Comments on: Automatic disposable email addresses for Google Apps

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:23:00 +0000

I agree that it’s obvious to a human — but you’re worried about the bots, not the humans, here.

Also, is “foo+bar+baz@domain.com” obviously going to user “foo”?

By: D B

D B — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:19:00 +0000

This is intriguing, but still it does little to protect you, as your true email behind the disposable address is instantly obvious.

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:51:04 +0000

It’s proven to be pretty reliable — I’ve been using this for several years now, and it seems like no-one is doing dash-trimming from emails to get “better” email addresses.

I agree with you, though — humans could probably intuit what your “real” email address is just by looking at the string. The point is, you’re not dealing with humans. You’re dealing with computers.

By: google filtering is lame

google filtering is lame — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:20:00 +0000

uhh that’s not disposable: it in NO way whatsoever protects the underlying address from mining/acquisition

yahoo, however, is the only large free email provider to offer free DEA: AddressGuard

By: Alternatives to plus-addressing?

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By: x3ja

x3ja — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:17:23 +0000

Great post.

Might be worth creating another filter to delete everything else that comes in… I get quite a few spam to random_username_guess@mydomain.com … not that you’re going to run out of Gmail storage anytime though.

By: Steven Schoch

Steven Schoch — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:05:50 +0000

Genius! I found this page from your posting in the Google Postini services help forum on 08/29/09.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:46:30 +0000

Excellent idea and guide – great workaround for many sites not accepting “plus addressing”

It might be a good idea to enable the “Never send to SPAM” setting when creating each filter in the router account – that way spam filtering (hopefully) will be done in the end users Gmail account, and won’t sit in the Router SPAM folder.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:31:04 +0000

Matthew … I followed the link in your 10/29/09 post on lifehacker. This solution for multiple addresses is BRILLIANT! Thanks very much.

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