Hello folks, Would you recommend to have different email accounts for work and private life ? When would you use a fake email generator and when would you proton mail? Trying to learn more about privacy. Thanks a lot

Any ideas for a personal email address that doesn't contain any personal information but still sounds semi-professional?

Hi! I don't know if this is the correct place, but is the /r that can be most close.

I've my custom domain, and suppose that is "myname.com". Furthermore, I've some self-hosted services, like a blog, my webpage, n8n, Plausible, Home Assistant... and the idea is that this services use a specific email to send emails. My domain provider gets me only 1 custom email for free, but as you can send an email "as another email", my idea is to configure the SMTP with this main free email, and set "from:" in every service. For example, for my blog, I send emails as "[email protected]", for my HA, "[email protected]" ... Of course, this emails only can send emails, but not receive.

But... I want to use the main email for my personal communication, mostly for "serious" emails like work or professional stuff. So, my question is, taking into account that the domain have my name, and I'm not a company, but just a person, what would be a good "name" for this email? [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]...

Thanks in advance for your ideas!

Edit: thanks to all for your comments! I think the best way will be use "contact@..." as main address (more general) and then maybe just pay for a dedicated email server to use all the other addresses.

Edit2: after all the comments, I checked the options for my mail service, and I found that I can create "redirects", that is a new email address but without dedicated space, so with this I can redirect this addresses to my main address. I didn't know this functionality, and I though to receive (accept) emails to an address you need to have a dedicated space. So, many thanks again to all :)

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to figure out the best way to manage my personal email setup and wanted some input.

Right now, I have a Gmail account from work, but that’s mainly for office stuff. I’m about to buy a new iPhone and will be setting up iCloud for the first time. My idea was to use my personal Gmail as my main email for everything (socials, banking/finance, job portals, memberships, etc.) and just keep the iCloud email as the recovery/backup or might use this as my main (Can't decide)

I’ll also make sure 2FA is enabled on all important accounts and be cautious about where I share my email.

Does this sound like a good setup, or is it smarter to split things up (like one email for banking, another for social, etc.)?

Also curious — what’s your setup like? Do you mainly use Gmail or iCloud? And how many personal accounts do you maintain?

Trying to improve my cybersecurity. Since I’m on social media, my name is clearly visible to anyone on the internet. At first I thought making a personal email with my first and last name was logical. But now as I have more knowledge about online privacy now, I see this as a security risk. My personal email is literally [email protected]. No spaces or anything else added. So really if anyone wanted to they could guess my email pretty easily.

From a professional perspective, people like to see a email address that’s their full name. It looks yk…”professional.” So do you think it’s wise to switch my personal email to a work related/ professional email?? Honestly this will probably be very difficult to do but I see it as worth it if it protects my privacy.

I'm currently in the process of switching my accounts to Simple Login. Recently, I had to give out an e-mail address to a potential employer, and I found out I really have no idea on what I should give them.

I was lucky enough to get a domain that makes my personal e-mail address look professional as hell. However, I have found that I don't really know who I want to give it out to. I am using Proton for my personal inbox, so I could create an address like [email protected] that would point to my inbox, but that may sound a little pretentious. I could also set up a subdomain for SL, but then what does it say? I don't want a HR person to freak out when they see "[email protected]", plus I think that subdomains look a little stupid in e-mail addresses.

I also have no idea what to do when I'll eventually get to changing the e-mail address linked to my bank account or the one my doctor has.

I think the question kind of boils down to:

• "What will this person do with my e-mail?",

• "Will an attacker extract my address from our e-mail conversation in case of a leak?" and

• "Does this even matter if I'm using aliases for all my accounts?"

and I don't have the answers. My personal e-mail address is brand new and so far noone really has it, so I can do a lot for my privacy if I don't screw this up, but I just don't know what to do.

So, if you use e-mail aliasing, what's your strategy?

I also posted about this to r/Simplelogin here.

I'm feeling insecure about the fact that my e-mail, and therefore almost my entire digital life, is dependant on the whims of the corporation that is providing the service. If they were to go out of business or just decide to shut down their service, there would be absolutely nothing I could do.

Therefore, I have decided I would like to host my own e-mail. However, the first step is, of course, choosing a domain name.

[firstname][lastname].com is taken, and although there are some great new TLDs I am set on .com so as to cause minimal confusion and lost emails. So I'm wondering if anyone who selfhosts their email could share how they came up with a good domain they'll be comfortable using for the rest of their lives, which is what I want to do.

EDIT: Thank you very much everyone for your helpful advice, it is much appreciated!

Hi guys! I have been thinking of buying a domain for both personal and professional email (different aliases) and a future portfolio.

