On 6/13/20 2:07 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
Amen. The other fun thing you can do is create unique email addresses
for every website that wants you to make a login. I just add a new line
to /etc/aliases, run 'newaliases' (I do sendmail), and then I've got a
site-specific email address that will go to my normal inbox. When that
site gets hacked and I start getting spam to that address, I not only
know who leaked, but can decide if I want to keep that address anymore
without impacting anything else.
I used to have a (Rust!) program running on my e-mail server that
allowed me to send a special e-mail to a special address and it would
create a new alias for me, and send a confirming e-mail back to me. Easy
enough to do while waiting in line for a rental car, or the like.
Alas, I don't have it running at the moment because I have a hacky dual
server system running (did I say my DSL has gotten unreliable?) and I
need to update it to work across two servers, keeping the alias files in
sync. I have it mostly figured out (crafting for idempotence makes such
things easier), but I haven't programmed it yet.
All possible because I run my own e-mail server.
-kb
P.S. I have an alias I used to order some spare parts from Sony...and
then they leaked it and now it is all spam.
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