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Ask HN: Can you recommend a personal email provider with regex aliases?

2 points by Normal_gaussian ↗ HN
Hi HN, my email provider pulled a fast one on me over the weekend - overhauling their UI and dropping their regex alias functionality without warning. Not what you want from a paid service.

I very successfully operate a <site>.<date>.<nonce>@<mydomain> schema for personal email, using regex aliases to manage "users", and blacklists to eliminate spam. The largest draw of this schema is detecting when companies are breached / leak my data (4 times in 6 years), and when some company misuses information I gave them for something else (countless times).

I also use it to manage alerts and priorities for a handful of custom systems to special mailboxes.

Not every email provider can support such a schema, and until today I was very happy with mine - charging only for a ceiling on daily sends and total mailbox size with unlimited mailboxes.

I don't want to go back to managing my own email (though if I have to I will) - do you guys have any recommendations?

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tucaz
Doesn’t a simple catch all work for you?
Normal_gaussian
For a basic case it would; however I also drop certain combinations by default (/.*\.blackhole@/), prioritise certain mail (synology boxes, and services/people I am waiting on are aliased to a specific mailbox which vibrates my phone), aggregate other mail (todo's go to their own mailbox for example), and offer a disposable mail mailbox for my partner.

I was perhaps a tad simplistic with my initial description; I didn't want to bog it down with the detail.

In addition the implementation of catch alls on most services tend to circumvent blacklists (which I would like to do on receiver email address, not sender) and to catch mail destined for deliberately independent mailboxes.

jfowl
uberspace.de

They use qmail and I did something rather similar for myself.