Yeah that's right. For a whopping one time purchase of 250$, you get a lifetime license for a @linux.com domain as an email alias/forwarding only. You cannot send emails from this. You can contact support to check if the alias you want is available too.

Imagine this on your CV. It is the ultimate flex.

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Because, properly set up, you can also send mail from that address (or at least that's how it appears to recipients).

How would you go about doing this? Getting the @linux.com domain to forward incoming email from a specific address somehow?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The from field in an email is something that the sender sets, and they don't have to set it to anything in particular. Unless your email client stops you (which is pretty common these days) you can just enter a made up address, another address that you'd rather receive replies through, or someone else's address. It's one of the reasons why phishing emails work - there's nothing stopping a scammer impersonating anyone they want to.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    There's actually several things preventing you from doing this now. DKIM, SPF, and a couple others that I can't remember.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    There are situations they don't cover, e.g. if you choose a sender address from the same domain as the real address. Obviously, lots of email services check for that, but it's not universal - it was a great tool for pranks at university for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    The "From" part is configurable per specification, it's called identities. Good email clients will have config options for that.

    But there's an extra part that the server needs to provide so that Google doesn't think you're doing something "nefarious" (read: using email as it's intended to be used but not as Google wants it to be used).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Gmail is one of the most, if not the most, annoying recipients to avoid the spam category. My ISP lists their non-business IPs on Spamhaus PBL because they've monetised having a static IP and decided email servers aren't for residents. (But I've snoozed -- they haven't been the highest rated ISP for years and the new highest, Zen, is much better than EE)

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