Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?

I was thinking about this recently as a I work on a new mail client/server. I have one personal email that has a custom domain. 1 that's a plain gmail address and then a variety of random accounts I can't even remember but I guess were legacy or tests for new providers like protonmail. Then there's email address for whatever company you work for at the time. I realise I don't really want to hand out my personal email in a public setting and my company address is mostly for internal stuff. So where's public email?

Are we missing public email accounts? One's that you can just hand out anywhere?

2 points | by asim 4 hours ago

3 comments

  • kevin061 1 hour ago
    I have nearly 2000 aliases via SimpleLogin.

    Actual inboxes with their separate username@domain and password? Probably about 20, out of which I only really use around 10 and the rest are dormant or I don't really bother checking.

  • KomoD 1 hour ago
    I probably have 10 actual email accounts but I also have a few domains with catch-all.

    Then for "hand out anywhere" I just use iCloud aliases that I can disable.

  • Bender 4 hours ago
    How many email accounts do you have?

    Unlimited on my self hosted mail servers across a dozen or so domains and up to 600 aliases on Fastmail across several domains. I do not have any that I could hand out anywhere as it would get blasted by junk and I would end up having to remove it unless I filtered on a set of GPG keys or something to that effect.