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?

  • @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 @