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?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Dozens, but they all converge into 2 mailboxes. It’s nice to keep things separate, but it does get confusing sometimes. If I didn’t have a password manager to remember my logins, it would be untenable.

    For stuff I’m going to use long terms i use my lifetime university email address which forwards to me main fastmail address. I have several fastmail addresses for dev stuff, bacon (not quite spam), one for patreon and kickstarter, and so on. Those all go to one mailbox.

    My old gmail account is just for spam, google’s account spam, and (I only recently noticed) github. I check that mailbox like 3 times a year.

    Also all my domains have at least an info address that forwards to my dev fastmail address, and we have a household group address that forwards to my fastmail as well.