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Two. One main catchall, one backup / burner. Both on Proton Mail.
Basically infinite, as I also have the catchall account of my domain.
I create unique email addresses for every organisation and service I deal with, including an obfuscated date, so when an address is compromised I can nuke it with a hard rejection, and regenerate as needed. This all feeds into a catchall mailbox, with server-side sieve rules to filter the stuff I actually care about.
I besides some account specific and burnt addresses, I don’t actively track of any of the addresses I’ve created, it would be in the hundreds by now.
One benefit of this crazy setup is there’s one less common identifier to match across disparate data stores.
Finally, no one should do any of The above. From experience I consider it pathological.
i started to create separate email aliases for every newsletter, account and contact like >10years ago. i still have some few aliases that i shared with friends so these are spread more wide. some of these aliases turned out to be useful as in the platform i created it for lost my data, i got some phishing mail and told the platform admins about their data loss, i then just stopped spam by changing that one single email alias. that happened i think four times.
this year i wanted to get rid of old domains and had to go through all of the aliases there, which turned out to be >400, that was a lot of work, but my setup turned out to be quite a good documentation about what accounts i've set up during that period. some accounts were for platforms that do not exist any more, many for platforms that changed owner (mostly without notice) while some accounts turned out to be stuck like i cannot even delete them, because if i try, that platform freezes the account for "weird looking actions" looks like they just do not want to follow the laws.
overall i think of maybe improving usability by platforms, (free)email providers and also newsletter senders, then creating some specs and try writing RFC style definitions and write a proof-of-concept to make "handshake" and email addresschanges possible and easy for endusers in large scale while achieving the same level of filterless spam protection that i have now.
when i find the time to do it.
3 mailboxes
- Work
- Personal (general use)
- Personal (Important personal stuff)
That last email is for things I don’t want to risk reading in public. It’s the one I give to my doctor, financial advisor, insurance, tax authority, etc.
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
3 real adresses: personal, professional, school assigned. Countless aliasses
I use simplelogin but mostly I still use an email that provides aliases. I break things up into five or six main groups. Content like games and streaming, shopping, social media, and a few others. This works as a general grouping for bookmarks, passwords, note taking, and emails.
I felt using a simplelogin alias for every site was out of control. For me personally I just need it a bit simpler.
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.
I ignore a whole lot of shit.
1 email address, but I may need more at some point
too many
Three personal, one work, two throwaways
$dayjob gave me an email, but they are the only ones that use it. My primary is a GMail, though I really should switch to a less crappy provider. I run my own mail server, all my GMail is just forwarded there, but it's not my primary because too many people were having problems sending or receiving mail though there.
So, 3 or less in practice.
I also have a half-dozen variant usernames at GMail and can trivially create as many as I like on my own mail server. So, unbounded in theory.
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.
- One private
- One professional-private (which is an alias to my private one)
- One work email
I use about 200 junkmail addresses when I am testing online services with registration.
10 that I know of.
Genghis Khan.
Two. One address is professionaly I use it only at work on my work computer.
Another private address at mailbox.org, where I can temporarily (or permanently) make up to 25 "sub-addresses" that get routed to my main address.
I have 3 in use with the suffix [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
Usually I just google for any 10 minute mail service and use those addresses.
About 160
Three. One from work, one personal, one throwaway.
One per site.
You mean temp mail?
What do you mean?
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 "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.
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.
Nice try FBI.
I daily use 4, plus some temporary