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7 hours ago

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I was thinking about this recently as a I work on a new mail client/server. I have one personal email that has a custom domain. 1 that's a plain gmail address and then a variety of random accounts I can't even remember but I guess were legacy or tests for new providers like protonmail. Then there's email address for whatever company you work for at the time. I realise I don't really want to hand out my personal email in a public setting and my company address is mostly for internal stuff. So where's public email?

Are we missing public email accounts? One's that you can just hand out anywhere?

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kevin061

4 hours ago

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I have nearly 2000 aliases via SimpleLogin.

Actual inboxes with their separate username@domain and password? Probably about 20, out of which I only really use around 10 and the rest are dormant or I don't really bother checking.

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Bender

6 hours ago

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How many email accounts do you have?

Unlimited on my self hosted mail servers across a dozen or so domains and up to 600 aliases on Fastmail across several domains. I do not have any that I could hand out anywhere as it would get blasted by junk and I would end up having to remove it unless I filtered on a set of GPG keys or something to that effect.

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KomoD

4 hours ago

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I probably have 10 actual email accounts but I also have a few domains with catch-all.

Then for "hand out anywhere" I just use iCloud aliases that I can disable.