Also, do you use disposable emails? What for?

I have a lot of emails made with simple login and I use the same one only for three websites. Then I get all emails forwarded to the same email, and an email for personal use (family, work, friends…) also forwarded to that one. So something like this:

o  o  o     o  personal
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   |    /
   |  /
   o
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I use mailbox.org with my own domain and set up a catch-all so that all mails arrive in a single inbox. When I have to sign up somewhere I usually use their domain as the local part, e.g. example.org@mydomain.tld. That way I can easily identify who fucked up and can simply block all mails with that recipient.

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I have three domains with catchall. One personal, one thats not easily associated with me that is forwarded to my personal that I use for sites that don’t have to know who I am and one that is under a nick-name for FOSS stuff. The latter is only for special stuff and my own projects since I prefer to stay anonymous.

Plus I have a special webmaster box for all the sites I host. (They can be reached under different domains, but they all forward to an account@my personal domain)

Recently started using Anonaddy aliases + my old personal e-mail which it’s still used on more important sites and for personal emails. 😁

Oh, right, there is also outlook for school 🙄

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Protonmail for personal, danwin for blogging and Outlook (ew) for school.

I use fastmail with several different domains associated.

  • Personal email shared with friends and family
  • Professional email - not my work but the one associated with my Linkedin and such

I have a custom domain just for signing up to online services. For me, this domain is completely separate and I never use it for anything else. Like nachtigall, I use a naming scheme and a catch-all address. My naming scheme uses their domain plus a random bit like so, twitter.6cruzbms@mydomain.tld.

There are two main benefits to using such a scheme imo. First, it’s harder for data aggregators to collate and cross reference me across the web by using an email address. Second, it acts as a hacked canary and it’s easy to identify the source of suspicious or problematic emails.

The random characters are a pretty good idea to increase security too. Without that part it is easy to figure out what address I use for each service. With the random bits it adds another unknown factor that should make brute force attacks slightly harder. Gonna adopt that too, thanks for the idea!

I have an old gmail that I can’t quite get rid of yet, one company address for one of my jobs and one disroot that I use for everything else. I just added 3 accounts in Claws Mail and it gives a pretty good UX

i use gmail for spammy things that take up lots of space cuz it works with thunderbird. protonmail for important things (easy access w/o 2FA)

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