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Dave Kreskowiak7-Jul-22 5:34
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Fletcher Johnson 20228-Jul-22 5:36
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Your concern is about giving out an email that can somehow be abused. Temp email IDs are good for some things but not all (as in this case.)

One option you have is to purchase a domain - let's call it myfree.com. Now set up a "catchall" account - so any email sent to an email that ends with @myfree.com is received by that account.

When you sign up at any site, use the site name as the recipient - so CodeProject@myfree.com. Or StackOverflow@myfree.com, etc. This has multiple benefits:
1) If a site makes your email available to others (intentionally or otherwise) - you can just block emails sent to that address.
2) If someone hacks the site and gets your email - see #1
3) You can always remember the email ID you used for a site.
4) Unless someone knows that you have a catchall account, no one will associate one email ID with another - especially if you don't set up a web site to go with it (or set up a fully bogus one to further confuse.)
5) You can especially use this for financial or similar sites. Then you know if you get an email sent to anything other than Chase@myfree.com it is definitely NOT from Chase bank.

So this provides you with the benefits of the temp emails you like with the obscurity you desire (and some additional benefits too.)

Just a thought.....
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