I've been reading upon improve security and privacy. I was wondering how many mail addresses you should have. Is it one per social media, one for everything finance, ... Next to this, are the mail addresses you use aliases or actual mail addresses and do you create them on outlook, proton or self host the mail server?
I have my main account adress wich is used only for log in, an a second one adress to use with SimpleLogin.
Then, SimpleLogin has something like 300 aliases.
Ideally I would have one for each service I sign up for but my proton subscription only allows for 10.
I use addy.io to create aliases for different things, and then set up filters in Thunderbird to mark them as they come in so, for example, if I make an account at xyz.com and then I get a bunch of unrelated spam marked as coming from xyz.com, then I know they've been selling my info.
I probably have about a dozen or so aliases currently, but they're pretty loosely organized.
I also use addy but create an alias for everything. Even my wife has one!
I probably will end up with tons eventually, I haven't been doing it for too long and I don't sign up for many things lol
I self host my email, and I have one mailbox, but countless addresses. Everything that needs an email address, has its dedicated one. Not because of security considerations (if someone would get into any of my aliases, I'd be fucked either way), but because I find it easier to filter and manage.
Like,if I get an email to
randomwebshop@, and it hasno relation to said place, I will know that they either sold my data, or were compromised. I can then route it to /dev/null, and then everyone who tries to spam that address will be gone from my inbox.It also makes it easier to tag mail, because I tag based on a property that I control. No reliance on sender, subject, list id or anything that the sender controls.
