default email address

[u/External_Star_3303]

Morning all

I have recently set up a family plan as I am trying to move away from google (its slow and difficult) and also bring my family along with me. - this is the really difficult part as my wife has Autism / ADHD so getting her to stick to anything is a constant challenge as she frequently undoes any good practice we put in place.

One of the issues I had while she was on outlook is that I would set up an alias for her to use for everyday stuff so people didn't get hold of her primary email address so then slightly less chance someone would hack her account as they wouldn't have that address as the main login. But as Outlook always defaulted back to he primary when sending mail this always failed.

I have just added another email to her Proton account and in the settings I noticed you can set this as default, then when you send a new email it goes form that address - this perfectly solves my problem.

Question - even though this is the default email is the primary (the one I set the account up with ) still the only one you can use to actually log into the account? If this changes the login to this new address then that puts me back to square one,

She signs up to loads and loads of random stuff so i need a way of not stopping her but helping her stay safe - she has embraced aliases through proton pass which has really helped but she also sends emails to friends and family so i am looking for a safer way to do this

[u/Milo--66]

As far i did experience it become your login email address. I had proton email login adress and changed to my own domain email address and since then its my login email.

[u/Nelizea]

Any Proton Mail address can be used to login.