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

  • Kashif Shah
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    351 year ago

    lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem

  • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    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.

    • @cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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      31 year ago

      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

  • @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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    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.

  • @stephenaziel1@lemmy.world
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    110 months ago

    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: yourname@gmail.com yourname@yahoo.com This should resolve the issue

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    31 year ago

    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

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      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.

    • @drathvedro@lemm.ee
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      I just go with full domain names. Like change.org@yourna.me. Even combos where data is shared, like shop.com-bank.org@your.name or jitsi.corp-gravatar.com@your.name. 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…

  • pacoboyd
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    311 year ago

    Here’s the thing, you own the domain, set up what ever email alias you want and send it to your primary.

    • Starayo
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      51 year ago

      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…

  • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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    351 year ago

    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

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    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.

    • @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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      151 year ago

      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.

      • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        31 year ago

        Check out PurelyMail - only charges by emails sent/received and storage. No limits on accounts or domains connected.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    161 year ago

    If your domain is your actual name, then it should be trivial to create an SMTP alias for mail@domain.com that is for yourname@domain.com.

    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 firstnamelastname@gmail.com also gets email for:

    firstname.lastname@gmail.com
    first.name.last.name@gmail.com

    Or any combination…

    f.i.r.s.t.n.a.m.e.l.a.s.t.n.a.m.e@gmail.com