Best way to prevent spam mail on new email address ?

[Red Squirrel]

I think it's ridiculous that simply going to a bad site can even cause all your contacts to be leaked in first place, browsers really need to be designed to be more secure and not have so much code execution capabilities or at very least there should be some kind of built in sandbox so code can't touch anything outside of the download folder.

 

[pcslookout]

I just started using https://leemail.me/ but the problem is the email it gives are so random there hard to remember when logging into a site again. Oh well.


Would it be better to just use a different email for different things? Like have a main email you rarely use just for family members and friends. Email for forums. Email for signing up for companies. So on?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Historically speaking, of the custom mailboxes based on domain names I own, two have become compromised by agents of disrepute. I killed those mailboxes and doing businesses with those entities. All other compromises were by interaction with others whose home systems were already compromised. As far as free mailboxes (e.g. Gmail), their wonderful Spam filtering is a mix bag, but I can't really consider those I cannot control. Now take into account I have ~150 mailboxes and I would say I am doing pretty good.

 

[Carson Dyle]

If someone has an email address that they've been using for various online registrations for many years and claims that they get no spam to that address, then I'd say the mail server's spam filtering must so aggressive that it's guaranteed to be blocking or filtering valid messages.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I do not doubt that Google uses a very aggressive filter mechanism to handling spam, but that is the only occurance in which I've used a mailbox for more than one site. All other sites using my personal mailboxes on my various domains are strictly one-site use mailboxes.