How many email addresses do you use?

Currently, I actively use four.
One for development projects related stuff (based on personal domain), one for an office job I work (provided by employer), a personal Gmail, and another one for all the informal stuff (local email provider). There is also my university email, which I use pretty rarely since I graduated.

How many email addresses do you actively use?

Comments

[Ivan Ray M. Buglosa]

I've been using my main gmail account for almost 10 years now. But there are a lot of emails coming in everyday and its hard to keep track of everything. So I created dedicated email addresses for my freelance work, corporate work, and personal business. In this way, I can easily track everything that comes in each business. What do you think?

[Madza]

Awesome, similar approach that I use 😉

[Ido Barnea]

5
1 personal email
1 work related freelance projects
1 for my day job
1 from the agency I work with
1 for all of my subscriptions and newsletters

[Nitin Reddy]

One and only one😀

[Gagan]

lol, I've 4:
1st- for registering at one time use sites
2nd- for government related links and data
3rd- for bank payments
4th- for official

[SJellen]

2
A main email with alway a zero inbox.
I also have a spam or temp account email.

[Itachi Uchiha]

I use 3 email addresses. I use Gmail since Google releases it.

I also use Yandex.

I use Hotmail Since 2002. Is there anyone to remember windows live spaces?

[Niko Heikkilä]

One for work, one for personal life, and 100+ aliases for different use cases. I use the + aliasing notation (e.g. [e-mail]) whenever I need to give any company my email which leads me to know if that company leaks my email somewhere or otherwise uses it suspiciously.

[Pranav Karawale]

Student here ✋
I currently use 2: my personal Gmail, and my college email

[AlbertoM]

3 personal (1 gmail and 2 outlook) and one gmail for work, provided by my company.

[Srimaniteja]

I use three, one for payments, one for college, one for signing up for sites or apps

[Giorgos Sarigiannidis]

I must have had more than 10-15 over the years, but currently my mail client only has 6. Two of them are the main ones, a GSuite for my business email and a gmail for personal.

[Zohar Peled]

I have two active mailboxes. One personal, and one professional at my employer's domain.

[John Johnson Okah]

I currently use 3 email addresses.

• My first email was many years ago but at a point, it looked too childish for official stuff. 👦
• Then I created another with a combo of my first, last, and middle name. That looked more matured and official for me. 👨‍💼
• Though recently, as I began a startup I created another email for business only. 💼

[Sylvie Fiquet]

I have five.

• professional on gmail for resumes, GitHub, etc
• personal on iCloud: for communication with friends and family
• 3 mailboxes on personal domain, with pretty much an alias per company
  • for buying
  • for personal stuff
  • for career-related stuff

The personal domain mailboxes are the oldest and were set up to deal with spam. I use aliases to protect my email addresses from junk mail. If I start getting a lot of spam on one alias, I know which company has been compromised and I can just delete the alias without impacting emails from other companies.

The only problem with this setting is when people ask me out of the blue "What's your email address?" as I don't have a default one. [Note to self: need to add one]

Nowadays junk goes straight to the junk folder so maybe I don't need this so much.

[sanyalam]

how do you get personal email domain?

[Sylvie Fiquet]

It's a normal web domain I got from gandi. All their domains come with mailboxes. I only got it for the email accounts, I don't use the website.

[Potnuru Shivaji]

I use 4 emails

1. Personal
2. For the sites which I have to visit frequently
3. For the sites which I have to visit only once
4. This one for marketing and promotion one's(Spam)

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

You should use plus addressing on GMail - can effectively use as many addresses as you like - handy for signing up to stuff if you expect spam. You can simply filter those out easily - i.e. [e-mail] gets delivered to [e-mail]

[Potnuru Shivaji]

Wow !!!! thanks for the Advice, I just learned new thing......