HACKER Q&A
📣 Normal_gaussian

Can you recommend a personal email provider with regex aliases?


Hi HN, my email provider pulled a fast one on me over the weekend - overhauling their UI and dropping their regex alias functionality without warning. Not what you want from a paid service.

I very successfully operate a ..@ schema for personal email, using regex aliases to manage "users", and blacklists to eliminate spam. The largest draw of this schema is detecting when companies are breached / leak my data (4 times in 6 years), and when some company misuses information I gave them for something else (countless times).

I also use it to manage alerts and priorities for a handful of custom systems to special mailboxes.

Not every email provider can support such a schema, and until today I was very happy with mine - charging only for a ceiling on daily sends and total mailbox size with unlimited mailboxes.

I don't want to go back to managing my own email (though if I have to I will) - do you guys have any recommendations?


  👤 troydavis Accepted Answer ✓
FastMail supports regex matching any header, including To/CC/BCC: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/regexprules.html

Multiple rules can be ANDed or ORed as well, if you don’t want to make a single regex that’s more complex.

They use - and expose - Sieve: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve-howto.html


👤 tucaz
Doesn’t a simple catch all work for you?

👤 jfowl
uberspace.de

They use qmail and I did something rather similar for myself.