Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that
But you can’t use emails starting with mail@, admin@, support@, info@, main@, etc.
Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc
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lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem
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Security ain’t free.
Yeah I also have a non-standard email address, and I occasionally run into systems that aren’t properly set up to handle odd domains. I’ve definitely seen the “Please enter a valid email address. Make sure it ends with @gmail/yahoo/outlook etc” messages before.
Nonstandard email sounds so wrong! As long are it is valid, there should be no limits. Especially if they ask you to confirm by clicking on a link in a mail
Oh I agree. But there are a lot of systems that don’t even recognize TLDs outside of .com, .org, and .net.
Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that
It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.
Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc
I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.
They’re advising you to use a personal email that is tied more directly to your name or identity, like using Yahoo Mail, Outlook, or Gmail, which they view as more personalized.
If you’d like, you could try creating an email address with your actual name (or a variation) on one of the recommended services, like: [email protected] [email protected] This should resolve the issue
This continues to really piss me off. I have a domain with a .xyz top level, and i’ve encountered more than a handful of services, that either repeatedly tell me I’ve meant to enter something else, or straight up block me as a spammer
Wouldn’t it make more sense to alias out each place you submit an email address to, so you can see who sells your contact details or otherwise gets hacked?
Eg: [email protected], [email protected] etc.?
This is exactly what I do. When I start getting a bunch of spam addressed to Walmart@[my domain] I can blanket filter that straight into spam because I know Walmart sold my info.
I just go with full domain names. Like [email protected]. Even combos where data is shared, like [email protected] or [email protected]. But some places actually went out of their way to disallow their own domains anywhere in the field. I’ve encountered it maybe like 3 times across all of ~1000 logins I have in my password manager.
And the amount of times I had to explain to people that yes, this is a legit email, yes it has your company’s name and your personal name in it, it is exactly as intended, so don’t send me spam because I will know it was you who sent it…
Yeah i set up a catch all mail now. It just seems like a very defensive method to me.
Here’s the thing, you own the domain, set up what ever email alias you want and send it to your primary.
Yeah, I just set up a catch-all and use individual emails for everything, like the gmail + trick but without sites rejecting + characters occasionally.
Of course, I have several domains and one is a .rodeo that some older sites refuse to believe is a TLD so there’s that problem…
Is it possible to create an alias like fuckchange@domain?
This is a feature, not a bug. The rest of us don’t want crap being sent to admin email addresses, so fix your damn email and try again.
Personally I use generated email addresses to most places, but my personal address is <FIRST>@<LAST>.us
I have all my admin/mail/webmaster/etc blacklisted a long time ago because those are the that get spam first when spammers parse lists of registered domains.
I wonder if abuse@'s get any spam…
The email i was trying to use was mail@ my actual name and surname.
It is very handy to share and easy for people to remember.
I dont feel that it needs fixing when it is perfect for me and my needs but not for some company that needs to be overly careful
Would an alias solve this?
With the tiniest, slimmest, barely existent bit of effort to make an alias - yes.
But OP would clearly prefer to complain.
Bro. You can’t sign a petition on change.org.
Just move on with your life.
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The only outrage I see is in your comment 🙄
sign me up
My friend uses me@<their name>, wonder if that would work better
Maybe we can start a change.org petition to get this resolved.
We can, op can’t
This took me too long to figure out🤣
If you own the domain being used, I assume you also host your own email… You can’t just make a new address for this and have them all forwarded to your actual email?
“This_is_not_generic” @ “your actual name”
Unless they block that too, I don’t think they’re trying to force those services on you; they’re just popular options and this is an automated response sent by an automated process that only checks the first half of the email and not the domain.
It’s pretty common to own a domain but not actually host the email server; doing on-premises email is a security PITA and most providers simply blacklist large swathes of residential and leasable (e.g. VPS) IPs.
Unfortunately, if you get someone else to host your email, they often charge by the account, not by the domain. Setting up a new mailbox is therefore irritatingly expensive.
A catch-all email works well, though, and is free from most of the hosting providers. Downside is you get spam…
Jane@JaneDoe certainly seems more common than mail@JaneDoe.
Aliases also exist, that’s what I use.
My main e-mail Is [email protected]
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If your domain is your actual name, then it should be trivial to create an SMTP alias for [email protected] that is for [email protected].
Attach that to your email address and inbound email for either will get to you, but only your primary address will be used for outbound communication.
Another fun one…
Gmail ignores periods in addresses.
So [email protected] also gets email for:
[email protected]
[email protected]Or any combination…
Then I guess for security reasons you won’t be signing up.
