For security reasons ( lemmy.world )

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Please use a personal email.
My email is 'mail' @ 'my actual name'. It does not get more personal than that

But you can't use emails starting with mail@, admin@, support@, info@, main@, etc.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like
Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

If your domain is your actual name, then it should be trivial to create an SMTP alias for mail@domain.com that is for yourname@domain.com.

Attach that to your email address and inbound email for either will get to you, but only your primary address will be used for outbound communication.

Another fun one...

Gmail ignores periods in addresses.

So firstnamelastname@gmail.com also gets email for:

firstname.lastname@gmail.com
first.name.last.name@gmail.com

Or any combination...

f.i.r.s.t.n.a.m.e.l.a.s.t.n.a.m.e@gmail.com

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

If you own the domain being used, I assume you also host your own email... You can't just make a new address for this and have them all forwarded to your actual email?

"This_is_not_generic" @ "your actual name"

Unless they block that too, I don't think they're trying to force those services on you; they're just popular options and this is an automated response sent by an automated process that only checks the first half of the email and not the domain.

teletext ,

That's quite a sensible rule, actually.

kashifshah ,

lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem

teletext ,

Yes, so they don't become a spam proxy filling up RFC 2142 address names.

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