I’ve recently been working to minimize my email clutter, my dependance on certain email providers, and to consolidate services under certain accounts.
I’m down to the following uses:
Apple ID, mydomain-billing/subscriptions, mydomain-official/legal, anon, friends/family, business domain.
I also have a handful of aliases and an account just for newsletters and my RSS app.
I’m curious if others have several email addresses for similar uses or if you use your email client to categorize incoming messages for you. For people who only have one email address, how do you manage this?
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I only have one email address from ProtonMail but I make extensive use of their “Additional Addresses” feature and I use ProtonPass email aliases. There are only a few sites which know my real email address (around 15 I think).
Edit: technically I also have a Gmail address but I’m trying to get rid of that since it has my deadname in it.
Three:
- Professional: [email protected]
- Register for bullshit e-mail: [email protected]
- The 16 year old me e-mail with a 69 in it that i still inexplicably use occassionally.
…nice.
3 real adresses: personal, professional, school assigned. Countless aliasses
One real (actively used) email address on Proton Mail, 300 aliases on SimpleLogin and addy.io
One per site.
I have a wildcard rule set up to catch things sent to addresses on my domain that I don’t have explicitly configured… so technically, I have infinite email addresses.
Mostly six: family and friends, romantic relationships, professional, online identity, signing to Google services*, signing to other services.
I say “mostly” because I went through dozens of addresses, already abandoned. And the “signing to other services” e-mail has disposable addresses, that I use fairly often.
*I use this as a way to limit what Alphabet knows about me, given that it’s the biggest data vulture that I can’t get rid of.
I use about 200 junkmail addresses when I am testing online services with registration.
- One private
- One professional-private (which is an alias to my private one)
- One work email
I had 2 main ones, but they also got emails from one of my old accounts, for technically 3. But I just moved to Proton mail, so now I’m trying to stick with one + aliases. I’m hoping to keep it this way 😤
How do you like it? I was thinking of going that route, especially with their Easy Switch tool.
I actually really like it! It’s much more organized and I don’t feel overwhelmed having to look through and remember different accounts. And the alias feature has been amazing. Much simpler than making a temp email address. Setting it up wasn’t bad and they walk you through forwarding and all that stuff. I had 2-3 Gmail accounts before the switch and I honestly won’t go back, even if Proton vanished tomorrow.
Two.
One “official” with my name attached to it and one “trash” for places I don’t want to give any real data to.
I ignore a whole lot of shit.
1 email address, but I may need more at some point
Right now, a bit over 410 email addresses. Almost all of them are my simplelogin aliases. That leaves the protonmail addresses and the one gmail I created but never used because I use only if it’s a form or something I can only fill out once the owner forgets to open it up to everybody that doesn’t have a google account.
10 that I know of.
Genghis Khan.
Three personal, one work, two throwaways
