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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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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (49 children)

Get a proton mail. The complete plan not only supports custom domains, they also let you create unlimited alias.

This is the best thing ever. Alias work with custom domains too and they basically give you an endless amount of single-use emails allowing you to sign to each service/website with a different email (that will then be forwarded to your inbox).

This not only leaves your real email safe and unexposed, but it also lets you organize your inbox more tidily if your aliases have a structure and you use email rules for them (e.g. you can create aliases for your shipping stuff called [website].shipping@[myalias].com and then make a rule including all the adresses .shipping to a specific folder).

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (41 children)

Everyone suggests proton and their whole infra just makes me sus. Just because of how much they are the "go to" alternative.

Maybe I'm paranoid. But I feel like these companies that focus on "privacy" are just not as good as we all assume.

It's like all the YouTube sponsored segments of "Ingogni". It just makes me feel like these companies that sell "privacy" are just consolidating data on the people that are worried about their privacy.

This is less a comment about proton I guess. But, incogni, is sus as fuck. Like, really, "give us all your personal info and we'll "scrub" it from the internet, trust us."

Are they sharing your emails. Probably not. But I just don't really trust anything.

Edit: lots of strong responses. Which I appreciate. But, my comment was more "vibes" based on Proton. But I'll take a stand on these "Ingogni" types services. I think they are sus as fuck.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Why would they be sus? They're a Switzerland based company which means really good privacy laws in regards to keeping your data out of the wrong hands. They're not going to monetize your emails or information, which is a big deal!

Incogni, you're right, give us your data so we know what to scrub? No thanks lol. Feels like the wrong approach lol

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