How many email addresses do you guys use? Ignoring your corporate email.
I have my own domain and I was considering setting up 6 email addresses for different purposes. Personal, work, giveaway, internet accounts, old accounts and domain registrations. But then I realized I might as well have 2: personal and domains.
What is wisdom? What do you guys do?
personal, school, work and one for registrations
personal, school and two extras. but I have more than 20 emails that i don't use.
i've created so many new ones over the years that i lost count. i have like 5 main ones that i switch around with. i don't like having everything linked to one email.
Email addresses really are a curse.
I remember I registered my name and lastname with gmail and outlook.com in case I ever needed them. But I never used them ever. But I don't want to delete them either because some products require gmail and outlook accounts.
I own several domains and have 4 email accounts (personal suff, work related, uni related and trash)... And also a gmail one and two trash yahoo addresses for porn
You should be using Protonmail for porn desu.
Nig I got like 20 or 40 running around, but 80% of what I use is 1 personal and one for my internet-persona
Excluding work, just one with my actual name for important shit and one with an old handle for not important shit
3.
one for important stuff,
one for hobbies and friends,
one for junk.
4.
One Protonmail for more personal stuff that is tied to my name and credit card. Like Paypal and what have you.
One Gmail for more generic shit like newsletters and stuff like that.
One Cockli as a glorified disposable mail.
Another Gmail for sending job applications.
>I have my own domain and I was considering setting up 6 email addresses for different purposes.
Don't host your own email.
Why would you want newsletters?
two. one in my own name and one for trash
i forward everything except corporate to my main gmail. makes things easy.
I've got my own domain and one main email address, but everything sent to the domain goes to that one mailbox anyway, which then gets filtered.
So my main address is like [email protected]
Then I'll just use [email protected] for buying general stuff online. Don't need to set it up, just make up an email address for any time I might want to.
Mostly for sales.
But I also use it for stuff like hobbies and social media(that isn't tied my my real name). Basically anything that is important enough to keep an email and account for, but that doesn't involve to many personal details.
I'm not hosting it. I only set some mx, dkim and spf records.
one personal, and other one for random shit.
do porn sites support gpg?
I use three.
>[email protected]
Old email. There's like 30k messages in the inbox. All newsletters and bullshit.
>[email protected]
New email. Migrating everything over to this now.
>[email protected]
Work.
It's so stupid easy to run your own email server. Literally a $5 vps, like an hour per month of maintenance. If you're not retarded it just werks.
Found the tech illiterate.
Why?
Is it easy to get the self-hosted email address to use an existing domain name you own?
Ignoring corporate:
1) Personal / semi-professional
2) Personal / spam
3) Personal / throwaway
4) School
Yes. That's the only way to do it, actually. Google "ISPmail tutorial", get a vps on Linode or DigitalOcean or something, and go from there.
What if the domain is being used for another server?
e.g. I have imafag.com pointing at my webserver at IP 1.2.3.4. If I host a mailserver on 2.3.4.5, can I use [email protected]? Or would I be forced to host the email on the same server as the website?
No, lern2dns. You point A records to your web server's IP, and you point MX records at your mail server.
One for "important" stuff (with my name on it)
Two for private trackers
One for the rest of the shit
Thanks. I guess I'll host them both in the same place then.
Not him, but from the minor research I've done it's pretty labour intensive to learn how to get an e-mail server running and then also continually apply security updates. E-mail was invented in 1972, and as a result has had a lot of security flaws found and patched etc..
I have one email that I use for everything. Plus one mostly unused address that acts as the recovery for my main.
5 or 6.
One for signing up to MMOs and shit
One for real shit
One for semi real shit
One for apple (didn't plan on this happening but it just did)
One that I created as my first email and have a few accounts still tied to
One for YouTube and Google Drive and whatever other Google services I use
Think I have more but I don't know until I find I need it. I definitely have 3 or 4 yahoo accounts but I totally forgot them now.
If you follow a guide, server will be up in an hour.
>patches
apt-get install unattended-upgrades
That'll literally automagically install all new security patches as soon as they become available. Don't be dumb.
Personal
Work
Freelance
Junk registration
Can't really say I see the need for anything else
Why does every email today either want my phone number or an email address (that also wants my phone number)?
I know the answer and it's not security.
I'm saying you don't have to. You can point your domain's A record (this is for web) to any ip you want, and your MX records to any other ip you want.
More like unintended-upgrades and installing random shit, and having your in-production servers randomly go down on you.
Keep your upgrades manual and controlled, Anons.
Oh, I thought you were answering no to my first question. That's awesome then, thanks again :>
Like 4.
2 personal, 2 school, one work, one professional
Web server = a records and cname records
Email = mx records and txt records
They are entirely separate.
1
[email protected] for everything
A catchall rule routes all other email for the domain to a folder in my inbox so I can create throwaway addresses as necessary.