The Perfect Email Address

Okay.  You must REALLY want to know what the perfect email address is.

Let's recap.

The left side of the "@" is typically identified as the mailbox.  What this means is that within the email server where your domain name is located contains mailboxes.  That is correct.  This is where your actual email is delivered to.

So most of the time either you or your friends share this mailbox name with others along with the domain name where you are located.

So think about this.  Would you leave a key outside your house for ANYONE to use to say drop a package off to you when you were not at home?  No, you would not do that.

But we have done that with our email addresses.

So how do we create an email address that will remain completely private?

Remember in a previous article that my domain name is buddyshearer.com?  Well guess what?  My friends do not email me at buddy@ my domain name.  Nor do they use bshearer@ my domain name.  Are you my friend?  Not yet anyway.  See how secret it is.  My friends know.

No.  I am not pulling your leg please read on there is a left side.

My friends know exactly where I live.  As in the house number and street address.  That is my secret.

123-mystreet @ buddyshearer.com

You can change your "123-mystreet" to anything that is more personal.

We are not done yet so keep reading.

Here is what I have done.

1. I purchased my domain name.  Yes this is an expense and you will also need a hosting account.
   
2. I setup my catch-all configuration.
   Dotster's definition is this "You have a way to set up your Mail service to deal with mail that comes for users who do not exist on your domain(s). There are two available ways of handling such mail: to bounce a letter with a certain message or to redirect (catch) all such mail to a specified e-mail address."
   
   If someone should send me an email they will have to know my secret left side.  If they try guessing then it will go to my catch-all configuration.  I can still get it but it is easier to keep out of my OutLook or OutLook Express.
   
3. Once my catch-all is configured I then setup my mailboxes.  Yes mailboxes.  This is where it gets to be fun.  My friends know that I will change the left side of my domain name from time to time but  they also know a phrase to add to the subject line.
   
4. Here is what I do when I am asked for an email address.  Let's say I go over to the website of the Absolute Best Authoritative person on the net for Google's AdSense.  And let's say the site wants an email address so they can add me to their list.  No problem.
   
   If it is a site that I want to continue to receive their emails or sales pitches then I will build my email address to be AdSensePro @ buddyshearer.com
   
   I then set up rules in my OutLook Express to grab that email when it comes in and it gets filed into my AdSense Email folder.

To date.  No Spam.  No Email viruses.  And no trouble.

Does this make sense?  I hope so.  If you are a committed Net citizen then you have to think outside of the box.  I hope this process is far enough outside the box.

If you want more details then send me an email to i-want-more-details and I believe you know the rest of my address.  ;)