What's the point of making so much aliases?

Makes sense, thanks.

I have a personal one, for general day-to-day things, this is generally as secure as I can make it with a good password, two-factor auth etc. A "professional one", which security isn't as important as it's just for job searching, etc. A private one, which really is just a store of information for myself, I don't email it and to other people from it, just store things in it. This is another secure one.

Definitely not enough, that's for sure.

Mine's probably not the recommended way, but I use my main Google account everywhere and use Live whenever I want to make another account on a service, for example, creating another Steam account. But for answering this post, here's a list of my email addresses:

• Google, two emails (standard and G Suite)
• Microsoft, also two (Live and Outlook)
• Yahoo, one email
• iCloud, one
• ProtonMail, one

And there are forgotten ones where I have no idea why I signed up in the first place:

• Tutanota
• The world's longest alphabetical email address
• Yahoo, but using Rocketmail domain, which I kinda forgot
• ...and possibly more

<service_name>@defman.me. It forwards everything to my private Gmail account.

One, but I use the built-in aliasing.

GMail for instance you can have an email like myname@gmail.com and when you sign up on a site you can do myname+nameofwebsite@gmail.com

Emails they send you will still go to myname@gmail.com and you can use the +nameofwebsite part to see who it was who maybe sold your email or had a breach. Can also use it for rules and labelling things.

SOME terrible devs out there don't allow + in email addresses even though it is wholly valid to have that character. Lots of devs screw up email name validation. Don't be like those devs if you ever have to validate emails.

GMail also allows for any number of dots in your name. So you can also use my.name@gmail.com or m.y.n.a.m.e@gmail.com if you want. I do this sometimes to re-sign up for trials if the service doesn't allow for the + trick mentioned above.

I use one and see no reason to have multiple email addresses.

One for work, one for personal use. One for gmail because while my personal one used to be a Google Apps account, that had to change so I'm now just redirecting it to a generic gmail address.

For anything else I use services like guerillamail to create throwaway addresses.

I also have the domain notareal.email and use addresses like norepy@ or throwaway@ on that domain when talking to people like recruitment agents, because I am clearly the funniest man alive.

Only 2: personal and work.

Once in a blue moon, I will create an email alias which forwards to my personal account. For example, when I am trying to find out more information about a product and the only facility the site provides is a request form. Which almost certainly adds me to a spam list. Then when I'm done with the alias, I delete it. Spammers deserve bounces.

I used to have an account in almost every email provider (Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, Apple) but I felt the need to have everything in one place. Five or six years ago I started to approach emails like Anthony, with two exceptions:

• I have an email account for college, because I have to;
• I have a Gmail account for trials, using aliasing in my favor; that way I don't need to create fake throwaway addresses.

For services that I really do not care (and don't do email verification), I make up something along the lines of no@no.nope.

2

Personal gmail and work.

I use the myemail+tag@gmail trick to filter most things

I should make a purely junk email address for things like rewards cards and such

I have 3 on permanent sites and another 2 that are volatile addresses, so naturally either don't check some very often or could spend an entire day just reading emails. Worth mentioning that in one outlook account I have 4 different alias with their respective 'inboxes'.

I have 4, but I'm only using 2 of them:

• my private one @protonmail
• one for work
• one at my internet provider (no choice)
• my "dirty" one @gmail

4, and then a catch-all for my domain, to see what un-important sites I use that leak/sell my info.

I managed to get down to 2(ish) email addresses;

• @outlook.com is my primary. I have an alias on this account for sign-up's and stuff I probably won't read. It's filtered and often end's up in Trash rather than Archive
• @mywork.com is my work account. I've also made a big attempt to not sync this account with any of my devices apart from my office workstation, it's harder than it sounds!

Personal: An outlook.com email that I've used for many years. I use this to sign up for most online personal accounts.

Professional personal: My own domain email hosted through ProtonMail. I use this for most professional correspondence with employers and other developers.

Personal Gmail: Used for Google services mostly.

Professional Personal Gmail: Before I had my own domains, I used this one for professional personal things. It's still used for a few Google services.

Old university account: A .edu that I now have forwarding to the personal Gmail.

There are a few other inexplicable ones I don't use but still have access to: A Yahoo email, a few other outlook.com emails, etc.

Private x2
Spam/useless x100000000
School x1

Personal address: I've had it since 1997. That said, I've got a bajillion aliases that all point to the one mailbox: advantage of hosting your own email ...and why I can never (cost-effectively) move my personal mail to gApps (et. al.). Only give my unaliased personal address to family and friends.

Work address: Changes with job, obviously. When signing up for work-related web-sites, still use personal aliases so my work address doesn't get spammed (and set up auto-forwarding rules to my work account and auto-foldering rules on my work account for those auto-forwarded emails).

"Backup" address: usually gmail - where I send things when the sender's email system is poorly set up (the spam controls on my personal address are pretty freaking aggressive ...necessary when your email address is old enough to drink).

11, but 5 of those are client addresses, and as the blah+myname@google, is circumvented very easily, and all spammers know the trick, I have a throwaway address (spam magnet that one). So no, 6 isn't a lot.

6, gmail and gSuite: one that’s personal, two I just dump stuff in I rarely look at that I’ve had for the past 9 years, two for my blogs, one for “business”. A bunch of aliases for my gSuite accounts.

Ever so often I think about creating a "personal" email account and only providing that to family and friends, but I can't remember the last time of of them sent me an email. It's all IM's these days.

I kinda like the idea of creating a "dev" account separate from my "personal" account. I did do that for my Digital Ocean account - then forgot I did it and deleted the email account from the server.

Of course, I have an email account from my employer, used for work related messaging only.

• Work-issued email address: Purpose/reason for existence is likely self-explanatory.
• Work-oriented , "self-issued" email address (gmail): for when I need to open a conversation with a vendor but don't want my work email address to get spammed but w/don't have time to gen-up a throw-away address. This is used for things like conventions or where a given site won't allow me to add +VENDOR to my work email address.
• Personal email address (self-hosted on a VPS) ...with a few hundred alias addresses piled on: All the aliases allow for easy auto-sorting of incoming email as well as easily shutting off a problematic sender (or ID'ing that said sender has bad security/confidentiality practices ...as seen when a given per-sender alias starts being used by third-parties for spamming or scamming purposes)
• Personal-oriented email address (gmail): primarily for when a site's email system wants to think that my self-hosted personal email address isn't usable for some reason or another (or, my self-hosted personal email system thinks that a given site's too spammy and blackholes everything from them)

Actually I think it’s better to have a different email per service! I used to have a “private “ and a “dirty” one but 1. Ends up never checking email in the dirty one as it’s too dirty 🙃 2. Not easy to “promote” a dirty website: a website that I used a dirty email for turns out to be my favorite website so they deserve to use a more serious email address.

To have that infinity of email I think the key is email alias: a different alias for each website/service.

That's a hell of a thread. Love it <3
Between 10 and 20. Seriously.
Until i read your flow. I think i'm gonna reflect on it :)

IF You have multiple personal phone number, then you can create multiple Gmail accounts. Sometimes Google don't ask for phone number verification, It's totally up to Google.

But, If you don't have multiple personal phone number, then you can use temporary email, In this case you will get unlimited instant disposable email address for fixed amount of times.

I suggest you to, in sensitive case use Gmail and for other works you can use temp mail to use anywhere.