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Do you use different emails and how do you organize them? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ajr@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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
 \ | /    /
   |    /
   |  /
   o

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[–] BinaryWolf@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I use throwaways sometimes for services that forces account creation. Otherwise I use the same email everywhere and make sure to not receive spam junk.

While we're at it, I got a little tip for you:

You can put + after your username and whatever after. So if your email is example@mail.com You can put example+macrohard@mail.com

and the email will appear in your regular account. This way you'll know macrohard has been doing shady things with your mail when you receive spam from this address.

It also allows you to creat multiples accounts with one mail account if the service don't prevent the trick.