So:

1. if you use one mail address for all job applications you get profiled.

2. If you use aliases, employers don't consider it professional and you get rejected.

Are there any other alternatives? How about personal domain + alias?

Do you use catch all?

• i run a Hetzner VM costing 8 euro / month
• Debian linux
• run Postfix
• run dovecot for POP and IMAP
• all config is in MariaDB so adding mailboxes , aliases or domains is just an entry in the DB

Gmail and outlook accepts my email just fine as long as you don't run newsletters over the server ...

if you are curious on the setup, feel free to ask

Has anyone tried mailfence? Did you like it?

I’ve recently become more concerned about privacy and have switched completely from Gmail to Proton Mail. I’ve also started using aliases, and I’m using DuckDuckGo Email Protection for this.

I’ve changed the email address on all my accounts(100+-) to a unique alias, except for Bitwarden, Ente Auth, PayPal and services where aliases aren’t allowed.

And I have a question: is it safe to use aliases for everything?

On which accounts do you use aliases?

If DDG Email Protection suddenly stops working, I’ll lose access to many accounts, such as Steam with my games, social media, online shops, and so on. I also use aliases when asked for an email address to recover 2FA, just in case, like on Telegram.

I 18(m) am soon be going to college and other things and i have made a huge and terrible mistake of using my old email with a VERY cringe address and affiliated with many bad apps and much bad digital footprint in various official forms and competetige exam forms and many other official things and im a dumbfuck who should have obviously used a new one which ive created now and now i want to change it and heard abt the new feature abt changing username but ig it hasnt reached my gmail plzz help me how do i change all of it

Used outlook for 15 years, then Microsoft decided to relocate my pst files to OneDrive, then outlook couldn't find them. Used a local service provider for last 5 years, but their upgrades provide worse offerings. Any suggestions to consolidate everything?

I'm de-Microsofting/de-Googling and rethinking my email setup after finding my old Outlook address in multiple data breaches. Drowning in phishing too.

What I have (all free): Proton Mail, Tuta, SimpleLogin, AnonAddy.

My use cases:

• Job applications (real name needed?)
• Government/institutional services (real identity, or can I use an alias here?)
• Everything else (real name irrelevant)

What I'm trying to figure out:

• How do you compartmentalize across these tools in practice?
• Proton vs Tuta as primary inbox?
• how do you organize aliases?
• What's your approach when an address gets found in a breach, how do you migrate cleanly?
• Any schemas that balance privacy with actually being usable day-to-day?

Free only, no paid plans. Thanks.

I’ve been stressing out over emails recently. I’m planning to use 2 Gmail accounts need storage labels? With thunderbird. Not very private Ik but will in a few years be able to go for proton.
**My plan is 1- my digital persona/email with my pseudonym. For gaming social media etc. pls lmk what else I need to label.**
**2- My personal email with almost my full name. In the future it’s for government, banking, work etc. Won’t sign up for any news letters to not expose both of them.**
**TLDR is having 2 emails ok?**

Hello everyone.

I've been considering changing over to Soverin ( https://soverin.com ), an email provider based in the Netherlands, European Union.

I need to use my custom domain, access my emails via IMAP, use email aliases, etc. They seem to check all these boxes.

However, firstly, I would like to know the opinions/reviews of people who actually use Soverin as their email provider. What do you think about it? Pros and cons? Is it usable enough as a daily driver? Should I make the jump?

Thank you very much in advance! :-)

My newly created proton email was disabled after 4 hours that I created it. I only received 2 emails there and haven't even tried sending an email then an error popped out saying that "blasting of emails". I just lost an important interview today because I initially opened that email for my job applications. does anyone knows what to do? i already submitted a ticket but no response im soooo stress

I recently moved over from Gmail to Proton, and ngl it was a hassle. But I'm hoping to hear good things about Proton. I've been thinking about Thunderbird, but if I have to pay for Proton I will.

I’m reposting this because Tuta didn’t want my post on their sub which I guess makes sense.

Sorry in advance if this post is a little ranty..

I am leaving Tuta because I am super disappointed with the service, I am/was a legend subscriber paying what I would consider quite a significant amount for an email service and Tuta is barely functional. I don't understand why but Tuta's app does not work on IPv4 connections, my ISP has never given out IPv6 IP's and probably never will and Tuta just simply doesn't work on it. I've tried my main network, my data, everything and it will work for about 2 minutes and then stop working. So many people post about the same problems on this sub and they always give the same one liner response and then if you say that that doesn't work either then they will never reply to you. Tuta need's to do better, if they want to be a true competitor, they should try getting the app to actually work before even attempting this. It upsets me talking this way about an alternative to other privacy oriented email providers as there is only a couple of those but it's genuinely embarrassing considering how long Tuta has been a thing. I would also like to mention the things that they post on social media, there is the same 5 things that just get cycled over and over just to farm some quick interaction points and thats it, most of it isn't actually constructive at all. One last thing is why do you guys keep mentioning Tuta Drive as an alternative in your degoogling guides and demicroslop guides but the thing isn't actually out yet, it makes no sense. Please do better Tuta.

