[66d8kk]

Long time fastmail user. Has anyone here managed to automate the creation of aliases? I create a random alias address for every service I sign up to and those steps of creating that alias add a little bit of tediousness.

[TarpitCarnivore]

You can use a wildcard for this: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html

I used to manually create them, then I learned of this and it's been a time saver.

[jolmg]

This is no good when you want to use the fastmail domain for the aliases. Ever since the twitter @N theft[1], I've learned to never use a custom domain email when signing up for anything. It just increases your attack surface. I prefer to leave it to fastmail to protect their own domain from hijacking.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/picki...

[smartt]

If you only want to receive mail at aliases it's easy: just setup an email catch-all on your domain ;-) To send is another matter; and unfortunately, I haven't found a way to easily do this with fastmail.

[nmjenkins]

Just create a wildcard identity to match (*@yourdomain.com) – when you select this in compose, you will be able to edit the address.

[moltar]

You can use the plus system.

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[jolmg]

Tried that, once. I wish they had a simple web api for this.