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> email Aside from using Gmail, which has quite good spam filtering, my solution to email spam is siloing: using a separate email account for different categor
by Forricide 4y ago
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Aside from using Gmail, which has quite good spam filtering, my solution to email spam is siloing: using a separate email account for different categories of account sign-ups, etc. I just checked my 'good' email's spam folder, and there's nothing there - I get maybe one spam email every few months. (In order to reduce friction, I have autoforwarding from other emails, which doesn't resend spam with gmail - but there are other solutions which would presumably work for any email provider).
The only downside is, with paid email accounts, this could be monetarily problematic - which I don't really see a solution for, unfortunately. But, it's definitely way easier to filter email spam than physical/phone spam.
- noasaservice 4y agoEven with siloing and owning your own domain... It doesnt stop the possibility that a legitimate other person with your contact details does the "share address book" with some shitty app. Its not you who has to fail - its ANYBODY in your contact network.
- beckingz 4y agoFastmail allows you to crate unlimited email aliases that forward to your main domain. I'm a happy customer.
- Fwirt 4y agoThere are also free services that do this, like ImprovMX.
- site-packages1 4y agoFastmail is amazing. I like it so much I started paying for the three years in advance plan.
- ghaff 4y agoI used to use separate emails for orders, newsletters, etc. But what I found was that the separate email effectively became a dev/null. Gmail does a good enough job of filtering and tagging that I get a mostly clean primary inbox without effectively trashing everything else that I might want to look at once in a while, e.g. reservation confirmations.