<story><title>How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-forwarded-email-alias-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ringz</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn&amp;#x27;t just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>For me, the value of using aliases on my own domain isn&amp;#x27;t anonymity, it&amp;#x27;s provenance; I can tell where my email was obtained from based on the the prefix used. If I get an email sent to git@&amp;lt;domain&amp;gt;, I know that someone (or something) was looking at git logs to get it, if it&amp;#x27;s sent to resume@&amp;lt;domain&amp;gt;, I know someone got it from my resume, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-forwarded-email-alias-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ringz</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been like this for years. However, with one of my own domains and a catch all rule in the e-mail server. Why? From time to time, some services require that you send emails with exactly this e-mail address as the sender. And that doesn&amp;#x27;t just work with most services. Because in such a case, you have to turn exactly this e-mail address into a real account with a mailbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainNegative</author><text>In principle, someone seeing heido15wkj6@yourraredomain.com, yua16ooaaj2@yourraredomain.com, and kqoq91inhi4@yourraredomain.com in a dump might be able to infer that all of these belong to the same user with a catchall address (especially if they can verify that the domain is unpopular via dns caching or other tricks). Using a common service adds another partial layer of anonymity between the email addresses, making one harder to track.</text></comment>