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Best email provider against spam? (lemy.lol)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by syd@lemy.lol to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I want to use my main mail address everywhere, even public places. But I doubt if I can guard myself against spam.

Is there a provider specialized in spam protection? Or at least good at it?

At last, given your experience, should I even do it?

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. It is pretty easy to work around, but if that is the only tool you have it still can be used to junk a majority of the crap.

If you want a robust solution you can use disposable aliases (which are basically randomly generated) or signed addresses.

I do the latter. So I would generate an email like lemmy-example-59273625@kevincox.ca. If you strip or change the string at the end (which is a small HMAC) your message will go straight to junk. It isn't perfect because there is only 4 bytes of entropy in the signature but a dedicated attacker will find a better way to spam me anyways.