103. Email's Best Friend: Aliases
Published on: Mar 27, 2026
Episode summary
Email has a lot of flaws. One of the biggest is that anybody can send you an email without your permission.
They don't have to know you - they just need to discover your email address - by any means.
Email aliases can't directly fix this flaw, but they can do a lot to help mitigate the problems it causes.
The idea of an email alias is simple.
It's simply an email address that will deliver email to you, but without exposing your real email address.
There are 6 benefits that email aliases, used correctly, can provide:
Privacy: Prevent your real email from being exposed in data breaches
Spam Control: Disable individual aliases to totally shut down spam.
Organization: For the control freaks among us (like me), aliases are a great tool.
Tracking: Never wonder again who sold your email address.
Account Protection: Prevent login credential reuse.
Phishing: Enables clear and reliable identification of phishing emails.
That all may sound too good to be true, but it's not. Stay with me, and I'll teach you how.
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