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Hi @ygoe! As someone who also uses catch-all email addresses, I would love for this to be possible. However, Gravatar's longstanding avatar API makes this impossible as-is. Since we get the hash of the entire email address, we wouldn't be able to parse out what the domain is from the hash. We would have to modify the API to have services integrating with us to also send us a hash of just the email domain in addition to the hash of the email address. |
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I'm using a separate subdomain with a catchall e-mail address for all my service accounts. This allows me to help verify message authenticity, trace back leaked addresses and block single addresses, and escape profiling to some extent. All with zero setup on the mailbox side. It works really well, except that Gravatar won't help me here. Some services rely on Gravatar and can't store profile images themselves. So if I understood it right, I'd need to create an account and add all required e-mail aliases to it. Which can be many and that's a lot of unnecessary work, counteracting the whole catchall idea.
So I'm suggesting a way to register an entire domain and return the same image for all addresses under that domain. For example, the registration could be for
*@services.example.com
and then all addresses likegoogle@services.example.com
orgithub@services.example.com
would be recognised as if I'd have added them manually.I cannot currently suggest a valid verification method for this. Maybe it could be on the DNS level, or you send the verification message to an undisclosed random (different each time) address under that domain and expect it to be received without prior knowledge.
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