Unfortunately, my name is pretty common in Italy and the best domains are already registered. I even wrote to the owner of firstlast.com but he didn't reply me back. If he ever will, i will probably buy it.

I have searched a lot and these are the best available domains i have found:

• flast.com It's not my full name, but i find it acceptable and professional. .com is a no-brainer.

• firstlast.net I find .net to be outdated. Even though i will probably end up working in the tech industry, i don't want my email to be linked to that.

• firstlast.email Having a professional email is my main objective, but this would limit a future website. Also, .email can be confusing to some.

• firstlast.fl My initials are AC and there is a .ac extension. It's personal and creative, but someone could find it unprofessional and confusing. Also, it costs 3x more all the other domains.

  • Using .ac i could also do last.fl and the email would be [email protected].

• I don't like .me domains.

I am probably overthinking this, but i want to make the right decision and keep the same email for the rest of my life. Hoping you guys could help me figure out what's the best option. Thank you!

PS. English isn't my first language. If you spot any mistake please tell me :)

This is for folks out there not relying on gmail or similar, nor running their own mail server somewhere.

I have bought a domain as part of starting to develop my professional portfolio. I am looking for a straightforward, solid provider I can either point my MX records to and create a mailbox, or forward emails on to a gmail or similar.

I used to run Postfix and qmail servers back in the day for myself but that is far in excess of what I want to do now. Any recommendations for a solid provider?

Or what is the best way to create an email address

I am an Apple user, all my devices are, so I used to have gmail and I recently switched to iCloud, even though I have had a good experience I would like to know what email you use and why? And some recommendations.

I'm about to create a custom domain with my name on Porkbun. I'm going with First Initial LastNameMail .com.

My last name is already taken. So JSmithmail.com

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to figure out the best way to manage my personal email setup and wanted some input.

Right now, I have a Gmail account from work, but that’s mainly for office stuff. I’m about to buy a new iPhone and will be setting up iCloud for the first time. My idea was to use my personal Gmail as my main email for everything (socials, banking/finance, job portals, memberships, etc.) and just keep the iCloud email as the recovery/backup.

I’ll also make sure 2FA is enabled on all important accounts and be cautious about where I share my email.

Does this sound like a good setup, or is it smarter to split things up (like one email for banking, another for social, etc.)?

Also curious — what’s your setup like? Do you mainly use Gmail or iCloud? And how many personal accounts do you maintain?

Hey folks,

I’m looking to ditch my GMail in favor of something more privacy oriented, like ProtonMail.

I’m wondering if I should do it right and buy custom domain address and use it with the email provider?

I would be happy to listen for pros and cons.

Thanks!

I've read a lot of posts concerning privacy and email providers and there is various providers that seems to be good freeware alternatives to gmail (protonmail, tutanota, disroot, mailfence, openmailbox, ...). Tutanota for example seems to be pretty good, but my main concern is that all of these services exists for less than 10 years and it may be a problem if they cease to exist after a short period of time and then I lost all of my emails as well as become unreacheable for people that have only my then nonexistent email address. Are there another alternative email providers or any way I can have more trust that the service will still exist in the next 5 or 10 years?

I noticed that a lot more people are not using their own domain for email address. It's must in book to get a domain and honestly doesn't cost much.

Just curious on why people are using gmail or what ever free email they get.

I’m looking into options for a domain name for my personal email. The .com TLD for my first and last name is taken so my options are listed below:

• @FirstLast.net

• @FirstLast.us

• @FirstLast.me

Another option is reversing my name, where the .com TLD is available:

• @LastFirst.com

Since my name starts with an A, I can also use @ in place of it:

• @irstLast.com

Any other suggestions would be helpful!

Is there some kind of convention to be followed here? Clearly admin or webmaster work for a site.

But what about when it's for personal email and as an alternative to using [email protected]?

Hi all!

I've been thinking about setting up a personal email address I can use (for now) with Proton Mail that's versatile and not tied to any specific email client. The idea is to use it for all non-work related matters, providing me with flexibility when switching email clients. However, I'm having a hard time deciding on the right domain name.

My current thought is to go with the format [email protected]
as it conveys the idea of a 'general' personal email address, but the disadvantage is that this TLD isn't very common (although it is very simple).

How did you decide what domain to pick for your private, personal email domain? What considerations should I keep in mind when choosing a domain name? Any suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Hi,

Just wondering, how everyone goes about managing their personal email accounts?

Currently, I'm using Outlook for important mail, such as 'friends, family, etc', and Gmail for Bills, shopping, newsletter and general spam. I'm wondering if I should move Bills with my main Outlook account, or should I just forward those messages?

I'm using Apple Mail as a client for my main account. Tho Gmail doesn't support push notifications if I was to add it.

Thanks