[vox-tech] disposable email

Nick Schmalenberger nick at schmalenberger.us
Thu Mar 8 02:37:52 PST 2007


On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:37:00AM -0800, Troy Arnold wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:25:22AM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
> > Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> > >list,
> > >I recently registered a personal domain name and am currently using
> > >/etc/aliases to make disposable emails for registering with various
> > >commercial websites. Does anybody know of a more automatic way to do
> > >this that I can host my self? I am running exim 4.63 on debian etch, and
> > >I have tried searching for "disposable email" debian with no results
> > >besides commercial services.
> > >Thanks.
> > >_______________________________________________
> > 
> > Try looking to for "catch-all"
> 
> no no no no no.
> 
> That's not disposable, that's an invitation for spam at
> anyrandomaddress at yourdomain.
> 
> Exim supports extension addresses such as:
> disposable+amazon at yourdomain
> disposable+bestbuy at yourdomain
> 
> I'm not competent with Exim, so I can't provide details as to how to
> enable this.  A quick search did pull up this:
> http://exim.dsmirror.nl/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/FAQ.html#TOC139
> 
> -t
Thanks for the ideas!
Nick


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