I’ve got two domain names set up for work and personal email, but I’m absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000. Most are those annoying notifications like “Your security code is xxx,” “Your parcel has shipped,” and requests to rate my experience.

Right now, I’ve been trying out Inbox Zero with an old Gmail account. It’s cool, but honestly feels a bit overkill and only works with Gmail and Outlook. I switched to my own domains to get away from Google in the first place!

So, I’m on the hunt for an email provider that has solid SPAM filters and can create a priority inbox without all the pesky notification clutter. Bonus points if it supports custom domains.

Any suggestions?

  • carrylex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    175·
    1 day ago

    but I’m absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000

    WTF are you doing with your e-mail address that you get these amounts of mails. These are more mails than I got in the last decade.

    At first maybe try to unsubscribe whatever you subscribed and stop putting your address into random services. Use a temporary mail for stuff like that.

    Also mail filters can help with sorting mails from certain senders into folders. Bascially every provider has them and if not programs like Thunderbird have these built in on the client side.

    Most are those annoying notifications like “Your security code is xxx,” “Your parcel has shipped,” and requests to rate my experience.

    Uhm simply delete them when you e.g. inputted the code or got your parcel? Or change the settings that you no longer get them?

    So, I’m on the hunt for an email provider that has solid SPAM filters…

    Under your circumstances no provider in the world can do that, because nobody can determine if your “Your security code is xxx” mail is spam or legitimate… YOU have to determike that for yourself.

    • Markus29@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I have no idea, it’s an old email I used for a lot of services before I knew about email aliases like Mozilla relay.

      Like I said, most of them are useful once, like a shipping notification or a sign in security code. But most of the time I just copy the code from the desktop notification and leave the email. I don’t know why so many services moved from a password based login to email security codes, it’s annoying that’s for sure.

      I’ll try to set up some filters to delete them after a day.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      Don’t unsubscribe, just send to spam. Unsubscribe just confirms you’re a real person and you get put on a list for more spam. Spam folder achieves the same thing without sending any sort of signal back to the sender. Also if enough people flag it, it’ll go in my spam folder automatically. Thank you for your service.

      • carrylex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 hours ago

        When you’re getting notifications/newsletters from legitimate platforms like e.g. Amazon or GitHub it’s smarter to unsubscribe from these specific mails. Otherwise you will be screwed when some important mail somehow ends up in the spam folder.