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Another option would be to use a mail provider that lets you point your own domain to it and create aliases. Fastmail and protonmail come to mind. Create a unique alias for anything you sign up for. You will then know if that company sold or mishandled your email address. If that happens, simply delete the alias for that company.

[Edit] To the_pwner224's point, you can also create a wildcard and send everything to a catch-all mailbox and/or write rules for it so you can tell a business "their-business-name@yourdomain.tld".

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I use Fastmail with my own domain name and wildcard addresses. So an email sent to anything@me.com will come to my inbox. While I do have a default address of me@me.com, I can change it to anything@me.com when writing a message in Thunderbird or using their webmail.

Here are some rules I already have made: https://imgur.com/a/L90sQJD I generate incrementing numbered emails to continue using Glassdoor after they block you for not giving info, thus the glob pattern.

For job seeking, I give employers the email 'job@me.com.' I suppose it does sound a bit weird, but if anyone gets spammy, I can add a rule to delete any messages with to=job@me.com and subject contains company name, without globally blocking any messages with company name in the subject.

FM specifically is based in Australia which you may have issues with, but I've given up trying to maintain privacy vs. big gov - they can see your email regardless of what you use, except maybe ProtonMail.

I do this on FastMail. All of my accounts are [site name]@[mydomain], so when I get spam on an address, I can easily set up a rule that sends all messages to that address to junk.

I also have other custom rules:

filter@[mydomain] goes to a special folder that isn't the inbox, for services whose messages I want to be able to access occasionally, but not most of the time.

spam@[mydomain] goes straight to spam.

I just went through my spam folder and found a bunch of spam (automatically filtered) to my "real" email address. That was surprising until I remembered that my email address is published on my website. I suppose my efforts were somewhat in vain.

I run a script that moves any email to to the trash that does not come from a list of approved domains. I have toyed with the idea of setting up a catch all domain to do the same as you, but keep finding excuses not to proceed. How much time to you spend on administration for your solution?

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