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Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox (feddit.nl)
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I've got two domain names set up for work and personal email, but I'm absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000. Most are those annoying notifications like "Your security code is xxx," "Your parcel has shipped," and requests to rate my experience.

Right now, I've been trying out Inbox Zero with an old Gmail account. It's cool, but honestly feels a bit overkill and only works with Gmail and Outlook. I switched to my own domains to get away from Google in the first place!

So, I’m on the hunt for an email provider that has solid SPAM filters and can create a priority inbox without all the pesky notification clutter. Bonus points if it supports custom domains.

Any suggestions?

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 102 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Regardless of which e-mail service you end up using, I find that an incredible simple rule to filter all e-mail with the word "unsubscribe" in it's body to another folder saves your sanity. It's still a folder you should go through a few times a week to read all the newsletters and shit you're subscribed to, and sometimes the occasional false positive, but your inbox will mostly contain e-mail you actually want to read. I have another rule that filters mail from specific senders that I want to read immediately to my Inbox before it hits the unsubscribe rule, but those exceptions are uncommon enough (I only have 7 after years of doing this) to not take much work.

[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 7 points 17 hours ago

Brilliant tip. Thank you

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

This is a great tip!

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Do you not sign up for any newsletters?

[–] Overspark@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, those go to the "unsubscribe" folder, so I read them less often than my normal mail.

[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

you can use kill-the-newsletter to receive those via rss

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Doesn't work, in my experience.