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?

  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
    12·
    4 months ago

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

    I split mails domains at the identity level, and addresses (under my custom domains, for proton I use their simplelogin integration) are split between services, even though I use my main one in most places still.

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Work, gmail with a regrettable name i picked in my teens and can’t be bothered to migrate away from. Other gmail that I only have on my phone. Work mail, personal mai with firstname@uniquesurname

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 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.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 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.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    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 😤

    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      How do you like it? I was thinking of going that route, especially with their Easy Switch tool.

      • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        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.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    4·
    4 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.