So I've had a domain email all my life, so how can I change my google account from this domain email to a new email I made? It's just doing my head in because I don't know how to do it and I just want privacy from the administrator (my dad) being able to see all of my emails.

Most burner emails disappear before you’re done using them.
So I built something that doesn’t.

With the Permanent Email Vault, your burner doesn’t auto‑expire unless you want it to. It stays alive for 15 days free, and you can keep extending it with a single click every 40 days. No account. No signup. No link to your real identity.

Here’s what you get:

• 3 instant burner emails — ready the moment you land
• Vault storage — save the addresses you actually need
• Live inbox streaming — messages appear in real time
• Multi‑inbox dashboard — switch between burners effortlessly
• Zero signup, zero tracking

I originally built this for myself because I kept losing access to things — OTPs, receipts, support threads — whenever a temp inbox expired too fast.

Custom domains are coming soon, so you’ll be able to receive mail at your own domain through a private burner vault.

I’d genuinely love your honest take:

• Would you actually use a “permanent burner” like this?
• What would help you trust a burner email tool more?
• What’s missing that would make this your go‑to?

🔗 https://goburner.com

1. What is your opinion about gmx.com? Is it good for decent privacy?

2. How can I sign in if I'm not in US? Sgning in with VPN is not working 😕, at last signup step system shows error/ captcha page.

It offers 60GB storage with free plan. It's more than enough for me. As I'm going to use it only for important stuff.

hello

imm trying to improve my email security and have been looking to switch from gmail due to all the unnecessary ai being forcefully added

I've heard good things about proton so I'm looking to replace gmail with that.

I have a confusion regarding emails and recovery emails though: as per advice I've read online it's best to use an email which is not the same as your other ones as a recovery email (Eg if all my emails are yahoo then my recovery email should be something other than yahoo). in that case, if I'm changing my other email id's to proton, would it be unproductive if I made a gmail ID as the recovery email? I don't want to use yahoo but idk about google either since the point of me doing this is to move away from google.

also, is this the correct approach? to have one email id solely as a recovery email and not use it for anything else, and connect all my other emails to that one.

and I keep seeing people talk about aliases, which I have no idea about.

I'm sorry if these are very basic questions, but I'd appreciate if someone can explain everything

I have been thinking of switching email providers for a while (from gmail) and I think I finally decided to go with mailboxorg and a custom domain with an alias for every site I have access to. This seems to be most safe and foolproof way to go about it. However, admittedly, I have not that much knowledge about using or even creating a custom domain yet, hence I am rather unsure about it all.

So I have compiled a small list in hopes of someone helping me a bit with the whole process! Sorry for the absolute newbie questions, but I guess everyone has to have their starting point somewhere:

1.) If I want to buy a domain from e.g. 1984 hosting, is there something I have to keep in mind when choosing the right offer or options? All I want is a domain and JUST use it as custom domain for my email accounts. I really don't need it as an own website or the like.

2.) Are there problems for using a custom domain? I do mean it in all aspects, so sending and receiving mails with my custom domain (will my sent messages land in the spam folder of the recipient? Will I sometimes not receive emails myself? etc etc), using the custom domain to log into sites (Will some sites straight up block you from access or not accept that email, especially when using an alias?) and many more things. Are there problems and is there a good workaround / fix for them?

3.) How should I name my custom domain? This is less a troubleshooting question, but more of a creative input one because I do not know if I should follow a certain naming scheme to still appear professional and official.

These should be my main questions, but if you have more pieces of advice to give me along the way, I would be very glad to hear those as well.

Thank you very much for your attention!

Is there a free email provider that allows one custom domain with at least 5 to 10 email addresses on the custom domain. Not interested in catch-all.

Trying to move away from using my main Gmail for literally everything.

Mostly looking for:

good spam protection

aliases

privacy-focused providers

simple UI

maybe encrypted mail

Right now I’m testing Proton Mail and SimpleLogin.

After enough sketchy office crack downloads and random website signups, I realized I should probably separate my accounts better. Would love recommendations from people here. Thanx in advance