someone an email for (e.g. the dentist), I'll pre-make that address and have it ready for when they ask for it. For one-offs / unprepared asks for my email I usually just give them my 'main' initials@personaldomain.com e-mail just for the simplicity... Fastmail does let you use *@personaldomain.com to forward to your main address, but for the rare circumstance in which you need to reply to one of those emails, you do need to configure it in the settings.

Fastmail is probably the best $60/year I spend

Thanks. I really don't use email that often; I might get 20 emails a month, and those are just notifications versus actual actionable communications that require a response.

I have been looking at Fastmail, along with Purelymail ($10/year), which seems to have similar features.

I use Migadu to host my email, and they have a really cool wildcard-style system where I can basically define a regex string, and any email address matching that string goes to my main email. In my case, I use a specific set of numbers just before the @ as the matching string (let’s say, “45”), so email to firstname45@domain works, or doctor45@domain, or library45@domain all get delivered. Since the spammers don’t know this, I don’t get any spam. But I still have the benefit of being able to make up arbitrary emails on the spot for any purpose.

Outstanding. That's a super idea.

Migadu has been on my radar also, and at $19/yr it is worth giving it a try.

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