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This is super basic but I need to find a better email option (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by FastEddieB@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Not that many people use email much anymore, but as you often need an email address to sign up for other shit... anyway, I need a better option than gmail, I'm sure you can appreciate why. Email is so old school at this point that most of the time I don't even think about it anymore.

Anyway, I need some email options that aren't gmail or otherwise attached to a billionaire. I'm not really interested in non-email methods of communication, I'm specifically asking about email.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] thistledown@rblind.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Tuta mail. It is entirely open source. There are both paid and free tiers. I started on a paid tier, then downgraded to free. I like the option of a usable free tier when money is tight. I use addy.io for aliases.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do you use email aliases or what do you find them useful for? I've played around with generating unique aliases for different websites I use, but I'm not sure I did anything useful with that setup. Normally, if I get spam I usually just hit the unsubscribe link and that's been sufficient. Currently, I just have 2 emails: one I use for businesses and such and one for random websites that I don't care too much about. Is having more aliases better?

[–] thistledown@rblind.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

If an alias receives spam, I can deactivate it. Future mail addressed to that alias will not forward to my email inbox. In essence, stop the flow of water instead of repeatedly mopping around the leak. Also, I am wary of malicious unsubscribe links.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An alias can be used to see who is selling your address. If you give address B to only one organization and you get spam on B, then you know B sold your address.

Not exactly the most useful information, but it's there.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, yeah. That's why I'm wondering if I'm missing something... Like, cool. I know B sold my address... now what? I guess it's a neat metric to know?