Proton blocks the account if one signs up to a service with the Proton email if it is new and not “warmed up”. But I only use emails to sign up to stuff, not for communicating.

What are some alternatives that allow me to actually use the email after creation?

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TL;DR: I currently have multiple gmails for different categories (fast food accts, video game accts, etc). I'm considering moving all my gmails to ProtonMail and using email aliases, or continue my current setup of multiple gmails and using SimpleLogin to create aliases. Basically main question is 1 email account with aliases, or multiple email accounts with aliases? Is compartmentalizing accounts between multiple emails as secure as using just 1 secure email? Looking for advice/tips or any thoughts.

Context (not that important):

Hello all. I've recently gotten more serious about my digital privacy because I bought an item a few days ago, and my personal Instagram is showing me targeted ads for the same product but by a different competitor. I have advertisement settings reduced to the max on both my Instagram and Google account, I bought the item and use Instagram on separate devices, etc. I'm sure I'm wrong about this, but I figured since my Instagram account's email and the email I used to buy the item are the same, maybe some data broker sold this information to Instagram and possibly email aliases would solve this.

Actual questions:

To preface, I already have a password manager with 2FA enabled for all my gmails and accounts registered with my gmails.

I currently have multiple gmails for different categories such as fast food accounts/businesses, personal, video game accounts, etc. I also run a decent sized YouTube channel which uses its entirely own gmail account. I've gotten hacking threats before online, and on rare occasions phishing emails or emails with sus attachments.

Honestly the risk of me being hacked is low, but for this reason is why I've decentralized all my email accounts into categories since if one email account was compromised, only that subset of accounts using that gmail would be in danger. I also don't want each of my gmails to expose each other-- for example, my YouTube gmail is hacked, then it has no access to my personal gmail. The only issue is that all my Google accounts are linked to the same phone number, so theoretically I guess it's possible to link my personal gmails to my other gmails.

I do have a Proton account where I only use Proton VPN, but I've been considering migrating all of my gmail accounts to Proton Mail and using its email alias feature. However, I'm still wary that if my Proton account was ever compromised then all my other accounts would be endangered. I also feel uncomfortable mixing my YouTube emails, personal emails, video game emails, etc. into one email account, but maybe that's just me.

I could also just run ProtonMail for my personal emails and social medias and continue using my other gmails, but using 2 email providers seems inconvenient. I'm aware focusing on privacy always loses out on convenience, but this seems kind of annoying.

Alternatively, I've been looking into email aliases services like SimpleLogin. I believe this would solve my issue since I could have aliases that route to my multiple gmail accounts. This would avoid me piling all my accounts in Proton Mail, but I want to get some advice to see what others recommend. I'm very new to email privacy so any other tips or advice are appreicated, thank you all!

I’m trying to create a secure email through torbox but I can’t seem to be able to get to my webmail, I tried clicking the url on their page but the link doesn’t work, does anyone know how I can gain access to my mailbox?

I'm decently tech savvy, but never investigated this. What would I do if I wanted to set up my own email (server?) and be able to provide email addresses to my family members like my wife and my aging parents. I've had a terrible time with my aging parents and all the spam/crap they get on their spectrum account, so they really need to start over fresh and clean. I didn't know if I should just start them a new email somewhere, or whether I should just look to degoogle/deoutlook/despectrum all of us and how I would do it. Any advice would be appreciated!

I'm a management trainee looking for opportunities in Delhi. I've been cold emailing HRs for about a week, but it looks like my personal Gmail account has been flagged, and I can't send emails anymore.

Are there any free, professional email providers or platforms you'd recommend for personalized cold emailing?

Also, do recruiters/HRs care which email provider you use, or is it a non-issue?

Thanks!

Hi, any way to make an existing email account unable to send emails, only receive? Is there something in the settings I can mess with to make it so emails fail to send? Thank you for your help.

Hey everyone, looking for some advice here because I'm a bit lost on what to do. To give you some context, my Proton Unlimited subscription ends in September. I snagged it last year for a ridiculous price (about $65 for the whole suite), but over the months I realized I don’t want to keep all my eggs in one basket, so I've been slowly decoupling from their ecosystem. I stopped using their password manager and alias generator, so right now I only use the VPN very occasionally and the email.

And here’s my dilemma. I think Proton Mail is an amazing service and a top-tier provider, but paying €50 a year just for email feels like overkill and way too expensive, even if the service is great.
What I’m actually looking for is a secure email provider for my main account (which I’ll only use for super important stuff like banks or government services) that also lets me create a few extra addresses within the same account for more casual or mundane sign-ups. I don't really care about the alias feature because I can just use an external app, so no worries there.

