This is super basic but I need to find a better email option (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by FastEddieB@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Not that many people use email much anymore, but as you often need an email address to sign up for other shit... anyway, I need a better option than gmail, I'm sure you can appreciate why. Email is so old school at this point that most of the time I don't even think about it anymore.

Anyway, I need some email options that aren't gmail or otherwise attached to a billionaire. I'm not really interested in non-email methods of communication, I'm specifically asking about email.

Thanks in advance.

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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

While we're at it, anyone got a good site for temporary addresses that are basically used exactly once? And ideally don't immediately get flagged as spam addresses.

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

To DIY you can buy your own domain and attach it to any paid email provider, then you get an infinite amount of temporary addresses. e.g. if you own @ rumschlumpel.blahblahblah.org then you can create abc@ , xyz@ , abc123@ , etc. as much as you like.

Just about all the email provider suggestions in this thread have a paid tier that you can configure your own domain with.

[-] quirzle@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago

To add to this, Bitwarden integrates with a few of them so you can automatically generate a unique email on the fly when creating an entry for a site. (docs link)

I use Fastmail and use my own domain for about 90% of stuff. Sites I don't even want to have my domain get a random.gibberish@fastmail.com email autogenerated from the BW extension. It's pretty convenient once all setup.

For literal one-time use, I've generally had good luck with 10minutemail. I'm not sure how much it gets flagged as spam right away these days, but the nice thing about it being free is you can always try and find out for a particular site.