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> I'm curious why you even started coding? All it takes is an email host where you have a catch-all and a sieve filter on a couple of lines.

Well my original idea was to have a unique email address for each person. So I needed a way to generate one on the fly. But now that you mention it, a catch all would have worked - I could generate the email even after giving the person his/her unique address.

Still, there would be some burden to actually create those custom email addresses every time I meet someone new.

The other side of the coding would be to ensure that when I email someone, the From/Reply-To addresses are the ones for that person. But what if I need to email 2 different people?

For me, having a single email address for family/friends wouldn't work - it always gets leaked somehow.



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