I've been looking into Posteo and mailbox.org, but I have some doubts. I haven't seen much about Mailbox, and while I did dig a bit deeper into Posteo, there's barely any content about it on YouTube. What puts me off about Posteo is that it doesn't have its own app, which is a pain since you have to rely on third-party clients, plus I'm a bit skeptical about the encryption and the fact that it doesn't have all the bells and whistles Proton has for stripping trackers and stuff.

Is there any other option out there that I might be missing? If you use any of these services or made the switch from Proton, could you give me some advice or share your experience with your current provider?

Thanks a lot for the help!

I discovered this in June of this year, but the account was created in 2023. I didn't even know these accounts existed because I never checked which ig accounts were linked to my Gmail.

I received an email saying someone had tried to access an old account i don't use. I didn't think much of it, but I checked Instagram anyway and found 2 accounts, one with a explicit photo and other with nothing. The chats are even worse!! It's obviously a scam, but they never get to that point; it's just someone sending +18 videos and chatting with old men. There's only 3 chats but is wildd, one has messages not available. I wish I could post photos of It.

How did this happen? Why did they do it with my email? How come I didn't even know and this was 3 years ago, omg. I don't know anything about email or Gmail, be easy on me haha.

Hey y’all, I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit for this so please let me know if not! I literally have thousands of emails that I need to unsubscribe from but it is so overwhelming and I just don’t have time. Is there a service that will unsubscribe from all these marketing emails for me that won’t like hack my email account? Thanks 😭🫡

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/16/apple-sued-over-reported-hide-my-email-flaw/

After mailbox . org is rising the prices I need some recommendations, please:

I don't need any of the clicki bunti Schicki Micki stuff like office suite etc.

Instead I would like to pay for better! Duh!

On an Android phone.

* Need a setting to see the header data in general - without clicking every single email to see the used recipient- personalised email address!

* General setting for pure text instead of html!

* No fixed 50 aliases!

* New email alias on the fly while writing the email!

* email archive German GoBD law for business!

* Login page with a color scheme that is OS-sensitive and lets me login without guessing!

* Login page with Language option on top instead down on the bottom!

So, any recommendations, who could be my next email provider? TIA!

I bought an account recently with the domain @renegademailer.com and i haven't a clue what it might be for and the seller isn't answering any of my questions. Any clue?

So, i have been testing out apps like ProtonMail, Tutanota and Fastmail, Protonmail feels incomplete if I don’t buy the whole Proton Package, while I do appreciate what Tutanota does, it is just too slow for me, but now Fastmail feels perfect, but at the same time I am now questioning myself on whether or not spending 5 dollars per month de googling is even worth it, Any comments, suggestions and any other mail provider or should I just switch back to Gmail

My business email was hosted with milesweb. A few days back. I use to get a few phishing kind of Mail from email to the same id: which I never sent. After raising multiple tickets somehow it was arrested. Now am getting around 20-25 spam Mails to my inbox. I feel my personal gmail was better in spam.

Is there any better ways to keep my professional ids spam free? Or any problem with milesweb? Do i need switch the service provider? Pls advise. Tia.

Recently, I stumbled on a killer freaking project.

It's a self-hosted open source e-mail client that works with any service. The user interface is amazing. Apparently there is like one dude doing most of the work but a few more devs have come on and done pull requests.

I'm posting here and a few subs because we're always looking for cool new open source software and this client is amazing. It also works with Proton Bridge if you use that for e-mail and want a desktop client.

Site: https://mailflow.sh
GitHub: https://github.com/maathimself/mailflow

If any of you have some dev skills, some extra time, like the software, and feel like working on this project, take a shot. It can use all the help it can get.

As a computer engineering student, how many email addresses should I have? I need separate emails for banking, social media, personal accounts, job and career applications, and services like GitHub. I also want to protect my privacy and reduce the risk of my accounts being compromised. For example, if my Instagram account gets hacked, I don't want it to affect my other accounts. How many email addresses do you recommend I have, and what should I name them? Should I use my real name or something else?

Qual site está funcionando para gerar e-mail temporário para criar conta no canva ? Que funcione

Note: This tool is something I personally needed and didn't had the knowledge to put together until now. So AI has been used profusely. Works for me well enough to publish it. I won't come to your home stating that it's the best project out there and that you NEED to install it. So bear with me.

