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How many different email addresses do you have and why?
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Christian Lutz
How many different email addresses do you have?
Why do you have them?
Do you use different emails for different web services?
How do you keep track of all your different accounts?
Probably 75+ at a guess.....
Got at least 15 active domains in gsuite plus a number of dormant ones without any emails, with around 5 aliases I use on each active domain.
Only regularly use around 10 or so, some domains I default to a personal address, some a generic, some I have but don't use myself.
Track my emails easily since a single login and inbox with gsuite.
Track my external accounts across all domains with lastpass.
Basically infinite emails but only two inboxes I check regularly - I have wildcards set up at a couple domains that all feed into the same inbox and a personal gmail. (I also have some old accounts like one at hotmail, but I don't check them regularly.)
80% of the time, I give out my "official/main" email but I keep the wildcards so I can create emails on-demand for services I don't trust as much (like wifi hotspots with a signup wall) so I can later blackhole their emails if they spam me.
I often do, yes, for the reason listed above.
1password is where I track everything.
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