Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security
by r3trohack3r on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:34AM
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I’ve been really happy with ProtonMail. I use their professional account with a catch-all email address on my domain, and I give each vendor I interact with their own dedicated email address (I.e. [email protected], [email protected], etc.)
It lets me track who is sharing my email address and gives me control over that (set up simple filter to automatically delete any email received at [email protected] when I start getting spam on it).
It’s been really effective - such a part of my day-to-day flow now I can’t go back.
The transition was pretty painless. I setup an email forward from gmail to my proton inbox using [email protected], every email I received at that address I’d go update my contact information with. After a bit, I was able to turn off the forwarding. Basically the classic strangulation pattern for microservice migrations applied to email.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security
by mkl on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:24AM
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That sounds pretty good. I do something similar but use POP and Thunderbird, which I'm looking to move away from. Does ProtonMail automatically set the From address when you start writing an email to a company you have a dedicated address for?
It lets me track who is sharing my email address and gives me control over that (set up simple filter to automatically delete any email received at [email protected] when I start getting spam on it).
It’s been really effective - such a part of my day-to-day flow now I can’t go back.
The transition was pretty painless. I setup an email forward from gmail to my proton inbox using [email protected], every email I received at that address I’d go update my contact information with. After a bit, I was able to turn off the forwarding. Basically the classic strangulation pattern for microservice migrations applied to email.