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Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago by Markus29@feddit.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] ji_reilly@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Echoing the base principle I see in other comments: proactively limit what can land in your inbox. I have a rule in Fastmail that only mail from senders in my contacts gets to inbox. If no rules apply, mail ends up in the firewall folder, which I check periodically.

I've been on a big unsubscribe wave for newsletters and notifications that I had previously opted into. If I haven't been reading them within a week, they get dropped. Next step is to resume use of RSS for the topics I want to periodically check up on instead of crowding my email.

The other base principle is to segregate email addresses for personal correspondence and interactions with companies/services/accounts. I've not been good about that out of laziness. That's more about data privacy and while most of my FnF still use gmail it is moot.