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 have multiple domains and backup addresses on ProtonMail, so technically I have infinite addresses :P
same.
s/proton/tuta/
You forgot to disable case sensitivity
technically I have infinite addresses
Email addresses can’t be arbitrarily long, so technically you don’t have an infinite number. But you could easily use up as many addresses as there are atoms in the universe every Planck time until its heat death and it would still only amount to an infinitesimal fraction of the total.
This made me laugh. You must be a blast at parties!
:P
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.
Non-gender specific Bruh, what you mean try? Just do it!
Meaning I’m in the process of doing it and almost finished.
Right on!
i use a different address for almost every destination, all aliasing from a main domain. in this way i can track who sells my info.
any notable surprises you care to shame?
Kickstarter are the ones for me - I get spam unrelated to any projects I’ve backed, so somehow they got hold of that address…
Kickstarter does share it with the projects you back iirc, and those projects do occasionally sell that data to 3rd parties.
I do this same thing with unique email addresses recipients when I have to give out an email address. My “wall of shame” email sellers/hacked companies includes:
- eharmony.com
- parkmobile.com
- 000webhost.com
- honarable mention for eventbrite.com
honestly, nothing to really report. this could be confirmation bias as i tend to avoid the problem actors( the facebooks, the fly-by-night vendors), but I have yet to see any egregious address-sharing in the last several years.
i still get quite a bit if spam from places that used to broadcast email addresses on their sites like early versions of the SETI distributed processing project
I find the exact same thing. I always use an alias when signing up for some stupid parking app or new healthcare system that I can’t avoid and I’ve surprisingly never seen the aliases being re-used by anybody but them.
I was expecting at least a data breach, but it’s been clean for the past 10 yrs or so.
It’s possible data brokers are just good at stripping whatever is behind the “+” though.
im using a bucketed approach so i dont use the +… i add the vendor name into the email address so its always something like [email protected] for amazon (for example)
I don’t do the
+thing either, I just use a password generator to generate the prefix before
Not OP but Under Armor sells your shit instantly in my experience. I’ve got the same setup and just turn the address off after I get my order. I must have got forwarded 2-3 spam things a day before I killed it.
I do the same thing with email aliases and I’ve deactivated just two in the years I’ve been doing it.
One the comes to mind is Scentbird, they get hacked like every month because they’re on some shitty Wordpress server so they unintentionally leak your data all the time.
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.
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 use two actively but technically I have a gmail adress but only use it to log in to YouTube with it. If you sent me an email there I will probably never see it.
I counted 11 across 3 different providers.
1 in Aol mail
3 in Google Mail
7 in InstAddrDozens, but they all converge into 2 mailboxes. It’s nice to keep things separate, but it does get confusing sometimes. If I didn’t have a password manager to remember my logins, it would be untenable.
For stuff I’m going to use long terms i use my lifetime university email address which forwards to me main fastmail address. I have several fastmail addresses for dev stuff, bacon (not quite spam), one for patreon and kickstarter, and so on. Those all go to one mailbox.
My old gmail account is just for spam, google’s account spam, and (I only recently noticed) github. I check that mailbox like 3 times a year.
Also all my domains have at least an info address that forwards to my dev fastmail address, and we have a household group address that forwards to my fastmail as well.
Nice try FBI.
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 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.
Me too. I use [email protected] for almost everything. Not only I can have many mynames, I also can have very many theirnames.
Also makes it relatively easy to see who leaked your data.
I have one paid email address that’s my main that I purchased from an overseas provider, just to complicate spying and reduce perverse motivations to use my data to profit.
I have a secondary older email address, a professional work email address, and then a long tail of anti-spam aliases.
I made a bunch of burner Google accounts back when it was easy to do so so I have many addresses from there + a couple in protonmail. In total it should be 2 “serious” addresses, 1 for games and non-serious services, 2-3 for some specialized stuff and about 8(?) dummy accounts, some of which have connected accounts to social media which have been locked.
I have a “professional” email with my real name and one with my “online” name. They used to both be on gmail but now they are on Protonmail.
I also have some domain names I own which I can set up with Protonmail as the provider… Kinda tempted to move everything over to my domain so that I can switch providers if I need to without having to update things.
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