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?

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • norimee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Two.

    One “official” with my name attached to it and one “trash” for places I don’t want to give any real data to.

  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
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    5 months ago

    I have multiple domains and backup addresses on ProtonMail, so technically I have infinite addresses :P

    • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Dozens, 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.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    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.