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      I’ve actually blocked any incoming email without a valid email address (belonging to my domain) in the To: or CC: headers; it’s helped me cut spam significantly.

      Using a specific prefix I can generate a new email address for each website I visit. So when someone emails me, they’re forced to tell on themselves and/or the website they stole/bought my email address from.

      All this makes it easy to see who lied and sold my shit (data) after I explicitly said not to. And I figure if I really needed to be BCC’d on something, the sender can simply forward the email to me after they receive the rejection message.

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        Btw you can use an aliasing service like addy.io or simplelogin, that way you can disable the leaked alias on top of knowing who leaked it

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          I’ve tried them but they never really clicked for me. In case I need to block one I add it to a server-side Sieve filter.