|
Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous Share your opinion of the email service you're using. Post general email questions and discussions that don't fit elsewhere. |
|
Thread Tools |
20 Apr 2024, 08:04 AM | #1 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Macao
Posts: 2,161
Representative of:
tls-mail.com |
alias is useful, but sometimes I hate it
I had an alias user@fantasymail.de, which was used to sign up Namesilo registrar.
And then I deleted that alais. One day I logined into namesilo it required me to input the auth code from email, surely I couldn't input it. So I took many time to communicate with them to obtain the access again. The another case is an alias from @gmx.fr, and I deleted that alias. So I lost access to an important (20 years history) yahoo account, b/c it was used as yahoo recovery email. As you see, alias sometimes sucks. |
20 Apr 2024, 08:22 AM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Holon, Israel.
Posts: 4,857
|
But these are not aliases. Each one is a separate email account at a different provider.
Anyway, there's no difference between deleting an alias you used to register to an important service or deleting an email account you used to register. People that use only one email address and change it, have to change their email address with each important service they use, or risk losing that service. |
20 Apr 2024, 09:39 AM | #3 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Macao
Posts: 2,161
Representative of:
tls-mail.com |
both fantasymail.de and gmx.fr are aliases provided by GMX.
|
20 Apr 2024, 11:45 AM | #4 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2023
Posts: 25
|
Aliases are useful. Why did you delete them?
|
20 Apr 2024, 10:28 PM | #5 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,749
|
I think for this reason one should never use most aliases for recovery email addresses for anything important. I use a bunch of aliases for things that are less important: forums, newsletters, ordering things. However, when signing up for a service I would use either a main email address or a significant alias I know I will maintain forever. I'm beginning to think that most of us here on EMD, including me, use way too many email addresses and aliases. I know lost of people who have one email address, and they seem to do just fine.
|
21 Apr 2024, 02:45 AM | #6 |
Intergalactic Postmaster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Irving, Texas
Posts: 8,929
|
I use subdomain addresses at Fastmail aliases (both at my personal domain and Fastmail domains) for most signups. This means that I only need to keep active a few main aliases and then can create the subdomain addresses “on the fly”. Some services don’t allow subdomain addresses but do allow plus+addressing. Here is the Fastmail support page:
Fastmail subdomain and plus addressing help Here is how this works:
|