e-mail habits: Do you delete or hoard them ? Do you pay for it? Do you use PGP?

iqaluit

I am usually curious about others' email habits and I appreciate anyone who see this post to comment.
How do you store emails? Do you have a zero inbox policy ?
Do you delete your emails or hoard them until they rot and die in archives and folders ?
Do you pay for an email provider? or Do you use PGP?
What are your thought on email privacy?
Thanks

chemistrelapse

I have a zero inbox policy. I manually sort my inbox into folders, or the archive if its important
I keep all my emails, I don't delete any of them (but I have more than enough storage for my email ten times over). My trash is currently more than hundreds of pages deep. My email archive is also dozens of pages deep.
I pay for Proton, and I use their email aliasing service, simplelogin, to send the vast majority of my emails so I don't really care about PGP. If I need to send something encrypted and important I'll shoot the person a Signal message or email them a Proton drive link.
I pay for my email service... which I presume 99% of people do not, so I do care. But the majority will use Gmail and Outlook which is annoying sending emails, because obviously they scan inboxes, which means they're scanning emails I'm sending. I understand that you can't just switch emails on a whim, but it's annoying that email is federated yet people will only choose either Gmail or Outlook.

iqaluit

@chemistrelapse Interesting ! Thank you for sharing.

Catweazle

I read and delete my mails, some responses from accounts are archived. No such amount of mails to need a paid service

DoctorG

@iqaluit said in e-mail habits: Do you delete or hoard them ? Do you pay for it? Do you use PGP?:

How do you store emails? Do you have a zero inbox policy ?

Mails are sorted by filters into IMAP folders.

Do you delete your emails or hoard them until they rot and die in archives and folders ?

Mails i do not need in future are deleted. Some are archived in such folders.

Do you pay for an email provider?

I use my own paid mail server.

or Do you use PGP?

Yes, Encryption for some receivers, Signature for all.

What are your thought on email privacy?

I miss PGP encrypted mail headers (like Thunderbird has) in my mail client The Bat!.

sjoh

I pay for Tuta.com email. I keep a zero inbox sorted manually, and are only keeping a few important emails. The ones I keep are sorted into folders or kept in an archive. I use Duckduckgo for random email alias. Tuta does not support pgp keys, but has its own encryption.

iqaluit

@Catweazle straight and neat : )

iqaluit

@DoctorG A mail pro, I see : )
I also really want Vivaldi bring pgp and mime signature .. Sigh!

iqaluit

@sjoh @chemistrelapse My use case is similar to both of yours
I use free and paid service. For personal and some confidential emailing fully encrypted paid service including calendar. All the rest goes to free service. (no not gmail) At work I have been known as zero inbox guy as much as I can catch up. If not, I clean up over the weekends. I am a hoarder. I keep emails at least for 10 years including newsletters. I use email forwarding service and most of my emails arrive as PGP encrypted, even some newsletters and my vote is for encrypted vivaldi.net webmail + vivaldi mail client that supports PGP and s/mime as the top priority after security updates.

Shughy

I am a stroke survivor, and new to Vivaldi. For now, I must type using only one finger of my non-dominant hand. (So I try to limit certain interactions, and required keystrokes.)

As a consequence of my present situation, I use gmail and leave all emails in my IN box. (I have not deleted them, or put them into folders. There are a LOT of them right now!)

I started paying for Runbox, but I had trouble keeping it up when I had the stroke, and I lost the account. So right now, I use gmail (because it is free they don't take it away, and they scan it to prevent certain malware.). I would LIKE to get the gmail scanning to decrease malware, and ALSO have my own personalized account.

I don't even know what PGP is, but it sounds like something I would be interested in. Especially for certain emails.

I really like the idea of email privacy, even though for right now I am using gmail. But maybe I will be able to add more privacy protection in the future.

(Right now my goal is to learn to use Vivaldi, and get email and an RSS feed going.)

edwardp

Some e-mail addresses I have with a particular service, I pay for.

@Shughy Welcome to the Vivaldi Community.

iqaluit

@Shughy welcome to Vivaldi forum! There are very experienced power users here. They answer all your questions regarding the browser. There is a lot to learn ( at least for me there was but guidance is ready and available.

As for the cluttered inbox, have you heard email sorting software or have you tried to use one ? You might want to consider to purchase one time service to get re started again, or to subscribe to one for multiple mailboxes if you have many inboxes to clean. It is refreshing to have a clean inbox.

JRockCPhT

My main email gets so much crap that I rarely even go through each one. If I get a notification about something specific I'm engaged in, then I check it. I got a notice from Gmail that I had to buy some more storage or I wouldn't get any more emails lol
I need to clean it out.

iqaluit

https://clean.email

I used it once many years ago. Free trial is enough to put upto 10-20K emails in order. It is the machine that does the job. But if you have a larger inbox you might consider one time payment. If it is too much to do it manuall, I suggest you consider the auto cleaning.

DoctorG

For testing websites which need registration, i do use the inbox of a userdefined mail address at muellmail.com (only for incoming mails).