The form wants one letter
Home address
Codes and signups you will not reopen. Let the address expire.
Exposure
Does a signup leak your inbox?
The ad itself is the clue. Whichever address received it is the signup that gave the address away.
How a daily inbox gets out
You typed it into a signup once. That site can write again, and it can hand the address on. The role alerts, discounts, and unknown companies that follow did not appear from nowhere. They walked back along the address you gave away.
Four ordinary exits
- 01
Hiring sites
Suggestions keep coming for months. Give the season its own alias, and pause it when the search ends.
- 02
Shops
Order mail has to reach you. Promotions should not sit beside the bank and your family. Use an alias.
- 03
Trials and newsletters
One look, one download. Use the three-hour address. After it expires, further mail cannot land.
- 04
Forums that reset passwords
Those accounts outlive three hours. A dead address locks you out. Use an alias.
After it is already exposed
Stop typing the daily inbox into new forms. Pause the alias that is collecting the noise, once you are sure nothing important is still due. New mail is dropped, so you can see which address the noise belonged to. Letters already archived stay for their thirty days.
Hand over less next time
The relationship continues
One alias per site
Later you can tell which signup carried the address out.
Use the home address for one message. Open a forwarder when the sender will write again.