How many email addresses do you have?

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@evan Wow, 100% of the ... checks vote counts ... 1 people who voted so far voted just ol like me! Woot!

@evan
1 email address. Approximately 350 aliases.

@evan inboxes 3, addresses infinite 😂

@evan these days they go to one of two mailboxes which is nice.

@evan
- 1 address for family/friends
- 2 for business
- 5 from platforms, but they fwd to the main inbox and exist only for those platforms
- a few hundred aliases across 4 domains for any online account (eg. servicename@mailbox.domain.tld for each service/account/newsletter/etc)

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I have a unique eMail Alias for every account I have to sign up for.
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@evan 1000+ 🤷‍♀️

@Bsstahl @evan This is the way 👆

@evan
How many inboxes do you check daily? I forward most of my email to a single master email and can send from those other emails over imap.
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@andresmh @evan I disabled this on my mail server. It is a spam magnet.

@evan Maybe the right question to ask is "how many inboxes do you check regularly?"

3.

@evan

Zero email addresses.

I'm so far off the grid, I'm sparking this message in binary, encapsulated via the entire OSI stack interfering with a nearby router.

#l33t

@evan do aliases count....? @simplelogin

@evan I only use 3 on a regular basis (including my work email) but I have enough others that I use occasionally to push me into the 6 to 15 category.

@evan
One that I use, several old ones still connected to accounts on other services that I either can't or don't have any plans to move over.

For example, I have a paid Battle.net account that I can't access because that email address was shut down, and while waiting for Blizzard support to change it to my current email, I created a free account using an email connected to a Microsoft-account I haven't used for years. And now I can't close that account because Blizzard support never fixed my paid account, so I'm still using the temporary one.

@evan @Em0nM4stodon I have at least 256! email addresses available, because I have a catchall on one domain as customise the email address to each form. Then if I get spam I know who's spamming me and I can block.

@evan I have a few domains I can use any address on them but I mostly use like 2-3 addresses.

@leberschnitzel @simplelogin do they?

@evan @simplelogin if they do, I'm over 200... and since they are all their distinct addresses and not just internal aliases, I'd say they count

@evan I used to have like 25+ 🤣 I now have 2 email addresses, but I need one more because of spam filtering is too tight at iCloud sometimes.

@evan 16 or more, but a single, unified inbox.

I use a custom domain with multiple e-mail addresses, probably hundreds.

I use one unique e-mail address per service/company/website, so that I can track any marketing, spam, and unnanounced data breaches back to their source.

If one gets compromised & I can't close my account or stop using the service for some reason, it's easy enough to change it to another unique address on the same domain and retire the old one.

@evan I have a separate address for every single entity I correspond with. Instant I get spam, they're blocked, and I know who you are...

@evan I check two inboxes (work, everything else, which has a few addresses which forward directly there) and I have a few straggly ones I have access to. I still check the emails for both of my deceased parents because you never know when they'll come in handy. I own enough domains that I guess I have infinite email addresses but I think if I was answering this question asked by some average person and they knew my setup, they'd say "Three" or possible "Four"

@evan 1 account, 2 aliases I use frequently, innumerable limited-use aliases

@evan I have a lot of email addresses but only 3 email accounts.

@evan I said 6-15 because there’s a good chance I’ve forgotten about a few. Every so often I stumble upon one and go “oh yeah!”

@evan Should I count mailboxes that exist, but to which I no longer have access? 😁

@evan I got 4 just from my job… ugh. 😩

@evan
So weird, I wouldn’t let me change from “16” to “2-3” 😅

@evan picture: a titanic corpus of human knowledge rivaled only by those of the great archival institutions of our time... spread across hundreds... thousands... of free tier cloud storage service accounts.

I'm going to use the RFC definition of an email address. I'll say it's mine if only I can read the messages sent to the address (no lists or shared aliases). have one each for personal, work, and school. I have another 3 or 4 for projects I'm involved in, and another 3 or 4 after that for cloud services that give email addresses out for free. Plus I do some aliases for signing into accounts; maybe 10-20. So I'd say 16 or more.

@dneary do you feel like you "have" those addresses?

@evan 2--5 based on which _accounts_ I have, ignoring any automatic aliases following `-` or `+` in the `local-part`

Also, a rant: https://blog.narf.ssji.net/2012/12/11/valid_email_address_characters/

@shtrom the question is addresses, not accounts.

@evan Ah, fair. Definitely way more than 16, then.

Lost count @evan@cosocial.ca

@evan

Not nearly enough

@evan
How do you count "equivalent" email addresses, such as <monnier+FOO@bar.com> where FOO can be anything, or Gmail's "joe@gmail.com = j.o.e@gmail.com"?

@monnier separate addresses. I wouldn't consider all such possible addresses; only those in use

@evan That's an interesting question! I feel like they're mine, but I don't *have* them.