Long time back I used to use a spam email whenever I needed one. Then services started declining emails from those services, so I made a temp Gmail I used for everything. But I’m not comfortable with how much I use that.
Long time back I used to use a spam email whenever I needed one. Then services started declining emails from those services, so I made a temp Gmail I used for everything. But I’m not comfortable with how much I use that.
The absolute best way costs a small amount of money.
First get a hosting plan. DreamHost has the “Shared Unlimited” plan for $13/mo. (Cheaper the first year, and cheaper if you pay for 1yr. or 3yrs.).
Next get a domain name. I recommend NameCheap. This costs like $14/yr. Most (but not all) domains have free anonymized registration.
You can then either use the mailbox space on your hosting or create forwarders to something like FastMail or Proton. Just make a new [email protected] address each time you need one. Blackhole it if it gets too much spam.
The hosting provider is unnecessary.
You can point the domain to proton mail or whatever email service you like. Then you can configure a wildcard so that all email sent to any address at that domain can go to a central email.
Then you can filter it and use rules to move or delete automatically. Minimal setup required, and nothing to do to “create” a new email address.
Yeah, you can do it that way. I mentioned the hosting in the case that they’d like to use mailboxes created on the hosting account rather than FastMail/Proton/etc.
And if that’s too many steps, Fastmail already has the ability to create masked emails!