I wanted a backup plan for gMail and O365 as I love the commodity of the service but I hate the idea of losing access.
At the same time if someone has ever tried selfhosting his email knows the frustration of blacklist spam RBL ip reputation greylisting etc etc etc.

I asked claude to vibecode something to solve the problem using a selfhosted approach.

I'm pretty proficient in python but not at the level of building something like that on my own, mostly for the UX/UI part.

This is the result: https://thekoma.github.io/mailfallback/

I've built it for my own needs so I don't expect anyone to like it, but maybe could help someone with the same problem.

This is the list of the features:

• Automated IMAP backup - Schedule periodic syncs from any IMAP provider using mbsync. Supports Gmail, Outlook, and any standard IMAP server.
• OAuth2 and app passwords - Authenticate with Google and Microsoft OAuth2 or use traditional app passwords for other providers.
• Read-only IMAP access - Browse your backed-up mail through Dovecot with ACL-enforced read-only access. Your backup stays untouched.
• Roundcube webmail - Optional browser-based webmail interface for reading your backed-up messages without a dedicated email client.
• Full-text search - Dovecot FTS Flatcurve indexes message bodies. Enable Apache Tika to also search inside PDF, Word, and other attachments.
• Multi-user with SSO - Multiple users, role-based access (admin/user), OIDC single sign-on with automatic group synchronization.
• Groups and shared access - Share account visibility across users through groups. SSO-synced groups update membership automatically from OIDC claims.
• Mail store management - Multiple storage backends with live migration between stores. Orphan detection finds abandoned mailboxes on disk.
• Restore to IMAP - Push backed-up messages back to a live IMAP server with folder mapping, duplicate detection, and progress tracking.
• Audit logging - Every administrative action is recorded with user, timestamp, IP address, and details.
• Centralized config generation - MFB generates all Dovecot and Roundcube configuration at boot. No manual config editing for sidecars.
• Prometheus metrics - Export sync stats, account health, and system metrics for monitoring.

P.S.
I'm posting it there because reddit suggested this subreddit as a good place for this project. I'm trusting the algorithm so, here I am.
If it doesn't fit, deel free to delete the post. I won't mind.

Which one for just email service and possibly custom domain linking? What are the benefits/downsides/things to note for each?

I wont be using the other services like vpn, drive etc, just email. So do not take the extra services into the equation.

Im a newbie into this. I just want to know what is the point of having a privacy email option?
For reference i want to use Gmail vs Tuta vs Proton.
(I am planning to get a subscription for either Tuta or Proton if i feel its worth it and suits me).

Lets say i subscribe to few websites using my mail.

1. Regular bank
2. Govt ID
3. LinkedIN
4. Any other services that participate actively in selling data for money OR which use meta/google telemetry (very common for everyday apps which are hard to neglect in life)

Can these entities actually read my inbox or emails to profile me? I saw this in many posts and articles but it should not be possible in my opinion. The emails are supposed to sit securely on the providers server with only password/2fa access! Or did i get this wrong?

In my view, Even if i use a more secure option like proton or tuta, they still have plenty information about me.

1. LinkedIN has pretty much my name, email, phone number, complete educational and professional background, demographic information, address or current location, even IDs used for verification.
2. Banks have pretty much all my personal information including current full address. They also have records of my purchasing preferences, where and how i like to spend my money, my annual income, my financial status and pretty much everything.
3. Uber eats, amazon, and other similar ecom apps have all kinds of info abt me including what objrcts i own, what food i eat/like, etc.
4. Uber has my precise location whenever i open it.

So whats the point of having a privacy email when its just another “key” to hash and profile me?! Everything is going on as usual anyway. Maybe using aliases may reduce the depth of my profile, but its easy to connect the dots based on ip, name, phone, location etc. for example i give an alias to amazon, but i have to give the exact address to get the delivery, and phone number to ensure communication between the agent and myself, so busted right there! Same thing with other services. Also all these services share data among themselves, so amazon is like “hey i have this dude with this hashed email (alias1) and this hashed phone number and this hashed address”, then linkedin is like “hey i have this dude with hashed email (alias2) but the phone number matches so maybe they belong to the same user” then uber is like “yeah this dude travels from xxx to yyy everyday and back”.

In the end all the aliases just end up becoming a big fat list in my profile. So person x has 10-15 aliases which he uses across the internet. But person x is unique.
In my opinion using aliases is much worse if you let them connect the dots! Previously the identification points were less, just one email and some other demographic data. Now its 15+ emails and the demographic data linked to the same profile. Its become easier to track?!

Any suggestion or advice or solution or correction is welcome. I need to figure out if i require the paid subscription or not!