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Is your per-company addresses a derivation of your main email address?

If so, this is called “email tumbling” and services exist to strip the “per-company” part to expose your main email.



I can't speak for OP but I too use per-company or per-service emails, and no they have zero connection to my main email (not even the domain actually, domains are cheap so I have multiple ones for different purposes). Since I started doing so a very long time ago I did choose a standard scheme for it (making use of the company's domain), so it would certainly be possible to recognize it's a per-company domain given human attention or (more likely) AI. Ideally the email specifically would not be something I'd see but just a pointer that would be randomly/plausibly auto-generated, and then my email server (or client) could transparently disambiguate it via a db on my side to what the service was. Then it'd be undetectable. Unfortunately while it's clear enough how all the pieces of that could come together I don't know of any existing solution and haven't had time to try to hack on it myself. So far it hasn't given me any problems however.


There was a while where I had a complex lookup system Apple got "strawberry.cake@example.com", and posting to mailing lists were sent from "steve@12.2025.example.com" - which would lose MX records after a month.

But in the end I settled on facebook@example.com, instagram@example.com, and similar obvious names.




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