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> I do the same, except I don't use a randomly generated address. Rather, I use something that identifies who it is. e.g., if I had a relationship with Tesla, the email address would be 'tesla@myemaildomain'. > I almost use the methodology except I add ramdom characters at the end. Tesla.ahcdk@domain.com

Reasoning is that its most likely if you have tesla@ you will have facebook@ tesco@. When adding characters you can filter on the . + 4 characters

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>Reasoning is that its most likely if you have tesla@ you will have facebook@ tesco@. When adding characters you can filter on the . + 4 characters

I get you, and it's a good idea if you're using someone else's domain (e.g., gmail.com, protonmail.com, etc.) to make sure you have a unique email address.

Since I own -- and host my own domain for my emails (as does the OP, IIRC), that's not necessary, as the domain name itself makes the email address unique -- since I'm the only one who uses it. As such, I can (and do) just filter on 'facebook', 'tesla' and 'tesco' directly.

I heard facebook doesn't allow emails with "facebook" in them. Alternatively you can give facebook.te@ address to tesla and tesla.fb@ address to facebook, nobody will figure it out :)

>I heard facebook doesn't allow emails with "facebook" in them.

Where, exactly, did you hear that?. I can confirm that's not the case.

My FB email address is a bare 'facebook@myemaildoman' and hasn't been a problem. Ever.

That said, I set that as my FB email address more than a decade ago, so I guess things may have changed since then.

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