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Why couldn't spammers just:

  s/(\w+)@(\w+)\.(fastmail\.fm)/\2@\3/g
...or equivalent?



In that instance you can. What is also nice though is if you have a custom domain, you can set the custom domain to do the same thing AND have an alias.

So for me, I have a few emails in my custom domain:

{firstname}@example.com

market@example.com

(there's others, but it's not relavent to this discussion).

market@example.com just goes straight to spam, as I don't use that email for anything. foo@market.example.com is used for each email instance. It works out extremely well.


It looks like you can accomplish this directly with Fastmail as well using aliases, e.g. foo@marketalias.fastmail.com (or one of their pseudonyms).




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