zip04 said:
An additional bonus is the shortened email address (@pm.me) since I'm a senior project manager now that I've retired from the military.
Very good observation.
With a more advanced plan, you can have multiple e-mail addresses. My Visionary plan lets me have up to 100 addresses.
For some purposes, I create a new e-mail address for a single recipient to use. For example, American Express has one such address in their files and my local bank has another.
If I get an e-mail purporting to be from American Express or from my bank, all I have to do is look at the e-mail address they sent it to.
For example, (not my real address), I could set up 02f.00a.e49.5ce.ad0.a@pm.me for an address. It goes into the bank's database so they never actually have to type it in. If I get an e-mail from my bank to my normal account, that is a strong indication of a phishing attempt.
runbox does even better. With any paid account there, you can have up to 100 distinct e-mail addresses on their domains. And if you use them to host your own domain's e-mail, you can apparently have any number of addresses on it. And they have a lot of domains spread out over a number of countries. For example, you could have zip04@runbox.no and zip04@runbox.il.
Also, Proton has a service called "simplelogin" in which you can create e-mail addresses on the fly in one of their simplelogin domains. You can also create a subdomain of one of the simplelogin domains and any e-mail to any address in that domain will be delivered to you.
For example, if not already taken, you can grab gigemags.8shield.net and then texags@gigemags.8shield.net, aggies@gigemags.8shield.net, zip04@gigemags.8shield.net, and 3.14159265@gigemags.8shield.net would go to you. That is nice for when you are filling out a card at a store and they want your e-mail address. Make one up then and there.
