Thinking of starting media creation, want to have an email address dedicated to that purpose. Don’t want to go with Gmail as I’d like to phase Google out of my life, amd Protonmail seems i correct for this because it largely wouldn’t be encrypted mail.
Recommendations?
Hmm, I’m not sure what you expect… if an email service sends in the clear, the only place that can be fixed is at the service itself.
Having the inbox for these accounts encrypted would seem to be important though, so that you can maintain control of them.
I don’t care if messages are encrypted at all in this case, the entire reason I mentioned encryption is to say “I don’t need the feature this service is most known for.”
Ah, I see, I misinterpreted your original post.
Well in any case, the email will probably be the recovery path for the accounts you set up (“I forgot my password”), so if you want to stay in control of them you should pick a service that encrypts the inbox.
You might also find subaddressing useful. For example, if you have [email protected] and you then use [email protected], and later that email subaddress gets exposed and you start getting spam specifically through it, then you know which account was exposed (the pixelfed one) and can attempt to address it individually. Basically the +alias lets you know the source(s) of incoming emails because you know where you’ve used that alias. Many services support this feature.
I think I see why you misinterpreted it, I made a typo. “Incorrect” came out as “I correct.”
I would hope that all services store their data encrypted; a service that stores customer email in plaintext shouldn’t have survived the Obama administration.
As for subaddressing, I’m aware of that idea but…surely so are bad actors. Surely it’s just a quick bit of regex to remove any subaddresses from a list of email addresses you just compromised to cover your tracks.