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?

  • @Num10ckEnglish
    14•5 months ago

    any notable surprises you care to shame?

    • @[email protected]
      16•5 months ago

      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.

    • Prison Mike
      9•5 months ago

      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.

    • originalucifer
      6•5 months ago

      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

      • @residentmarchantEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        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.

        • originalucifer
          3•5 months ago

          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)

          • Prison Mike
            2•5 months ago

            I don’t do the + thing either, I just use a password generator to generate the prefix before @

    • @Lemming421English
      5•5 months ago

      Kickstarter are the ones for me - I get spam unrelated to any projects I’ve backed, so somehow they got hold of that address…